want to know the visitors

hi everyone

i just wanted to know that if i m buying any website through ebay then how do i check that site is receiving how much visitors per month or per day? i have seen that seller claim about the site is receiving number of visitors per day or per month but how can i trust them so anyone knows any tool which is free and can tell me the number of visitors the site is receiving.

thnx

 

If you have the cpanel, with username and password known, then you can log into it and find all the statistics. I think there are some free tools available to check the traffic. One is alexa tool. Go to the alexa.com and feed the url. It will show you the traffic for a particular period.

 

If it is a big website , you can use quantcast

 

This is a business, like any other business. After the initial haggling, and whatnot, tell him that you need to see his his log files from his host for the past 90 days before proceeding on.

 

first you can ask them to provide you some screen shots of their statistics. you can also check their site on alexa.com , but keep in mind that alexa's data is not exact and it probably shows lower numbers than real ones!

 

ask them the traffic rates ......

 

thnx to all of you guys and all your tips are very helpful to find out but still i just wanted to know that whether any tools online to check it out like how we are checking pr.

 

No. Traffic is only kept traffic of by the webserver, and the web server can be changed to say whatever the owner of it wants it to say. About the best way to tell traffic is Alexa, but it is really inaccurate, especially when the site is outside the top 300-500k, or if the site is something that would attract a big Alexa using crowd (like web marketers, or blogs about boosting your Alexa rank, or TE traffic)

 

THere are couple of sources you can use to get some idea of traffic one source i love is compete.com it will give you pretty good analytics not very accurate but it is conservative enough. Also quantcast.com is good tool. Also check verify the age of the domain some ppl just buy a domain with traffic and make all sorts of claim. here some tools to verify. Remember check all these to have a good idea. I would stay away from alexa it is very easy to fool its stats.
www.domaintools.com
iwebtool.com

good luck

 

If he's using statcounter to measure traffic on the website, then yo ucan ask to log into statcounter, as you don't need to log into the website to view the stats. Statcounter only counts the last 500 entried in detail, but it keeps records of how many visiters/pageviews there have been. It's a free tool, so even if he isn't using it you could ask him to do so for a few dyas while you discuss the sale.

(www.statcounter.com ifyou need the address)

 

cool thnx for the tools

 

nice advice thnx

 

Tell him to put statcounter on his site for a week, and make the stats viewable by the public.

 

You can use free version or paid versions of ewebcounter.com or statcounter as per your requirement to know the stats and visitors of your site.