How much traffic do websites get?

Ever wonder how popular a certain website is? Your company appeared on www.somewhateversite.com, but so what? How can you tell whether or not anyone visits that site?

Check out Alexa.com and install an Alexa toolbar on your browser. It will automatically give you a traffic rank of each and every site you visit. It's where that site is ranked on the entire web. The lower the number, the better. For example, Google and Yahoo are usually #1 and #2.

Another good traffic site is Compete.com, where you can type in URL's and directly compare the traffic of different sites.

These are not 100% accurate, that must be said. But they do give you an idea. If a site has a traffic rank of 100, that's no accident. There are millions of people visiting every day.

And just so you know, if the traffic rank on your site says "N/A," you might want to call someone. That means there isn't a single soul on your site and you may want to do something about that.