Spying or marketing

Hi,
can I track my competitor's visitors? I mean in terms of numbers of visitors ? is there any tool that give such statistic and is it fair to say it's a marketing tool, thanks

Yes, you can. Statcounter and google analytics can do that.

They can do that for competitors?????

Both are for our site but how can we know about our competitors visitors?
I know one name is http://www.trafficestimate.com this website is reliable or not?

You can track competitors site by registering at statcounter and google analytics using the url of your competitors. By doing that, you have an idea on how much visitors keep visiting on that site.

You are seriously going haywire........Have you ever used Google Analytics, i doubt that? U have to insert a code in your pages to track... Will u hack your competitors website and insert the code?

Think before you advise!!

Well this doesn't seem especially accurate but statbrain.com will give you at least some idea of how many people access a competitor's website a day. Just type in their URL.

In regards to Google Analytics, I use it and you need to put a line of code into your website to begin to track your visitors to your site. It doesn't work with tracking a competitor's number of visits in a timeframe.

When i enter my website it shows 2,386 visits per day and Google analytics shows 500 visits then who is more reliable.

Well, this tool u suggested is showing me an almost 10 times the visits per day for my websites when compared to the visits recorded in google analytics. I guess an overall worthless tool.

hi, no tools is availabe that can track competitor's visitors. without using code how can u tack

what code talking about analytic code.

The tool may be worthless but I can tell you right now that Google analytics is not accurately displaying the number of visits to my company's website. I have been fighting with google over this but they can't seem to track very much outside of google organic listings and paid placement. There is an "other" category, but I get more visits to the website then it is showing. I have other tools to compare with.

The fact is that neither Google analytics is actually accurate, cosnidering browsers that might have javascript (or frames) disabled.

@OP , you can't track the exact amount of traffic, you can base tho on "presumptions" and other traffic tools like Alexa and Compete, but anyway those are not accurate, but you can still base on those informations compare them with your site and have an idea of how much traffic they might have.

Hope this helps

google analytics requires code to be installed on web pages

Alexa is not that accurate