Similarweb | best bet to analyze web traffic data
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Similarweb's platform enables us to find the target audience for our brand or the company. It gives us a clear idea who should be our target as it has bifurcation available based on gender and age groups. Not only limited to that, Similarweb also gives us an idea about traffic share by country, which helps us to evaluate which country we are getting the most hits from.
Pros
- Similarweb gives details about traffic share by country; therefore, it gives us a clear idea about traffic segregation on a country basis
- Similarweb also gives us demographic data, which helps us analyze the users who are visiting the website and helps us determine our target audience
- Recently, SimilarWeb has also introduced audience overlap data, which helps us to analyse shared unique visitors over time and the website's audience loyalty
Cons
- There are a lot of functionalities that have been in beta for a long period of time
- Desktop Demographics: Age (Traffic Share) and Desktop Demographics: Gender (Traffic Share) are not available on website. User has to access API sheet for the same
- Similarly, Mobile Web Demographics: Age (Traffic Share)
- Mobile Web Demographics: Gender (Traffic Share) are not available on website pull
Likelihood to Recommend
Similarweb has been really helpful whenever we are trying to access the demographics or visitors over time for a particualar period of time. It also has excellent coverage of traffic and engagement over time, which gives us a clear understanding of unique/repeated visitors, duration, pages per visit, bounce rate, etc. However, we recently encountered an issue related to a particular website where we were getting the data on the platform but on API sheet we were getting no values.
