Digital Streets

By now, I’m sure that you’ve heard of Alexa when it comes to getting various information on the traffic metrics for a website.  I came across another useful site for checking out and comparing website metrics.  It’s always useful to see how you’re doing in comparison to your competition (and it’s interesting to check out how other sites are doing against theirs).

Go to Compete and input the address for your site (we’ll use Google for our example). 

After you click the Get SnapShot button, you will be taken to a page with a graph displaying the People Count (unique visitors) that have visited the site over the past year.

The purple buttons on the upper right portion of the graph can be used to display other useful information.  Here are the options:

If you wish to compare the site to 1 or 2 other websites, input them into the textbox(es) in the blue bar at the top.

After clicking the Go button, you will see a graph similar to the previous one, but with the statistics for the additional site(s).

If you register (for free), you can add two more sites to your comparison.  It is an easy and useful way for getting a quick picture of where a site stands against the competition as far as traffic metrics go.