# Website statistics site?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/website-statistics-site/488611
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [March 7, 2009, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/website-statistics-site/488611 "2009-03-07T01:35:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2009, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/website-statistics-site/488611/1 "2009-03-07T01:35:41Z")
Someone recently posted a link to a website where you can see the number of visitors a website gets. There was a histogram on the page.
What is the name of that site?
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### Author:  [@The\_Surb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Surb)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2009, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/website-statistics-site/488611/2 "2009-03-07T02:09:45Z")
[Alexa.com](http://Alexa.com)?
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### Author:  [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2009, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/website-statistics-site/488611/3 "2009-03-07T02:13:40Z")
That’s the one. At least, that’s the one that was recently linked to. There are others (like Nielsen’s NetRatings) but I think they’re all fee-based.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2009, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/website-statistics-site/488611/4 "2009-03-07T02:36:13Z")
> [@The\_Surb](#):
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> [Alexa.com](http://Alexa.com)?
Thank you. That’s it.
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### Author:  [@JR\_Brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JR_Brown)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2009, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/website-statistics-site/488611/5 "2009-03-07T07:48:31Z")
Also Quantcast, which offers some interesting tidbits as well as pageviews, although I’d take their “demographic” information with a grain of salt.
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### Author:  [@aaelghat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aaelghat)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2009, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/website-statistics-site/488611/6 "2009-03-08T13:32:09Z")
There’s also [http://www.compete.com](http://www.compete.com).
The thing to remember about all these sites (except for Quantcast if the site has been “Quantcasted”) is that they are all estimates, and the estimates can be pretty skewed.
A large part of Alexa’s estimates are based on people using the Alexa toolbar, and users tend to be webmaster types. So if the site doesn’t cater to the types that download the toolbar, people will be undercounted. Compete uses sample data as well.
Long story short, when I compare my own analytics and site statistics with what compete, alexa, and quantcast have, the “real” numbers vary with the estimates from those sites.
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### Author:  [@Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crowbar_of_Irony_3)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2009, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/website-statistics-site/488611/7 "2009-03-10T09:06:50Z")
I’ve been using [http://www.trafficestimate.com/](http://www.trafficestimate.com/) but I have no idea how accurate it is.