Is there any way to discover the traffic of a site I don't control?

Posted by George Bailey on Pro Webmasters See other posts from Pro Webmasters or by George Bailey
Published on 2012-08-20T20:14:22Z Indexed on 2013/10/25 16:12 UTC
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Given the following:

The website does not call any external images or scripts, all the content is hosted on a server that is in our control.
The website does not contain the meta tag, nor does it contain the html file that would authorize a Google Account access to Webmaster Tools.
The access logs have not been provided to any 2nd or 3rd party.

Is it possible for a 3rd party to get an idea of how many hits the site is getting, or are they limited to just seeing how high the site ranks? How could the 3rd party determine how well the site is doing under these restrictions? Is there a website for that that you know of?

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