SourceForge vs. Capterra
SourceForge gets nearly 20 million visitors per month looking for software.
Once these potential buyers are on SourceForge's website, vendors upgraded listings get prioritized heavily on all pages relevant to their software including software category pages, comparison pages, alternatives pages, competitor pages, and integrations pages. Learn more about SourceForge Traffic or check out everything SourceForge offers software vendors.
SourceForge and Capterra are both B2B software comparison websites, but as you can see from the data below, SourceForge gets a lot more traffic than Capterra, and offers fixed price plans for vendors with unlimited clicks instead of a pay-per-click model.
This guide will describe the advantages that SourceForge has over Capterra.
According to Similarweb, SourceForge receives nearly 8 times the amount of website traffic that Capterra receives. It's important to note that SourceForge's traffic is 100% organic and SourceForge does not pay for any traffic whatsoever, while Capterra does pay for a portion of their website traffic (according to Similarweb.) SourceForge has over 4000 B2B software categories, which means SourceForge has over 4 times more B2B software categories than Capterra.
Not only does SourceForge get nearly 8 times the total website traffic of Capterra, but according to Similarweb, SourceForge has a significantly higher percentage of desktop traffic than Capterra. According to Smart Insights, desktop users are 1.7 times more likely to convert than mobile users.
SourceForge website visitors view more pages than Capterra visitors. According to Similarweb, SourceForge visitors visit 3.8 pages per visit compared to 1.95 pages per visit for Capterra.
In addition, SourceForge visitors spend over twice the amount of time on SourceForge (2 minutes and 22 seconds average visit duration) compared to Capterra visitors (1 minute 8 seconds average visit duration.)
Direct Traffic
As well as receiving nearly 8 times the total website traffic of Capterra, according to Similarweb, SourceForge gets more traffic just from people coming directly to SourceForge (typing 'sourceforge.net' into their browser) than Capterra gets from all channels combined (search, direct, referral, paid, etc).
Just like you may go directly to amazon.com to make a purchase, millions of people per month come directly to sourceforge.net to find software, bypassing search engines altogether.
Referral Traffic
As well as receiving nearly 8 times the total website traffic of Capterra, according to Similarweb, SourceForge gets more traffic just from referring websites (websites that link to SourceForge.net) than Capterra gets from all channels combined (search, direct, referral, etc).
When software vendors upgrade their listing, not only do they get exposure to SourceForge's huge traffic of in-market software shoppers, but they'll also get a complimentary listing on another industry leading B2B software comparison website.
Both SourceForge and Capterra are free to use for software buyers browsing for software, and both SourceForge and Capterra offer a free plan for software vendors to edit their listing. SourceForge's free plan for vendors also offers a limited Buyer Intent Data preview.
For vendors looking to upgrade to generate new customers, Capterra operates on a pay per click model while SourceForge operates on fixed pricing plans and does not charge per click. In other words, when software vendors upgrade their listing on SourceForge, they'll pay a simple fixed price and can receive as many clicks as possible from potential buyers without having to pay more per click.