how does one see others traffic?
 

I'm starting to trade links, and I need to know how much traffic the sites I'm trading with get. How do I find this out? Doesn't google have a tool that shows sites amount of daily traffic?

If they have one of those graphic counters then you usually can check there for an idea. Other than that I think you would need access to their sever stats.

there is google pr and the alexa rating for what their worth.

Well here let me give you my users ID and password to my server's stats.


Yeah right :D

Since I don't use any of the free counters or any other stats program there really is no way of seeing my actually traffic numbers.

You can use Google to see what back links a domain has.

You can use Alexa to see a sites traffic ranking.