What Tools Can I Use to Estimate Website Traffic?

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Pat Flynn

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4.9 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2016

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Today's question comes from Corey, who has a question about the right tools for estimating website traffic. What are the best tools I can use to estimate web traffic of my competitors? Are there other things I should be looking at for website rankings, traffic, and the like? In this episode, I mention a few great analytics tools, including Alexa at http://www.alexa.com/, SEM Rush at http://www.semrush.com/, and http://www.similarweb.com/. Do you have a question about finding the right tools for estimating website traffic? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/.

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0:00.0	AskPath.
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0:06.7	Dot com.
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0:09.0	AskPaths.
0:10.0	Hey, what's up everybody?
0:11.9	Patlin here and welcome to episode 719 of Ask Pat.
0:15.5	Thank you so much for joining me today.
0:17.0	As always, I'm here to help you by answering your online business questions five days a week.
0:21.3	All right.
0:21.8	Now, here's today's question from Corey.
0:24.3	Hi, Pat.
0:25.6	I've been trying to, I've been looking at competitors' websites, and I've been trying to estimate the amount of traffic that goes to those websites.
0:34.4	And I found some free online tools and whatnot whatnot but the estimates vary quite a bit from
0:42.3	estimating tool to estimating tool. So I was wondering if you had a recommended or suggested
0:48.3	technique or more reliable technique to come up with how much traffic was going to a particular website. Thanks.
0:56.9	Hey, Corey, what's up? Thank you so much for the question. And I do agree with you. A lot of
1:00.5	these tools are out there to help you find traffic for other people's websites. And a lot of
1:06.5	them spit out a lot of different information. So I'm going to give you a couple quick tips and maybe a
1:11.2	couple tools that I'll share with you that I use to estimate and see what other people's traffic
1:17.1	is like. The first thing I want to mention is that sometimes you can get an idea, not for website
1:21.7	traffic, but for just how popular another website is by looking at sites other than Google or looking at Google
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