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Re: Ask HN: What does traffic to example.com look like?

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Post by heyalexej »

Backlinks[1],[2],[3] and rankings[4] might be interesting to some people as well.

[1]https://ahrefs.com/site-explorer/overview/subdomains/?target... [2]http://www.majesticseo.com/reports/site-explorer?q=example.c... [3]http://moz.com/researchtools/ose/links?site=example.com [4]http://www.semrush.com/info/example.com+(by+organic)

Re: Ask HN: What does traffic to example.com look like?

#22

Post by inthewoods »

Compete.com has them at 155k a month. Now, having worked at Compete in the past, I usually found their traffic estimate to be off by 75-100% due to the lack of international data (and coordinating with publishers/looking at their Google Analytics data). Compete also can't capture mobile usage which could account for up to 50% of a domain like this.

So I'd estimate it at 600k/month. 150k x 2 = 300k, and then 50% coming from mobile that isn't measures = 600k.

Just a data point....Similarweb estimate could be better.

Re: Ask HN: What does traffic to example.com look like?

#23

Post by duskwuff »

IgorPartola wrote: post #20

Don't @example.com email addresses get a ton of mail as well?

The domain doesn't publish a MX record, and the A record fallback isn't accepting connections on port 25. So no; while there's probably a lot of it that people try to send, none of it arrives.

Re: Ask HN: What does traffic to example.com look like?

#24

Post by joelrunyon »

heyalexej wrote: post #21

Backlinks[1],[2],[3] and rankings[4] might be interesting to some people as well. [1] https://ahrefs.com/site-explorer/overview/subdomains/?target... [2] http://www.majesticseo.com/reports/site-explorer?q=example.c... [3] http://moz.com/researchtools/ose/links?site=example.com [4] http://www.semrush.com/info/example.com+(by+organic)

6.8M backlinks - woah.

Re: Ask HN: What does traffic to example.com look like?

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Post by leephillips »

joelrunyon wrote: post #24
heyalexej wrote: post #21

Backlinks[1],[2],[3] and rankings[4] might be interesting to some people as well. [1] https://ahrefs.com/site-explorer/overview/subdomains/?target... [2] http://www.majesticseo.com/reports/site-explorer?q=example.c... [3] http://moz.com/researchtools/ose/links?site=example.com [4] http://www.semrush.com/info/example.com+(by+organic)

6.8M backlinks - woah.

Well, most of those are low-quality links. That must explain why I never see example.com come up in my Google searches.

Re: Ask HN: What does traffic to example.com look like?

#28

Post by __float »

inthewoods wrote: post #22

Compete.com has them at 155k a month. Now, having worked at Compete in the past, I usually found their traffic estimate to be off by 75-100% due to the lack of international data (and coordinating with publishers/looking at their Google Analytics data). Compete also can't capture mobile usage which could account for up to 50% of a domain like this. So I'd estimate it at 600k/month. 150k x 2 = 300k, and then 50% comin…

This would make sense for a website that actually has content people want. Traffic to example.com surely wouldn't be intentional or repeated, and certainly not the result of an end user typing "example.com" into the address bar.

Re: Ask HN: What does traffic to example.com look like?

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Post by heyalexej »

leephillips wrote: post #26
joelrunyon wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

6.8M backlinks - woah.

Well, most of those are low-quality links. That must explain why I never see example.com come up in my Google searches.

There's no content that could be ranked. https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aexample.com
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