Web analytics
What’s the best way to measure traffic online?
Media managers have long had access to simple statistics about their product’s consumption. Newspaper publishers, for example, have relatively easy access to circulation figures. But more detailed information about consumption habits traditionally has only been available via extensive research, often from outside providers. That is far from the case online, though. Free blogging platforms track [...]
Measure your site’s Web traffic
Most publishing platforms and web-hosting companies provide some sort of tool to gauge your web traffic. However, most built-in solutions aren’t able to provide the depth that outside, professional web analytics tools can. One of the most commonly used professional tools out there is Google Analytics. Analytics is a free tool from Google that provides [...]
Gawker’s monthly pageviews
394,000,000 for the Gawker blog network in October 2009, according to a Twitter post from the company’s CEO
See what users are searching for on Google
Determining the public’s interest in a subject has become increasingly easy in the Internet era. One of the tools that facilitates these measurements is Google Insights. The site allows you to input terms and receive of a graph of “search volume” on any given topic over a period of time. It mashes the results up [...]
Get traffic statistics for someone else’s website
Want to know how many people are visiting your favorite website? That’s pretty simple, using some free online tools. Access such statistics at Compete.com or Alexa.com. Their data is gathered using a panel of a couple million Internet users. You can also check out Quantcast.com, which gives you traffic statistics but also estimates gender, age, [...]