I just shipped a free tool and API to estimate website traffic.
It’s not perfectly precise, but it works well enough for my use case.
Here’s the idea:
There’s a public list called DomCop that ranks the top 10 million domains (based on backlinks).
I measured about 200K of them with a real traffic estimation API (DataForSEO) to get ground-truth data.
Then I built a regression model (thank you ChatGPT ) to estimate traffic for all the others.
Cost: ~€50 vs ~€2 500 for equivalent full-dataset data.
To be clear, tools like Ahrefs or DataForSEO go wayyyyy deeper:
- They crawl all the keywords a domain ranks for
- Check SERP positions + backlinks
- Estimate traffic from each keyword
- Then aggregate everything
That's how and why they make money!
My version is a lightweight cheap shortcut, way less precise, but good enough for trend detection, lead scoring, or curiosity.
If your domain is in the top 10 M, I’d love your feedback
jeanrokrupa•11h ago
It’s not perfectly precise, but it works well enough for my use case.
Here’s the idea: There’s a public list called DomCop that ranks the top 10 million domains (based on backlinks).
I measured about 200K of them with a real traffic estimation API (DataForSEO) to get ground-truth data.
Then I built a regression model (thank you ChatGPT ) to estimate traffic for all the others.
Cost: ~€50 vs ~€2 500 for equivalent full-dataset data.
To be clear, tools like Ahrefs or DataForSEO go wayyyyy deeper: - They crawl all the keywords a domain ranks for - Check SERP positions + backlinks - Estimate traffic from each keyword - Then aggregate everything That's how and why they make money!
My version is a lightweight cheap shortcut, way less precise, but good enough for trend detection, lead scoring, or curiosity.
If your domain is in the top 10 M, I’d love your feedback