Statbrain is a online web stats tools that helps you guess the number of page views on any site using a combination of Alexa rank, backlink counts from Google, Yahoo and some other unknown factors.
Don’t expect it to be too accurate, but if you want a very rough estimate for any site, this could be useful.
This could be very handy for advertisers or people who are interested in measuring rough traffic on a competitor’s website.
You may also want to checkout Google Trends as they are pretty accurate.
Update: StatBrain gives an estimate about number of visits and not unique visitors or page views. If that sounds confusing, let me explain:
Mr X and Mr Y visit abc.com today. Mr X reads the front page and leaves the site while Mr Y spends more time on the site reading the front page and two other article on the site. Mr Y comes back to abc.com after a couple of hours to read another article.
Now in this scenario – the number of unique visitors is 2, the number of page views (or hits) is 5 while the number of visits is 3.
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Reader Comments
I tried it and gives a totally absurd result for my blog!!! And again it is not accepting the sites without the www added to it and could mislead the stat results if added www to it.
Written by Shiva on 11.06.08
Got strange results when I entered the addresses of some sites.
Written by Apinder on 11.07.08
I think it is using Alexa Rank as main factor to calculate number of visits which is not always accurate.
Written by Satbir Singh on 11.07.08
Amit,
The tool is totally misleading. it is showing 2500 page views per day for link as actual is around 1k.
Written by TechZoomIn on 11.07.08
@Shiva ‘Less than 10 visits per day’ for offersgalore .. it surely is totally inaccurate. Alexa say .0009% of world internet users visit ur blog daily (i.e .0009% of 1,463,632,361 which is 13K approx) and now again is an incorrect figure I believe. So why don’t you post what your Google analytics report says.
Written by Supreet SI on 11.07.08
Mine was kind of close, but definitely not an accurate enough way to assess your traffic situation.
Written by Cool Products on 11.07.08
Completely irrelevant results. link is a similar site but its inaccurate too.
Written by Reliance Insider on 11.07.08
No it’s not accurate. I have more than 500 uq visits, it shows less than 10. How far 500 is? If anyone have doubts can check with their site. And can check the accuracy.
Written by kishore on 11.08.08
Amit,
It is showing 2400 page views per day for my blog articles2u.com - actual is around 300 per day.
Written by sarpras on 11.08.08
Though it not at all near to actuals, it is useful to find some number. For my case it is showing very low than actuals. So I think always we can multiply by some number and guess.
Written by Dutt on 11.08.08
Yes this ones not working for me as well ,why it is not accepting HTTP before URL it is considering only Worldwide Web .
Written by venkat on 11.08.08
The messup with this is that it doesn’t take sub domains, so you can’t really check your blogger account or your subdomain wordpress accounts. Only registered URLs. I don’t think Alexa’s the best ranker either, basing your opinion on a toolbar that some people have and extrapolating it sounds far fetched.
Written by karthick on 11.10.08
Nice stat tool, but not quite accurate.
Written by nofa on 11.11.08