How Many Visitors Should Your Website Get? [Data from 400+ Web Traffic Analysts]

If you run a website, then you've likely spent time creating and optimizing a marketing strategy to drive traffic to your website. But how many visitors should you aim for your website to get?

To answer that question, you will need to complete the following steps: 

• determine how many visitors are typical to websites in your industry
• determine how many visitors are "good" for websites in your industry
• establish a goal based on variables like industry, size, and user experience and create an action plan to achieve it

In this post, we'll walk through how to complete each of these steps. Feel free to jump on one of the links above to skip to that step. Otherwise, let's get started. 

How many visitors does a website typically get?

It depends. With over 1.9 billion websites on the internet today, it is impossible to provide one number, or even a range, to accurately answer this question. Fortunately, there is data as well as tools and other resources to help you make an educated guess for websites in your industry.

Going off of pure numbers can be a good start to understanding customer behavior. HubSpot's recent web traffic analytics report yields information like only 31% of websites receive more than 50,000 unique visitors per month, ~50% of websites get 4-6 page views per visit, the biggest source of traffic is direct (22%), and more. 

However, it's easy to get lost in the data, so it's good to see what the experts have to say. To this end, the HubSpot Blog surveyed over 400 web traffic analysts in the U.S. to gather data on various metrics including their monthly traffic, bounce rate, click-through rate, and the strategies they use to rank on search engine results pages.

The majority tracked analytics for B2C websites, while the rest tracked for B2B sites. Thanks to this survey, we can provide some answers for how many visitors a website typically gets and where these visitors come from. 

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