How To Check And Analyze Website Traffic Statistics: Beginner's Guide
![How To Check And Analyze Website Traffic Statistics: Beginner's Guide](https://serpstat.com/img/blog/website-traffic-analysis-beginners-guide/1670495222pictures-05-min.png)
This article will help you understand how to view and estimate the traffic to your website and the pages of your competitors.
2. Why do I need to analyze website traffic statistics
3. Key indicators of website traffic statistics
4. How to see how much traffic a website gets
5. Main indicators of traffic analysis
5.1 Sessions, Users, Pages / Session, Avg. Session Duration, Bounce Rate
5.2 Traffic channels
5.3 Devices
5.4 Average position
5.5 CTR
5.6 Clicks
5.7 Scrollmap
6. Statistic comparison with the previous period
7. Competitor traffic analysis
7.1 Find your key online competitors
7.2 Analyze website traffic of every competitor
8. Conclusion
What is website traffic statistics?
- Total number of website's visitors.
- All actions visitors take on the website.
- Your website's performance.
- Results of website optimization and promotion.
Correct estimation and analysis of such data will help you find problems in your promotion strategy and make it more effective. Regardless of a web resource type – an online store or a simple landing page – you have to continuously analyze your website's traffic.
Why do I need to analyze website traffic statistics
Key indicators of website traffic statistics
How to see how much traffic a website gets
Main indicators of traffic analysis
Sessions, Users, Pages / Session, Avg. Session Duration, Bounce Rate
Here are Sessions, Users, Pages/Session, Avg. Session Duration, and Bounce Rate for our online store in April.
![Audience overview in Google Analytics](https://serpstat.com/img/blog/website-traffic-analysis-beginners-guide/16704952248AyKJafuS06t9yteZ0IN.png)
- The website is popular with 148,933 user sessions per month.
- The number of sessions exceeds the number of users by 20%. This means that 20% of users may have visited the online store twice (or even more).
- The average number of pages per session is 1.29. We can assume that after visiting a product page, users proceed to the payment page.
- The bounce rate is quite high for this type of online store (82.52%). This means that only 17.48% of visitors stay on the website for more than 15 seconds.
- Session duration is also small – only 1 minute 11 seconds.
Traffic channels
Here is the breakdown of traffic channels for the analyzed website.
![Channels in Google Analytics](https://serpstat.com/img/blog/website-traffic-analysis-beginners-guide/1670495225L_I-QxJ_T3qoKiqLNS0d.png)
- 1OrganicSearch engine results' pages
- 2DirectPurposeful and direct visits to the website
- 3ReferralsTransitions to the website through the links on third-party resources
- 4Paid SearchTransitions through ads in Google
- 5SocialTransitions through social media
- 6EmailTransitions through corporate email newsletters
- 7DisplayTransitions through banner ads set in Google Ads
- 8OtherTraffic that Google Analytics could not recognize
Apart from the list of mail traffic sources, this screenshot also includes other indicators for every source. You can compare and analyze these rates to understand which traffic source is the most effective and which channel you may even ignore.
In this case, the organic search yields the best results, whereas email is unproductive.
Devices
Here is the statistics by device type for the online store of travel equipment:
![Mobile devices in Google Analytics](https://serpstat.com/img/blog/website-traffic-analysis-beginners-guide/1670495226q1fOZpTKQX_bXI6sPQ0n.png)
Average position
To view the website position for keywords, go to Google Search Console > Performance tab.
In April, the average position of the analyzed online store was 27.7.
![Performance in Google Search Console](https://serpstat.com/img/blog/website-traffic-analysis-beginners-guide/1670495227j8enOqA3QYW7-CtzpBJj.png)
To view statistics for a separate page, click + NEW > Page:
![Page performance in Google Search Console](https://serpstat.com/img/blog/website-traffic-analysis-beginners-guide/1670495228ppsTSgykTluA4Krni9-_.png)
CTR
Our online store of travel equipment had an average 4% CTR during the analyzed period.
![CTR analysis in Google Search Console](https://serpstat.com/img/blog/website-traffic-analysis-beginners-guide/1670495229CLgNNKftS5SpaliJ72EG.png)
Clicks
- Open a page you want to analyze.
- Press Ctrl + Alt + H on the keyboard. You will see a window asking for your login and password (you have entered this information during the registration).
- Once you authorize, you will see a dashboard on the selected page. Choose a period you plan to analyze and turn on a click map.
- The page will show the number of clicks on every element.
Based on this information, you can understand what to improve and which elements it's better to eliminate.
Scrollmap
To analyze the scroll depth of pages, you have to take the following steps:
- Go to the page you want to analyze.
- Press Ctrl + Alt + H to open the Plerdy dashboard.
- Select the period you plan to analyze and turn on the scroll map.
![Scrollmap in Plerdy](https://serpstat.com/img/blog/website-traffic-analysis-beginners-guide/1670495230ihbe2_Y3RZ2YUG1b2bbw.jpg)
Statistic comparison with the previous period
To perform such an analysis, you will need to use Google Analytics and the following settings. Select dates and compare them with the previous period. Note that the chosen two months must have an equal number of days and start/end with the same day. For our analysis, we selected 30 days. The first day is Monday, and the last one is Tuesday.
The analysis shows the following results:
![Stats dynamics in Google Analytics](https://serpstat.com/img/blog/website-traffic-analysis-beginners-guide/167049523153rTfviMTTiKJ1JKlUDC.png)
To improve the current approach to website promotion or implement a new one, you should also know your competitors. Don't forget about regularly monitoring them and comparing their web traffic with yours.
Competitor traffic analysis
Plan for collecting information about competitor websites:
- Find your key online competitors.
- Select from 3 to 6 main competitors.
- Estimate website traffic of every competitor.
Find your key online competitors
How to understand who you are competing with on the web? Go to Google and search various keywords related to your business one by one. This will show you the general picture of the websites that comprise your business niche.
Still, this approach is quite time- and effort-consuming. Therefore, you can try special online services that can fully automate the search and analysis of competitors, such as Serpstat.
Choose several competitors that seem to be the most relevant. It's not recommended to include too many web resources in the analysis. The thing is that each of them may use a different approach and still get top results. If you are a newbie, the more competitors you analyze, the more likely you are to get confused and choose the wrong method.
Analyze website traffic of every competitor
- Serpstat.
- SimilarWeb.
- Ahrefs.
Serpstat is a multifunctional service you can use to learn more about your competitors. It's an excellent solution for in-depth analysis. With Serpstat, you can view which keywords another website uses for promotion, contextual ads, our 100% accurate keyword rank tracking platform will help you check the position of a website.
![Competitor research in Serpstat](https://serpstat.com/img/blog/website-traffic-analysis-beginners-guide/1670495232YMVCfMVnQ4mQ-8iLL4Gu.png)
- Open SimilarWeb.
- Enter the URL of a competitor in the corresponding field.
- Analyze the results.
Apart from the total traffic of the analyzed website, this service also shows the sources of traffic.
![Traffic analysis in SimilarWeb](https://serpstat.com/img/blog/website-traffic-analysis-beginners-guide/1670495233PcqoANlgS__a50z3qbxs.png)
Ahrefs is an online tool that can help you learn more about the link building (used to increase a linkmass) and content strategy of your competitors.
Perceive this data as a foundation that will help you develop an action plan for the future.
Conclusion
FAQ
How to check website traffic?
There are plenty of tools that allow you to check how much traffic your website gets:
1. Google Analytics
2. Google Search Console
3. Serpstat
4. Semrush
5. SE Ranking
6. WebCEO
7. Sitechecker Pro
8. Alexa
9. SimilarWeb
10. Ubersuggest
11. Ahrefs
12. Moz Pro, and many more.
Can I check website traffic for free?
Yes, you can check the traffic of your website or any other website, for free or via free trial by using services such as Serpstat, SimilarWeb, Sitechecker Pro, MonsterInsights, WebCEO, Google Search Console, Google Analytics, Alexa, SE Ranking, Semrush, Moz Pro, Ubersuggest, and others.
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