I found this incredible tool that estimates the number of visitors an website has. It seems pretty accurate, judging from the tests I’ve done.

I tested with Geekpedia.com which currently gets ~85,000 visitors / month. MetricsMarket estimated 83,600 visitor sessions in the last 30 days. That’s very accurate.

The results shown above are collected from a sample of over 2 million users. They are usually accurate to within 5-15% of real traffic, however some anomalies may happen which can reduce the accuracy.

I noticed it doesn’t work with smaller websites.

• Find out what pages Google has indexed
• Should I still design for the 800×600 screen resolution?
• Google PageRank is updating / Future PageRank estimators

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