website that tracks other websites daily hits??

[cnote]

Is there a website that tracks the amount of traffic other websites have? I am looking to do some advertising on a certain local website but would like to know what kind of traffic this website is doing before I pay to advertise there. Thanks again for all of your help!!

 

[quantumleap]

I don't know how accurate it is but here's one:

http://www.alexa.com

 

[Data]

Only the owners can have the numbers, everyone else is just guessing. The common practice is to "pay per impression" and this allows you to know exactly how many people seen your add and pay accordingly no matter what the owners told you about their traffic figures.

 

[Uno]

Data hit the nail on the head.. Alexa is so full of BS it has lost all of its usefulness... Only the owner of the website or someone he gives the access to can tell the true numbers.

 

[cnote]

thanks fellas

 

[gbogo]

i have 2 sites

one hosted by yahoo and one hosted by valueweb

the yahoo one tells me how may people visit the site per day

as best as I know valueweb doesnt.