Website Traffic Checker: Site Rank, Popularity and Age
Free website traffic checker: a site's popularity rank, a rough estimate of its monthly visits, a history chart, the phone / desktop split of real Chrome visitors, domain age, hosting and what technology it uses.
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 shows a site's public popularity rank and turns it into a rough range of monthly visits (worked out from sites whose traffic is roughly known, so treat it as a ballpark, not a count). It also shows how its rank has moved, how old the domain is, who hosts it and when the Internet Archive first saved it.
Things to know
The public list only goes back 30 days, so mes.fm keeps every daily rank it sees: the more a site is checked, the longer its chart grows.
Real Chrome visitors (Google)
Cloudflare Radar
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 …), a rough range of monthly visits worked out from that rank, and the 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.
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, a rough estimate of monthly visits, a history chart (so you can see whether it is growing), the phone / desktop split and speed of real Chrome visitors, 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?
Only as an estimate. Real visits are known to the site's owner (through their analytics); paid services such as Similarweb estimate them from private panels of users. This page turns the public rank into a range using a curve fitted to about thirty sites whose monthly visits are roughly known (from Google and YouTube down to small calculator sites). Real sites sit up to about three times either side of that curve, so the page shows a range such as “5M to 48M”, not a single number. It is good for “is this site big or small, and is it growing”, not for exact figures.
Where does the phone / desktop split come from?
From Google's Chrome UX Report: anonymous data from Chrome users who share usage statistics, published for every site with enough visitors. It is real data, but it covers Chrome only, and only sites big enough to be included. Unlike the rank, it works per address, so it can show a subdomain such as mail.google.com on its own.
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.