How to Find the Web Traffic of a Site
The Internet is an enormous network of billions of individual web pages, each of which is part of a website. Some websites are visited by millions of people every day, while some are barely visited by anyone at all. A page-view is known as a hit, and the number of hits that a site has is known as "web traffic." If you want to know the number of hits that a site gets, there are a few ways to find out.
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Check the page for a "hit counter." Many website creators place hit counters on their pages, both to keep track of the number of hits they receive and to let visitors know how popular their site is. These counters, when present, usually appear as simple numbers---around seven digits---at the bottom center of the page.
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Check a site like TrafficEstimate.com, which compiles data about popular websites. Along with the number of page-views, TrafficEstimate will tell you the number of unique visitors to the site, as well as other data and ways of ranking it.
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Contact the webmaster through email. Most site owners keep track of their traffic in one way or another, even if they do not have a hit counter on their site. The "Contact Us" link on a site is usually in small type at the very bottom or top of each page.
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Tips & Warnings
If it is your site that you are trying to compile this data for, you can find hundreds of free hit counters online. There are also paid hit counters which cost a little bit of money but keep track of more than their free alternatives.
Hit counters usually list the number of times a page has been visited, rather than the number of unique visitors who have been to a page. They also usually work on a page-by-page basis, so they do not provide extremely accurate data about the website as a whole.
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