SourceForge vs. Gartner Peer Insights
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 Gartner Peer Insights are both B2B software comparison websites, but as you can see from the data below, SourceForge gets a lot more traffic than Gartner Peer Insights.
This guide will describe the advantages that SourceForge has over Gartner Peer Insights.
According to Similarweb, SourceForge receives nearly 7 times the amount of website traffic that Gartner Peer Insights 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 over 6 times more B2B software categories than Gartner Peer Insights.
Not only does SourceForge get nearly 7 times the total website traffic of Gartner Peer Insights, but according to Similarweb, SourceForge has a significantly higher percentage of desktop traffic than Gartner Peer Insights, with 83.8% of SourceForge traffic being desktop traffic. According to Smart Insights, desktop users are 1.7 times more likely to convert than mobile users.
SourceForge website visitors view more pages than Gartner Peer Insights visitors. According to Similarweb, SourceForge visitors visit 3.8 pages per visit compared to 3.54 pages per visit for Gartner Peer Insights.
Direct Traffic
As well as receiving nearly 7 times the total website traffic of Gartner Peer Insights, according to Similarweb, SourceForge gets more traffic just from people coming directly to SourceForge (typing 'sourceforge.net' into their browser) than Gartner Peer Insights 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 Gartner Peer Insights, according to Similarweb, SourceForge gets more traffic just from referring websites (websites that link to SourceForge.net) than Gartner Peer Insights 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.
