Website Traffic Checker: Site Rank, Popularity and Age
Free website traffic checker: see a site's public popularity rank and its 30-day trend, how old the domain is, who hosts it, when the Internet Archive first saved it and what technology it uses. Rank data, never made-up visit numbers.
An honest note first: real visit counts (the numbers Similarweb shows) come from paid panels and private analytics that nobody can see from outside. This page does not guess them. It shows a site's public popularity rank, how its rank has moved, how old the domain is, who hosts it and when the Internet Archive first saved it.
Things to know
Internet Archive history
Technology on the home page
This is the one check that visits the site itself: our server fetches the home page once (public addresses only, 250 KB at most), reads the response headers and page code, and sends back only the technology names it recognises. Nothing is stored.
Look deeper
Rank badge in your browser: the MES Site Rank extension
If you use a traffic extension such as Similarweb, MES Site Rank is the honest version for Chrome, Brave and Edge: click its button on any website to see that site's public Tranco rank, its tier (Top 1,000, Top 10,000 …), and the 30-day rank line, then open the full report here. Tick one box and the rank also shows as a small badge on the toolbar icon for every site you visit. Rank only: it never shows or invents visit counts.
Privacy: it asks only for the page you click it on. When you click, the site's domain name (never the full address) is sent to mes.fm, which asks Tranco for the rank. The automatic badge is off until you tick it and allow the extra “tabs” permission, and then every domain you visit is looked up the same way, so leave it off if that bothers you. No accounts, no tracking.
Install it (about a minute)
- Download the zip and unzip it. Keep the folder
mes-site-ranksomewhere permanent. - Open the extensions page (copy the address, then paste it in the address bar):
chrome://extensionsin Chrome,brave://extensionsin Brave,edge://extensionsin Edge. - Turn on Developer mode, click Load unpacked and choose the
mes-site-rankfolder. - Pin MES Site Rank from the puzzle-piece menu, then click it on any website.
Website traffic checker: how popular is a site, and how old?
Type any website to see its popularity rank from the Tranco list, the daily rank for the last 30 days (so you can see whether it is growing), how old the domain is, who hosts it, and how long the Internet Archive has been saving it. It works as a free, honest alternative to browser extensions that show a rank badge on every site.
Where the rank comes from
The Tranco list is a research ranking that combines five public sources: the Chrome User Experience Report (real Chrome users), Cloudflare Radar, Majestic, Cisco Umbrella and Farsight. It averages 30 days so one lucky day cannot push a site up. Lower is better: #1 is the most visited domain. The ranking is by registrable domain, so www.example.com and blog.example.com share the rank of example.com.
Questions
Does this show how many visitors a site gets?
No, and no free tool can. Visits are only known to the site's owner (through their analytics) or estimated by paid services from private panels of users. A rank tells you roughly how a site compares with others, not how many people visit. A site at #100,000 is typically far bigger than one at #2,000,000, but the rank cannot be turned into an exact number of visits.
Why does my site not appear?
The list covers the few million most visited domains. New, small or niche sites, and sites with mostly direct or app traffic, are often missing. Being absent says "small", not "bad".
Why does a github.io or blogspot.com site show a huge rank?
Because the rank belongs to the whole platform. All the sites under it are counted together, so the page warns you when that happens.
Can the rank be faked?
It is hard. The list needs the same domain to appear in several independent sources over 30 days, which is why it is used in security research. It is still a signal, not a proof of quality.
See also the Domain Lookup for ownership and DNS records, the Archive tool for saved copies and Search Engines to search many engines at once.