How can you check a sites traffic?
 

Ok, so I've had a text link rotation on a site for a few weeks now that has been bringing in a lot of traffic for my sites. The link cost me $130 for a month, 30 gallery links. They claim 30-60,000 visits a day.

Recently, I bought thumbnail links on two sites for $300 a month. They claim their two sites combined get 300,000 visits a day, yet I'm not even getting a 3rd of the traffic I am with the other sites.

I smell bullshit and I want to find out if the sites get the traffic they claim but alexa wont come up for me and I'm not aware of any other tools..

do they have a toplist on the sites?

It can give you an idea about the traffic.

http://www.alexa.com/ click on Traffic Ranking then enter site link then click get traffic details

alexa would be a way

Don't you have a traffic managemetn script?


Egomancer

Alexa only really works for people who have installed the Alexa toolbar. It's not an absolutely realistic figure, although it's entirely possible they're guessing the percentage of people on the planet who have installed their software and then multiplying by that.

The absolute truth is it's impossible to tell another site's traffic load without having access to their own logs, or the logs of their ISP. Alexa is better than nothing, however.

Babsy,

You're correct, but Alexa has it's toolbar on enough machines that it can predict accurately within a 95% confidence interval (stats talk, sorry) that the numbers are correct. It's kind of like the election polling statistics. They don't poll the whole country, just enough to make their results statistically accurate.

In one given day, variations could cause it to over or under-report numbers, but if you look at weekly/monthly averages it should be a representative number.

-AdultAds

Alexa is the way to check the traffic for a specific site, but also you can add a tracking code at the end of your galleries to know how much traffic exactly you received from them.... Try http://www.statcounter.com.. It`s easy to use and give you very realistic traffic statistics.... :thumbsup

exactly

buying traffic and not getting any stats is fucked up - stupid as well

PS we have www.blalblatesttest.com has 5 mln hits per hour wanna buy a textlink there for 100k? :1orglaugh

Alexa as some cool information about sites ;)

ask to see there webilizer.

get in the server and take a look a the logs

get in the server and take a look a the logs

wow that was cool I think the board is gone wrong hahaha

My first thought. It's also the reason I only buy traffic from certain sources.

That is absolute bullshit. Alexa get's my numbers wrong as in WAY Wrong all the time.

The best you can do really is to count the impressions on your own galleries and banners (host the banners). There are a number of ways to get that done. You could use a third party such as sex tracker or apply your own php or javascript counter. You could also buy a statistical package.

Glad someone said it... we all know that "poll" numbers are completely accurate too. :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

Check Alexa

Check out Alexa Traffic Ranks mate.