I always want to know how my site is doing, from day to day what sort of visits I get and how it stacks up compared to other websites.
Alexa is your answer to this. It checks site day to day and sees how they rate up. You are giving a hit rate (percentage) and a traffic rating.
Founded in April 1996, Alexa Internet grew out of a vision of Web navigation that is intelligent and constantly improving with the participation of its users. Along the way Alexa has developed an installed based of millions of toolbars, one of the largest Web crawls and an infrastructure to process and serve massive amounts of data.
For users of Alexa’s Toolbar and web site this has resulted in products that have revolutionized Web navigation and intelligence. For developers this has resulted in a set of tools unprecedented in scope allowing whole new services to be created on the Alexa data and platform.
I regularly check my rank and my current three month rank is just over 1,000,000 (current week 100,000)
This makes me the 1,000,000 most viewed website in the last three months.