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by martin-adams 3912 days ago
Just looked at similar web and tested 3 sites I work with. They are pretty accurate on their traffic estimates. Anyone know how that is calculated?
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Estimated using samples gathered with analytics through third-party browser plugins.

http://support.similarweb.com/customer/en/portal/articles/13...

I think they use DNS data to estimate the amount of traffic.