Can you recommend an accurate website traffic estimator?

Question by : Can you recommend an accurate website traffic estimator?
I’m looking for a service other than www.visualizetraffic.com that provides accurate monthly traffic value(s) for a given website.

Would a paid service, such as Compete.com, be a better option as far as accuracy or is there a free service that’s reliable and on point?

Finally, if you can please give me some insight as to how these values are derived, it’d be most appreciated.

Thanks!

Best answer:

Answer by imisidro
Google Analytics http://www.google.com/analytics is the best

Compete does NOT provide the granularity of data that you can get with GA. You can get basic numbers with Compete, but you don’t get info on:

- what are the landing pages
- sources of your traffic
- keywords where you got the most traffic

I run Compete with GA numbers, and the number from Compete is off by 25%-30%

GA now integrates with Google Webmaster Tool – and one cool feature is that you can now see how you rank for a particular query.

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