How to view site statistics: all ways

Before you start promoting your own, especially a corporate website, you need to conduct a full analysis of the market, examine the main competitors and make a unique trading offer. Trying to achieve success in the field of online activities without serious preparation, of course, you can, but it will be more an exception than the rule. Webmasters often start with the evaluation of attendance of competitors. In the Internet environment, you can look at the site's statistics (own or foreign) in various ways.

Estimated counters for Google Analytics

You can view the statistics of the Google Analytics site only in cases where the resource is your own. To assess the attendance of competitors, using one of the most common counters, will not work. That's why Google Analytics is often installed on new sites, while the resource has nothing to brag about.

For your own site, Google Analytics is a great choice. Many webmasters say with confidence that the service is the most advanced in its segment. It gives you the opportunity to learn the main sources of traffic, set special parameters, track the time to conversion and many more interesting and useful. In addition, the installation of Google Analytics provides an opportunity to further connect other useful services of a giant corporation, such as the Google Adsense advertising network or Google Webmaster Webmaster Tools.

"Yandex Metrics" as a source of information about competitors

To view the site's statistics on "Yandex" is somewhat simpler, but it is possible only in those cases when the "Resource" is installed on the resource of interest. The information can be displayed graphically in the footer of the site. Clicking on the rectangular frame with parameters for the last day, week, month and year, or simply with an up or down arrow (depending on the dynamics of resource positions), you can see the statistics of the site. "Metric" shows how many things were viewed, visited and visited. All this information is available only if the site has a counter from "Yandex".

LiveInternet Statistics

The method is similar to viewing statistics using Yandex tools. The LiveInternet icon is at the bottom of the resource page and can have a different appearance: attendance attendance arrow or specific parameters for a certain period of time.

You can see the statistics of the site on the LiveInternet portal itself. By default, the rating shows the leaders. To display resource data from this list, click on "Site Statistics", selecting the row of interest. Statistics show:

• Number of visitors;

• Average time of site viewing;

• Number of sessions;

• The average number of online users.

In addition, according to these data, you can calculate the viewing depth: the average number of views should be divided by the number of visitors.

If the resource of interest is not in the leaderboard, you can simply copy the site address and paste it into the search line on LiveInternet. It will not be possible to view data from Internet resources that are not registered on LiveInternet, or those that require an administrator password to access statistics.

How to view attendance on Wix

A fairly popular site builder Wix offers a convenient display of page statistics for webmasters who own resources. You will not be able to see the statistics of the site on Wix, unless, of course, it's about a foreign resource, but you can use Yandex Metrics - the designer offers installation on the site of this service.

Estimation of competitors' statistics on Ucoz

You can view the statistics of the Ucoz site, as in the case of Google Analytics, only by accessing the Resource Administrator panel. Of course, it is possible to study the resource data if it has open counters from Yandex or LiveInternet. To do this, follow the appropriate instructions.

So, you can see the statistics of the site on Ucoz on the guest password, but you need to get access from the administrator for this. With the data received from the owner or moderator of the resource, you can go to the admin panel, where all the statistics are available. In this case, the guest will not be able to access the "vital" functions of the site: changing the e-mail address associated with the account, or other large-scale changes.

Plugins for viewing attendance

To view site statistics, you can also use special plug-ins that are installed in the browser as add-ons and work in the background. Such software is produced by more or less large companies, as well as by individual enthusiasts - programmers, developers, promotion specialists in search engines and so on.

The most popular plugin that allows you to view the site statistics is called RDS Bar. The loud slogan of the add-on ("SEO is a war") allows to assume the power and informative content of the plug-in, which is quite appropriate to reality. The supplement gives a lot of information: from the analysis of attendance to the number of pages indexed by the search engine. уживается с Mozilla Firefox. There are plug-in versions for all major browsers, but as practice shows, RDS Bar works best with Mozilla Firefox.

Another good solution is PageRank Status. This add-on uses ratings from Alexa to compile visitor statistics. The information is presented in a convenient visual design.

A similar addition is a similar service from LiveInternet, which allows you to view the required information literally "in one click." The only negative - it works only with the resources registered in the system with the same name.

Specialized Internet Services

Other tools that make it possible to comprehensively analyze competitors, are characterized by speed and frequent updates of statistics. Online services better adapt to the changing conditions of attendance of resources than individual small programs.

The main resources that allow you to find out information about competitors, knowing the address of the site, are the following: Bravica.net, Seranking.ru and Similarweb.com. These are the most informative tools with a large set of functions.

Other online services often give out errors or the message "statistics are currently unavailable," they use obsolete databases or have such a narrow set of capabilities that it is not possible to comprehensively analyze statistics.

An alternative way to find out the attendance of a resource

If the developers for any reason carefully hide the attendance of their own resources from other people's eyes, you can still look at the statistics of the site, but in a somewhat different, alternative way. So to say, "bypassing".

The method consists in evaluating the "neighbors" of the resource of interest by rating ("Top-100", LiveInternet and others) with the further assumption of attendance of a particular competitor site. Not all hide the statistics, so that almost certainly the "nearest environment" of the site of interest will find out which segment the competitor is in. It is enough to look at the attendance of "neighbors" by rating and to calculate the average between the two nearest ones. Most likely, the actual statistics of the resource of interest will be within the limits of the received value.

Another good way is to contact the administration of the site and act as an advertiser. As a rule, the owners of the resource willingly provide statistics interested in the placement of advertising or partnership.

How else can you find the statistics of the site

If it is a question of evaluating competitors, and information about visits is nowhere to be found, you can analyze indirect indicators: user activity, update frequency, content quality, presence of company groups in social networks and community activity, number of subscribers, speed of response to a complaint or question. Evaluating all these parameters, we can conclude that the attendance portal.

A lot of options to look at the statistics of the competitor's site open the webmaster wide access to information, which is often tried to make secret. This is especially true when it comes to highly competitive areas and commercial pages, where popularity and revenue are directly dependent on actions to promote the resource. Knowing the statistics of competitors, you can put new specific goals and succeed faster.