web site popularity

[Jack Gordon]

ok traffic experts, this is for you....

I have a web site that gets significant traffic. How exactly can I measure that traffic from the outside (i.e. not interested in internal stats)

I want to know, for instance, how my site compares to Yahoo, Google, Ebay, etc. in terms of traffic.

Which tools would you use to do that, and (excuse me foir being a bit of a dummy) how do you use them?

 

[MrDude]

http://inventory.overture.com
http://alexa.com

Only ones I know of, Hope you find them useful.

 

[droplister]

urltrends.com will compare your site against all sites in their database
marketleap.com will compare your link pop with sites of your choice

 

[Rarethings]

urltrends.com is nice, but it won't really give you an "overall rank" if that is what you are looking for.

Go to alexa.com and enter in your domain. It should give you a better feel for where your domain stands.

 

[TheNetCode]

good information I just got a few more ideas from this thread thanks everyone.

 

[Jack Gordon]

thanks everyone!