Cool Website Traffic Monitoring Tools

written by NerdByte

Monitoring your site traffic is important to know who is visiting your website and why. Some hosting providers provide stat monitoring with your domain name package, however they sometimes do not provide additional information such as ranking and comparison.

The following online traffic monitoring tools are free to use. You can use these tools to gather additional information about your website, check competitors websites and even use this information for when you want to purchase previously used domain name traffic and stats.

Extreme Tracking

Extreme Tracking is a free or subscription stat based service that monitors your website traffic. For hosting companies that provide only basic website stat tracking, this service is a great alternative. Even the free stat service is great; it tracks visitors, keywords, system, referrers and more. Visit Website >>

Alexa

Alexa is great because it monitors site traffic and assigns rankings. It also keeps track of link backs. Alexa also has a tool bar and a plug-in for Firefox. My favorite feature is the list of URLs that other people have visited while you view a website profile. It also has RSS Feeds and a top site list. Visit Website >>

URL Trends

This is a cool one I just found. URL Trends generates ranking, link back, link popularity and social bookmark trends. It also generates a list of keywords your domain name will come under without you having to enter that particular keyword. How cool is that!

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If you've come across any website traffic monitoring tools we should know about, please make a post in the nerd forums (also called The Pit) and let us know!