After a lot of guessing and debating, Google has launched its own version of traffic analysis in the line of alexa, compete, quantcast et al. Google calls it “Google Trends for Websites”. There’s a high speculation from where the data comes – Google toolbar or Google Analytics or both.
Google trends tool provides you search volume index, unique daily visitors across the geographies and years. This means you can now see a traffic pattern of a website in 2006, 2007 and compare with 2008.
The rocking features of the trends tools are “Also visited” and . Now you can find out how many people searched for facebook and how many people went
A disclaimer note from Official Google Webmaster Central Blog
“Keep in mind that Trends for Websites is a Google Labs product and that we are experimenting with ways to improve the quality of the data. Because data is estimated and aggregated over a variety of sources, it may not match the other data sources you rely on for web traffic information.”
There has been a mixed feelings among the internet marketing professionals over the accuracy and privacy of the valuable traffic information.
Do check the comments at Webmasterworld or the Mattcuts blog
What are you waiting for – It’s free to try out -> http://trends.google.com/websites
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