How to Find Competitors Traffic Sources
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Is it possible to find out where traffic is coming from on someone else website?
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I like SEMRush. They give a lot of data about both organic and paid search.
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I think Similar Web is the best (closest to real data when compared to sites I have analytics on) and SEMrush is also valuable to get another dataset.
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Hey Hall,
For this kind of analysis, I always recommend and personally use Similar Web. It gives you all the insights of traffic sources, last 6 months traffic stats, top referring sites and tons of other great info.
Hope this helps!
Umar
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Hi Michael,
You are in right place. Use can use Moz Open site Explore ( OSE ) https://mza.seotoolninja.com/researchtools/ose/ to find more about your competitors link profile . Read more here : https://mza.seotoolninja.com/help/guides/research-tools/open-site-explorer.
Also you have other tool like "Ahrefs" - https://ahrefs.com/ which gives you even much sophisticated data . Hope it answers your question.
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