--- title: How to check your own website traffic accurately | daily.dev description: A practical guide to measuring your own website traffic accurately using first-party analytics. Covers installing a tracking script, choosing meaningful date... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-check-your-own-website-traffic-accurately-ik83ixav4 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How to check your own website traffic accurately | daily.dev og:description: A practical guide to measuring your own website traffic accurately using first-party analytics. Covers installing a tracking script, choosing meaningful date... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-check-your-own-website-traffic-accurately-ik83ixav4 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ik83ixav4.png og:image:alt: How to check your own website traffic accurately og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How to check your own website traffic accurately **[Plausible Analytics](https://daily.dev/sources/plausible-blog)** · 16 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A practical guide to measuring your own website traffic accurately using first-party analytics. Covers installing a tracking script, choosing meaningful date ranges, understanding visitors vs visits vs pageviews, identifying traffic sources, analyzing page performance, tagging campaigns with UTM parameters, setting up conversion goals, and diagnosing sudden traffic spikes or drops. Also explains why public traffic estimator tools (Semrush, Similarweb) cannot replace first-party analytics for measuring your own site. Ends with a simple weekly traffic review routine. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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