Etherscan is by far the biggest block explorer out there, for the simple reason that it provides you with a concise and clean interface for interacting with your transactions. Etherscan is mainly a place to see what your transactions are actually doing after you deploy them. For instance, when you send 10 ETH to another address, you can't really know if it was successful or if there was some kind of mistake in the addresses that you used. Etherscan will show you exactly what happened and the reason why:
Let's say that someone stole 1 ETH from you because they got access to your Ethereum account. How ...