🌐 Alternative Websites & Competitor Traffic Locator Actor

Extract competitor websites, traffic estimates, taxonomy category rankings, country ranks, favicons and page preview screenshots for any domain name.

This edge-optimized intelligence tool maps competitor websites and aggregates key traffic metrics. It is built to power marketing analysis, competitive benchmarking, SEO content strategies, lead generation outreach, and domain profiling.

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🌟 Key Features

• Competitor Mapping: Instantly discover up to 20 alternative websites related to your target domain.
• Deep Traffic Metrics: Retrieve monthly traffic estimates, global rank indicators, and category placement standings for both target and competitor sites.
• Geographic Insights: Extract country codes and corresponding geographic ranking positions to analyze demographic overlaps.
• Taxonomy Classification: Retrieve category classifications (e.g. Computers_Electronics_and_Technology/Search_Engines) and category rankings.
• Visual Assets: Obtain high-quality site thumbnails and favicons for visual cataloging and reporting dashboards.
• Tabular Data Splits: Automatically maps competitor items into clean rows on the Apify console for seamless exports.

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📥 Input Parameters

Field	Type	Description	Prefill Example
Target Domain	string	The domain name to find alternative websites for.	similarsites.com

Input JSON Example

{
  "domain": "similarsites.com"
}

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📤 Output Data Structure

The dataset outputs clean table rows mapping the competitor details and the original target domain's metrics side-by-side:

Output JSON Example

{
  "success": true,
  "target_domain": "similarsites.com",
  "competitor_site": "bing.com",
  "competitor_title": "microsoft",
  "competitor_description": "Microsoft Search Engine",
  "competitor_visits": 3761601252.85,
  "competitor_global_rank": 10,
  "competitor_category_rank": 2,
  "competitor_top_country": 840,
  "competitor_top_country_rank": 7,
  "competitor_thumbnail": "https://site-images.similarcdn.com/image?url=bing.com&t=1&h=...",
  "target_title": "Similarsites.com - Easily Explore alternative websites",
  "target_description": "discover the best websites...",
  "target_visits": 2720872.41,
  "target_category": "Computers_Electronics_and_Technology/Search_Engines",
  "target_category_rank": 262,
  "target_top_country": 360,
  "target_thumbnail": "https://site-images.similarcdn.com/image?url=similarsites.com&t=1&h=...",
  "target_favicon": "https://site-images.similarcdn.com/image?url=similarsites.com&t=2&h=..."
}