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title: SourceForge vs. Gartner Peer Insights
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createdAt: 2024-02-10T22:51:15.684Z
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**SourceForge gets over 21 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](docId\:iaAd_RCJnmJz70HUuAv5N) or check out [everything SourceForge offers software vendors](https://sourceforge.net/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.
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## SourceForge Traffic vs. Gartner Peer Insights Traffic

According to Similarweb, SourceForge receives *nearly 11 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.

### Total Visits

![SourceForge vs. Gartner Peer Insights Total Web Traffic](https://api.archbee.com/api/optimize/cDRxumnUYS7OYDDxJSrpv/LzupMPFWULt0gayZR7bpA-20251209-200854.png "Source: Similarweb")

### Desktop vs. Mobile Traffic

Not only does SourceForge get nearly 11 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 86.2% of SourceForge traffic being desktop traffic. According to [Smart Insights](https://www.smartinsights.com/ecommerce/ecommerce-analytics/ecommerce-conversion-rates/), desktop users are 1.7 times more likely to convert than mobile users.

![SourceForge vs. Gartner  Desktop vs. Mobile Traffic](https://api.archbee.com/api/optimize/cDRxumnUYS7OYDDxJSrpv/Jus6xmXL691O0zyCD656H-20251209-201043.png "Source: Similarweb")

### Buyer Engagement

SourceForge website visitors view more pages than Gartner Peer Insights visitors. According to Similarweb, SourceForge visitors visit 4.19 pages per visit compared to 3.02 pages per visit for Gartner Peer Insights.

![](https://api.archbee.com/api/optimize/cDRxumnUYS7OYDDxJSrpv/fw-msyq0xFIxSjUEDQf89-20251209-201209.png)

![SourceForge vs. Gartner Engagement](https://api.archbee.com/api/optimize/cDRxumnUYS7OYDDxJSrpv/YuMTgfHCtvzEbnkCaFyN2-20251209-201234.png "Source: Similarweb")

## Traffic Sources

**Direct Traffic**

As well as receiving nearly 11 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.

![SourceForge vs. Gartner Traffic Sources](https://api.archbee.com/api/optimize/ivYERdYRKEo2ey04FSTS6-K9Y77PNS9-yIkpY1qAi0J-20250215-000750.png "Source: Similarweb")

**Referral Traffic**

As well as receiving nearly 11 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).

## Additional SourceForge Benefits

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.

![](https://api.archbee.com/api/optimize/ivYERdYRKEo2ey04FSTS6-7GZzMO3jAIdRl12Ia1i1j-20250213-015356.png)

![SourceForge vs Gartner vs Others](https://api.archbee.com/api/optimize/cDRxumnUYS7OYDDxJSrpv/atzdlXODvChgT786eidI--20251209-201404.png "Source: Similarweb")