I know Alexa is not accurate, but what websites provide a more realistic view of US and global traffic? Quantcast data seems only US and no Page view data
Google Analytics Anything self owned from Google I use because we are trying to rank better for Google's search engine. What better to learn from the master.
I trust my server stats over all of them. Each and every one of them will give you different numbers on any given day...they are not all that accurate and they never match. Server stats are the most accurate that you are going to get over a 3rd party tracker. (Provided you have a good stats program on it). Nothing can beat the numbers from the source.
I got to give it to google anaylitics for my entire site but I also use stat counter as well and I am not sure why??
Alexa is, in my opinion, a poor service for those wishing to compare competitor traffic (unless you're in the first 1,000 websites, and then I think you wouldn't care too much ). Alexa determines traffic from the users having their toolbar and regular users generally have no Alexa toolbar or other "gadgets". Quantcast is, for me, a good place to check things out, since I'm focusing more on US traffic.
Check pagerank using the google toolbar - toolbar.google.com Also you can not really tell the amount of traffic of a page unless they publicly announce it or you are the owner.
How do you think Quantcast number? It seems only 50% of my server log. I want to use it as gauge for competitor sites, can I?
Use compete.com for competitors traffic rankings. this is something that can be easily manipulated with proxy hits, and autohits....so i dont know what this info will really do for you