Unique visitors ?

[DomainDealer]

How would I know how many unique visitors the domain-name receives without being purchased ?

 

[.edu]

Park it, host it or redirect it to free hosting that has a hit counter.

 

[Rob]

Without being purchased?

If it has a current owner, ask them for stats and proof.

If it hasnt been registered, its unlikely you will get any traffic.

 

[painperdu]

Unless you can moniter the server logs directly, it's hard to get an accurate unique visitor count. The closest you may come is the stats at http://www.alexa.com

 

[ypn]

Sorry to steal your thread, but on the same topic...

on the namepros instant appraisal http://namepros.com/dna where does that get the unique visitors from?? anyone?

 

[Raf]

Yeah I would have to agree with painperdu, check out Alexa or ask the current owner about the stats of his domain. Statistics can be seen within cPanel if they are on a Unix Server. Good luck. :tu:

 

[Elefekt]

Originally posted by maximumhost
Sorry to steal your thread, but on the same topic...

on the namepros instant appraisal http://namepros.com/dna where does that get the unique visitors from?? anyone?

it says it can be parsed from the server logs and if you dont know leave it blank..

 

[CoolGuy]

alexa has a nice service

 

[rambo6376]

I'm not so sure alexa is accurate. If one person with Alexa toolbar visits the site repeatedly then the traffic rank goes up tremendously.

 

[ypn]

Originally posted by Elefekt
it says it can be parsed from the server logs and if you dont know leave it blank..

i realize that
but sometimes it shows up automatically... what server logs is it looking at? for example version.org it inserts the uniques...

 

[Evilhaider]

I'd have to agree. Alexa rankings are not reliable because they can be faked fairly easily.

 

[Anthony]

Originally posted by Evilhaider
I'd have to agree. Alexa rankings are not reliable because they can be faked fairly easily.

That makes me wonder if there is a system that can be created that works like Alexa, yet works properly. Any ideas?

 

[g0ldy]

best way is to host it yourself and get the stats

 

[morpheus666]

just put a hit counter on your page

 

[redhippo]

any other way ?? apart from purchase and counters! would like to know too!

 

[CoolGuy]

Cpanel has some great stats

 

[lind]

Can anybody tell me, is it possible to know, from where the keyword searches have come from. I mean, if I'm planning to reg a co.uk name, is it possible to see somewhere, how many searches came form UK? Overall nubers are all great, I'm just not sure about UK.

 

[Kodeking]

Originally posted by maximumhost
Sorry to steal your thread, but on the same topic...

on the namepros instant appraisal http://namepros.com/dna where does that get the unique visitors from?? anyone?

The number it gets is from running a query on inventory.overture.com for the domain in the search box. (including the extention)