Before you start promoting your own, especially corporate website, you need to conduct a complete market analysis, study the main competitors and make a unique selling proposition. Of course, you can try to succeed in the field of online activity without serious preparation, but this will be the exception rather than the rule. Webmasters often start by evaluating competitor traffic. In the Internet environment, you can see site statistics (of your own or someone else's) in various ways.
Google Analytics Attendance Counter Score
You can view Google Analytics site statistics only if the resource is your own. Itās impossible to evaluate the attendance of competitors using one of the most common counters. That is why Google Analytics is often installed on new sites, while the resource has nothing to brag about.
For your own website, Google Analytics is a great choice. Many webmasters say with confidence that the service is the most advanced in its segment. It gives you the opportunity to find out the main sources of traffic, set special parameters, track the time to conversion, and much more interesting and useful. In addition, the installation of Google Analytics makes it possible to further connect other useful services of the giant corporation, for example, the Google Adsense advertising network or the Google Webmaster webmaster tools.
Yandex Metric as a source of competitor information
View site statistics on Yandex is somewhat easier, but possible only in cases where Metrica is installed on the resource of interest. Information can be displayed graphically in the footer of the site. By clicking on the rectangular frame with the parameters for the last day, week, month and year, or simply with the up or down arrow (depending on the dynamics of the resourceās positions), you can see the siteās statistics. "Metric" shows how many total views, visits and visits. All this information is available only if a Yandex counter is installed on the site.
LiveInternet Statistics
The method is similar to viewing statistics using Yandex tools. The LiveInternet icon is located at the bottom of the resource page and can have a different look: arrow of attendance dynamics or specific parameters for a certain period of time.
You can view site statistics on the LiveInternet portal itself. By default, ratings show leaders. To display resource data from this list, click on āSite statisticsā, highlighting the line of interest. Statistics show:
Additionally, according to these data, you can calculate the viewing depth: the average number of views should be divided by the number of visitors.
If the resource of interest is not in the leaderboard, you can simply copy the site address and paste it into the search bar on LiveInternet. You will not be able to view data on Internet resources that are not registered on LiveInternet, or those that require an administrator password to access statistics.
How to see attendance on Wix
The fairly popular Wix site builder offers convenient display of page statistics for webmasters who own resources. You wonāt be able to see site statistics on Wix, unless, of course, we are talking about someone elseās resource, but you can use Yandex Metrica - the designer suggests installing this service on the site.
Evaluation of competitor statistics on Ucoz
You can view Ucoz site statistics, as is the case with Google Analytics, only having access to the resource admin panel. Of course, it is possible to examine the resource data if open counters from Yandex or LiveInternet are installed on it. To do this, use the appropriate instructions.
So, you can see the site statistics on Ucoz by the guest password, but for this you need to get access from the administrator. With the data received from the owner or moderator of the resource, you can go to the admin panel, where all statistics are available. At the same time, the āvitalā functions of the site will not be available to the guest: changing the email address associated with the account, or other large-scale changes.
Attendance Plugins
To view site statistics, you can also use special plugins that are installed in the browser as add-ons and work in the background. Such software is produced both by more or less large companies, and by individual enthusiasts - programmers, developers, promotion specialists in search engines, and so on.
The most popular plugin that allows you to view site statistics is called RDS Bar. The addonās loud slogan (āSEO is warā) suggests the power and information content of the plugin, which is quite true. The supplement gives a lot of information: from traffic analysis to the number of pages indexed by the search engine. There are versions of the plugin for all major browsers, but, as practice shows, RDS Bar gets along best with Mozilla Firefox.
Another good solution is PageRank Status. This addon uses Alexa rankings to compile statistics on visits. Information is presented in a convenient visual design.
A similar addition is a similar service from LiveInternet, which allows you to view the necessary information literally āin one clickā. The only negative is that it only works with resources registered in the system of the same name.
Specialized Internet Services
Other tools that allow you to comprehensively analyze competitors are notable for their speed and frequent statistics updates. Online services better adapt to changing conditions of resource attendance than individual small programs.
The main resources that allow you to find out information about competitors, knowing the website address, are the following: Bravica.net, Seranking.ru and Similarweb.com. These are the most informative tools with a wide range of functions.
Other online services often give errors or the message āstatistics are currently unavailableā, use outdated databases or have such a narrow set of capabilities that it is not possible to analyze statistics comprehensively.
An alternative way to know the attendance of a resource
If for some reason the developers carefully hide the attendance of their own resource from prying eyes, you can still see the siteās statistics, but in a slightly different, alternative way. So to say, ābypassingā.
The method consists in assessing the āneighborsā of the resource of interest by ratings (Rambler Top-100, LiveInternet and others) with the further assumption of attendance of a particular competitor site. Not everyone hides statistics, so almost certainly the "immediate environment" of the site of interest will find in which segment the competitor is located. Just look at the attendance of āneighborsā by rating and calculate between the two nearest average. Most likely, the real statistics of the resource of interest will be within the obtained value.
Another good way is to contact the site administration and act as an advertiser. As a rule, resource owners willingly provide statistics to those interested in advertising or partnerships.
How else can I find site statistics
If we are talking about the assessment of competitors, and there is no information about visits anywhere, we can analyze indirect indicators: user activity, frequency of updates, quality of content, presence of company groups on social networks and activity in communities, number of subscribers, speed of response to a complaint or question. Having estimated all these parameters, we can conclude that the portal traffic.
A lot of options to see the statistics of a competitor's site gives the webmaster wide access to information that they often try to make secret. This is especially true when it comes to highly competitive areas and commercial pages, where the popularity and income earned directly depend on actions to promote the resource. Knowing the statistics of competitors, you can set new specific goals and achieve success faster.