How much hits does a website get from search engines?

[expert]

Is there any tool to know how much hits does a website receives?

[annalaurabrown]

Yes there are quite a few. The best one though is Google Analytics.

[ajwalsh]

Do you mean for your own sites, or a way to check the rankings of any site you visit?

[Melody]

Yes, this is exactly the kind of information that Google Analytics would provide you. I've known some who say that SiteMeter is better, but personally I'm using Google Analytics.

Hits is not a meaningful analytic. You really want to be looking at visitors, and even more importantly "absolute unique visitors" - If I sit at my desk and visit my own website 5 times in an hour, that's 5 hits but only one visitor. You get a better sense of how your traffic is doing from unique visitors metric.

And how many you get is going to vary a lot from site to site. About one half of my own traffic (maybe closer to one third) comes from people who go to google and type in random words...a whole variety of words/ search terms.

[Jhun247]

Yeah, unique visitors/returning visitors are what really tell you how many people are looking at your blog and how many people continue to come back.

[pepetlou]

really good question!

[anujmore]

If you are using draft.blogger.com, you can use the Stats tab (Its beside "monetize") to get an idea. It is very much similar to Google Analytics (Maybe it is actually a port of Google Analytics)

[ajwalsh]

+1 to all the advice here so far.

Many also use statcounter.com as it provides real time visitor stats.

Since the op mentioned search engine traffic, there is also a "Traffic Sources Overview" tab in Google Analytics that breaks down visitors from referring sites, search engines and direct traffic.

[Dahin]

Just another thing i learned today just being on this forum, me being new this is of great help. Thanks everyone

[adamx8]

Google Analytics is ok but I prefer to use Woopra for my sites but I own and host my own blogs so it's only good for that. I monitor all day and I manage several sites with it. I look at Analytics only once in a while. Check them out, pretty cool stuff