SourceForge vs. G2
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 G2 are both B2B software comparison websites, but as you can see from the data below, SourceForge gets a lot more traffic than G2.
This guide will describe the advantages that SourceForge has over G2.
According to Similarweb, SourceForge receives nearly 7 times the amount of website traffic that G2 receives. It's important to note that SourceForge's traffic is 100% organic and SourceForge does not pay for any traffic whatsoever. SourceForge has over 4000 B2B software categories, which means SourceForge has double the amount of software categories that G2 has.
Not only does SourceForge get nearly 7 times the total website traffic of G2, but according to Similarweb, SourceForge has a significantly higher percentage of desktop traffic than G2. According to Smart Insights, desktop users are 1.7 times more likely to convert than mobile users.
SourceForge website visitors view more pages than G2 visitors. According to Similarweb, SourceForge visitors visit 3.8 pages per visit compared to 2.89 pages per visit for G2.
Direct Traffic
As well as receiving nearly 7 times the total website traffic of G2, according to Similarweb, SourceForge gets more traffic just from people coming directly to SourceForge (typing 'sourceforge.net' into their browser) than G2 gets from all channels combined (search, direct, referral, 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 7 times the total website traffic of G2, according to Similarweb, SourceForge gets more traffic just from referring websites (websites that link to SourceForge.net) than G2 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.
