: Estimate of Hits / Visits / Uniques in order to fall within a given Alexa Tier? I was wondering if anyone could offer up rough estimates that could tell me how many hits a day move you

@Heady270

One of my sites has had an Alexa rank floating around the 900,000 to 1,100,000 mark for a while now and it gets around 50,000 visitors a month. The site is outside the US.

My reason for giving this data is that it is rather different to the equivalent data shown in DisgruntledGoat's answer.

....all of which shows how difficult it is to project traffic from an Alexa rank.

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@Gail5422790

I Want to add to the above statements from my Personal and own experience, Alexa ranking is not that reliable to determine whether your site is doing good or not

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@Cofer257

Being a professional web developer I've built and hosted many sites, including personal projects. Here is a range of data from different sites that should help you. Numbers are per month - specifically, the last 30 days from Google Analytics - and rounded to the nearest 100.


1,800 Visits, 10,800 Pageviews -- Alexa #5 ,858,200
46,800 Visits, 143,800 Pageviews -- Alexa #255 ,000
56,900 Visits, 106,900 Pageviews -- Alexa #181 ,200
86,900 Visits, 184,400 Pageviews -- Alexa #306,300
684,500 Visits, 6,267,300 Pageviews -- Alexa #74,400


You can at least see that Alexa's data is not all that reliable since #4 is a bit of an anomaly. Its traffic has dropped in the last couple of months but even extrapolating last week's data to the 30-day range, it still has more visits than #3.

It should also be noted that Alexa guesses website ranks based on people with the Alexa toolbar installed. This means firstly that any site outside the top 100,000 is not measured accurately (as Alexa state themselves). Second, I believe it's possible to fudge the results yourself by installing the toolbar and visiting your own site regularly.

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@Reiling115

I'm involved with a site that is ranked 94,000-ish in Alexa, and they've got 180,000 uniques in the past 30 days, and 800,000 pageviews.

However, this site is outside the US and gets traffic mostly from outside the US. We believe that the demographics of Alexa toolbar users mean that this site has a lower Alexa position than if it were a US site with a lot of traffic originating from the US.

Sorry, i can't name the site as it belongs to a client, and they may not want me to publish traffic figures.

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