Measure Traffic with the Google Web Site Trends Bookmarklet

Google yesterday added a significant feature to Google Trends. You can now enter in URLs and get back rather rich site traffic data. Barry Schwartz has a great rundown. I will have more to say about this shortly as I play with it over the weekend. However, in the meantime, I wanted to share this bookmarklet I created.

All you need to do is drag the link below to your bookmarks. If you're on a web site and you want to know its traffic is, just hit the link and if it's big enough to be in the Google Trends database, you will get back data.

Google Web Site Trends This!

Comments

[Roland Hesz]

Lets try it!

Your terms - http://www.micropersuasion.com - could not be interpreted.

Suggestions:

* Try removing colons : and brackets [ ] { } from your search terms.

Ok, again:

Your terms - micropersuasion.com - do not have enough search volume to show graphs.

Suggestions:

* Make sure all words are spelled correctly.* Try different keywords.* Try more general keywords.* Try fewer keywords.* Try viewing data for all years and all regions.



Terrific. How does it work actually?

[Steve Rubel]

Roland the bookmarklet works here on FF and Safari. However, not all sites are in the Google Trends database. Barry covers it in his rundown.

[Roland Hesz]

Ok, warning everyone!

There is with SMALL letter a Search and Website option.Choose the website :)

Note to google: Make it visible, don't hide it.Also it does not work for sites with smaller traffic.I wonder what the treshold is.

[Roland Hesz]

Steve, I found the problem (and I used your site just to be sure it has hits :) ), I don't noticed the small links.

[mathew sweezey]

I love Google trends. Check out Wordtracker GTrends. ITs a mashup Ed Dale made which will tell you the number of clicks for keywords in google. You should be able to create the same for Google Trends websites so you can see the exact traffic numbers.

[Matt Cutts]

Steve, this is pretty cool! I added this to my bookmark bar..

[Douglas Karr]

The most interesting thing that I've noticed about this is that Google leaves out Google.com, YouTube.com and Blogger.com... but they gladly show Microsoft.com, Yahoo.com, Metacafe.com, Wordpres.com, etc.

Sort of evil to expose your competition but not yourself, isn't it?

[judy]

I dont understand this - you say "link below" and there is no link and drag it to your bookmarks. I use Google bookmarks. Anyway can you tell me where is the link to drag and where do I drag it to in G bookmarks?

[Todd Sieling]

Very slick, Steve. Thanks for sharing this.

[Mrinal]

This is very neat, Steve - thanks for creating the bookmarklet!