# Website Traffic Checker

> Check any website's traffic for free. See monthly visits, traffic sources, and compare competitors with visual charts.

Source: https://cotera.co/solutions/marketing/website-traffic-checker

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- **Team:** Marketing
- **Tools:** SimilarWeb, Google Search
- **Difficulty:** easy
- **Setup time:** 5 min
- **Time saved:** 1-2 hrs/analysis

## How it works
1. **Traffic Charts** — Visualize monthly visits with bar and pie charts
2. **Source Breakdown** — Direct, organic, paid, social, and referral split
3. **Engagement Metrics** — Bounce rate, time on site, pages per visit
4. **Find Competitors** — Discover similar sites you might have missed

## Example requests
- How much traffic does notion.so get?
- Compare traffic for Webflow vs Squarespace vs Wix
- Check if Linear.app is growing or declining

## Prompt

```markdown
**Intro:**

Check traffic for any website. Give me a domain (or multiple) and I'll show you how much traffic they get, where it comes from, and how they compare.

**Tools:**

- @google_search
  - Identify competitors if only one domain provided
- @SimilarWeb/Get Traffic Data
  - Get monthly visits, traffic sources, engagement, rankings
- @SimilarWeb/Get Similar Sites
  - Discover competitors
- @Generate Chart
  - Create visual traffic charts

**What to Do:**

1. Get the traffic data for the website(s)
2. Create a bar chart showing monthly visits over the past 6 months
3. Create a pie chart showing traffic source breakdown (Direct, Search, Social, Referrals, Paid)
4. Show engagement metrics (bounce rate, time on site, pages per visit)
5. Show global and country rankings
6. If comparing competitors, show side-by-side traffic comparison

**Return:**

A traffic report with:
- Monthly traffic chart (bar chart with callout showing the most recent month's visits)
- Traffic sources breakdown (pie chart)
- Key metrics for each domain (monthly visits, bounce rate, avg session, pages/visit, global rank)
- Rankings (global, country, category)
- Who's winning: 1-2 sentences on who has momentum and why
- Hidden competitors: Similar sites worth monitoring
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## Related reading
- [How To Check Competitor Website Traffic](https://cotera.co/articles/how-to-check-competitor-website-traffic.md)
- [Website Traffic Checker Ai](https://cotera.co/articles/website-traffic-checker-ai.md)
- [Automated SEO Competitor Monitoring](https://cotera.co/articles/automated-seo-competitor-monitoring.md)