How many visitors does your forum get?

[=MGN=RedEagle]

Hey guys,

Just wanted to know, how many absolute unique visitors did you get last month? Also could you post the URL?

(My aim is to use your results to test how accurate Alexa and Compete are.)

 

[Andy.N]

No need to test Alexa and Compete. They are completely inaccurate. I use them and they severely underestimate our traffic.

 

[Luke F]

44,179 absolute unique visitors
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/gamingmasters.co.uk

 

[=MGN=RedEagle]

Thanks so much for adding the URL! It looks like compete has done a bad estimate of your site: http://siteanalytics.compete.com/gamingmasters.co.uk/. Anyone else have a link? I am going to look for patterns...

 

[lazer]

Don't bother with Compete or Alexa, their stats are so far out, it's laughable.

Here's the Compete stat for my big forum during the past month:

..and now the truth - Google Analytics (code which I actually have on my site - so way more accurate):

 

[=MGN=RedEagle]

I guess your making a good point there. Thanks for the pictures, I am learning a lot.

Don't bother with Compete or Alexa, their stats are so far out, it's laughable.

Here's the Compete stat for my big forum during the past month:
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..and now the truth - Google Analytics (code which I actually have on my site - so way more accurate):

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I really don't know why Compete and Alexa etc even bother...

 

[lazer]

I guess your making a good point there. Thanks for the pictures, I am learning a lot.

You're welcome

 

[Carlos]

10,000 unique visitors in 7 months.

One niche, one new xenforo license.

 

[Floris]

 

[=MGN=RedEagle]

10,000 unique visitors in 7 months.

One niche, one new xenforo license.

Can you send me the URL or a picture of the UV of Google vs Compete?

 

[jonsidneyb]

I have no clue.

 

[Carlos]

Can you send me the URL or a picture of the UV of Google vs Compete?

Just google.

 

[Trombones13]

Well, this is depressing.
Site: http://voiceradio.us

This is traffic from when I started tracking (two months after the forum's launch; about two and a half weeks after the radio launched) up until yesterday. The peak in May was because I was fast in breaking news on John Mayer's new album, so I got a lot of traffic from Twitter. ...and yet, it was only 153 visits. :/

 

[Luke B]

Google Analytics - 2,731 Unique Visitors
http://www.slruser.com/
Not too bad for being bran new I guess :/

 

[=MGN=RedEagle]

Just google.

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Wow, compete only says 200. What I am looking for is like some sort of pattern in their system... thanks for all the help guys

 

[Trombones13]

Oops; I forgot to post the last month's visitor stats: 580 visitors.

 

[Paul B]

Twitter discussion split off to here: http://xenforo.com/community/threads/using-twitter-to-promote-a-site.18611/

 

[lazer]

Google Analytics - 2,731 Unique Visitors
http://www.slruser.com/
Not too bad for being bran new I guess :/

I like your logo styling - feels like a recognised brand already.

 

[Luke B]

I like your logo styling - feels like a recognised brand already.

Thank you lazer!
Now I just need to get others to appreciate it. Traffic is increasing decently so I'm optimistic

 

[-GR-]

Our main site is around 120,000 uniques a month.

You can't go by Alexa or others like Alexa. It is so easy to fool them by using their tool bar. If you install their tool bar and visit your site everyday you will see how quickly it ranks. Which is why alexa is no better the just pulling numbers out of thin air.