SourceForge vs. TrustRadius
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 TrustRadius are both software B2B comparison websites, but as you can see from the data below, SourceForge gets a lot more traffic than TrustRadius.
This guide will describe the advantages that SourceForge has over TrustRadius.
According to Similarweb, SourceForge receives over 33 times the amount of website traffic that TrustRadius 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 TrustRadius.
Not only does SourceForge get over 33 times the total website traffic of TrustRadius, but according to Similarweb, SourceForge has a significantly higher percentage of desktop traffic than TrustRadius. According to Smart Insights, desktop users are 1.7 times more likely to convert than mobile users.
SourceForge website visitors view more pages than TrustRadius visitors. According to Similarweb, SourceForge visitors visit 3.8 pages per visit compared to 2.23 pages per visit for TrustRadius. SourceForge visitors spend almost double the time on site (2 minutes and 22 seconds on average) as TrustRadius visitors do (1 minute 12 seconds on average.)
Direct Traffic
As well as receiving over 33 times the total website traffic of TrustRadius, according to Similarweb, SourceForge gets more traffic just from people coming directly to SourceForge (typing 'sourceforge.net' into their browser) than TrustRadius 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 over 33 times the total website traffic of TrustRadius, according to Similarweb, SourceForge gets more traffic just from referring websites (websites that link to SourceForge.net) than TrustRadius 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.
