When Google Analytics isn't active for a website, can Googlebot (or any other Google entity) get any traffic stats about that website in any other way?
Can Googlebot read any hosting stats?
analytics;googlebot;traffic
No. Not really.Google can use Adsense data for some things and of course if you use Google Analytics you have given them some valuable information.But if you think this bleeds over to search performance, it doesn't.If you do not use Adsense of Analytics then the only data Google has is search performance and click through rate (CTR) which does effect search performance.For Google, this is the end of the story. For the sake of education, I will go a bit further.As for anyone else, there are some tools that exist including crawling any performance stats you post. Search engines do not do this except for search if you allow it. However, there have been cases where people have tried to use this data intelligently. There are cases where this data is useful, but not generally for building performance analysis sites. The data does not exist for enough sites and is far too limited in scope to measure.Amazon and other tool bar issuers, and this can include Google, can potentially track user behavior. But it is user data and not site data. However, much of this extrapolated data and if you know about Amazon, their numbers and data is pure junk. I do not believe that Google tracks or takes any of this data seriously. From a statistical analysis perspective, it is impossible to gauge a sites performance upon a self-selective group and it is further impossible to extrapolate performance data when you do not know what you do not know. The Amazon model, for example, is horribly flawed and impossible to fix. Google is smart enough not to step in this trap.Otherwise, if you are asking if a site you build can measure the performance of another site simply through observational methods. Then the answer is a resounding No.For many performance analysis sites, there exists a dependency upon some sort of mechanism; JavaScript/Java (known as a bug) or an image. You would have to install this bug or image for each site that wants to be measured.