9 Best Free Tools To Analyze And Compare Your Website Popularity

As a webmaster or owner of the website, everybody wants to know how their website is doing; compared to the big players of his/her niche. Here I’ve listed 9 best of the analysis and comparison tools available on the web to check, compare and optimize your website. These tools include services which provides traffic statistics, SEO information about your site, social popularity like on Twitter, digg etc, feed statistics comparison and other details like how much your website is worth. Have a look and use these tools to optimize your website.

1. Alexa.com

The most popular traffic ranking service today. It tracks traffic statistics of websites and provides a numerical rank based on the data that they collect. You can find a website’s Page Views and Reach (the % of internet users that have visited the website). Check your website’s statistics here.

2. Compete.com

If Alexa is most popular service, Compete is the perfect of them all. Its statistics are accurate. It shows unique visitors and visits, visit sources and referrals, keywords and tags. The best feature about it, you can compare up to 5 websites’ statistics in one go. This much functionalities are available for free accounts, but pro accounts can have more insight in to these numbers. Check digg’s numbers here.

3. Quantcast.com

Quantcast is another popular site traffic measuring tool. Publishers have to “Quantify” their website – a process in which you place a script in your web pages so that they can measure your traffic statistics directly. Sites that aren’t quantified may not have accurate/complete data and many people aren’t comfortable about placing third-party scripts – which publish statistics publicly – on their websites.

4. Yahoo Site Explorer

In-bound links to your website from other websites is the main popularity measure for your site and it plays major role in deciding how search engines will rank your site.. You can check all your in-bound links using Yahoo’s Site Explorer.

5. Quarkbase.com

Quarkbase provides comprehensive information about your website. That includes overview of website, social comments (e.g. from Twitter), mentions in the blogsphere, Social popularity (e.g. digg, stumble etc.) and some server details. Very useful.

6. Websitegrader.com

It’s bit similar to Quarkbase, but provide more detailed information about your website. It’s more inclined towards SEO analysis of the website. On-page SEO elements like metadata, keywords, heading, image summary etc. Off-page SEO elements like domain information, Google page-rank, Indexed pages, search engine crawl dates, Yahoo and Dmoz directory listings. Also includes blog analysis and Blog ranking in Technorati.

7. dnScoop.com

dnScoop estimates the value of a website based on factors such as links pointing to the domain, popularity of the domain, page rank, traffic, and more.

8. popuri.us

popuri helps determine how popular a URL is based on web services and statistics such as Alexa, Technorati, Delicious bookmarks, number of subscribers, and more. It’s a one page tool that gives you a quick overview of how popular a website is. popuri.us even gives you the option to post a widget on your site to display your popularity.

9. feedcompare.com

As the name suggests, FeedCompare compares the feed statistics of any blogs, provided they are using FeedBurner as their feed manager. It can show number of subscribers for up to 24 months.

Do you know any other such services? Let others know via comments.