Similarweb Traffic Scraper

Tested head-to-head — 9 October 2026

We sent the same 10 domains (apify.com, canva.com, notion.so, figma.com, shopify.com, stripe.com, airbnb.com, zapier.com, hubspot.com, mailchimp.com) to this Actor and to the four Similarweb scrapers with the most monthly users on Apify Store (A–D, most users first).

• Data: 54 filled fields per domain — visits with history, ranks, engagement, traffic sources, countries, keywords, similar sites, audience, technologies and company size and revenue. The others fill 16–42.
• Rows: 10 of 10 domains with data, like every other Actor in the test.
• Price: $4.00 per 1,000 domains and no start fee. Two Actors are cheaper ($2.00–$3.00 per 1,000 plus a start fee) with 19–21 fields; two cost more ($5.00 and $13.00).
• Speed: 85.7 s for the 10 domains, slower than three of the four (4.4–36.1 s): Similarweb's page has to be opened through an unblocking proxy.

What is Similarweb Traffic Scraper?

Similarweb Traffic Scraper pulls the traffic data Similarweb shows for any website: monthly visits with a 3-month history, global, country and category rank, bounce rate, pages per visit, visit duration, top countries, top keywords, similar sites, audience age and gender, technologies, and company size and revenue. Paste a list of domains and get one clean row per site, ready to compare competitors, qualify leads or size a market.

• ✅ No Similarweb account, login or API key
• ✅ 50+ fields per domain, including company and audience data that most Similarweb scrapers skip
• ✅ Bulk: thousands of domains in one run, 10 at a time
• ✅ Pay only for domains with data: bad input, unknown domains and failed pages are free

What data can it extract?

Group	Fields
Traffic	monthlyVisits, monthlyVisitsChange, monthlyVisitsHistory (3 months), visitsGrade, snapshotMonth
Engagement	bounceRate, pagesPerVisit, avgVisitDuration, avgVisitDurationSeconds
Ranks	globalRank, countryRank, countryCode, categoryRank, their monthly change and 3-month history
Sources	trafficSources, organicSearchShare, paidSearchShare, socialNetworks, topReferringSites, referringSitesTotal, topAdSources, topOutgoingSites
Geography	topCountries (share and change), countriesTotal
Search	topKeywords (keyword, CPC), keywordsTotal
Competition	similarSites (domain, category, rank, affinity), alsoVisitedSites, audienceInterests
Audience	genderMale, genderFemale, ageDistribution
Technology	technologies (category, top technology, count), technologiesTotal
Company	companyName, companyFoundedYear, companyHqCountry, companyHqCity, companyEmployeesMin/Max, companyRevenueMinUsd/MaxUsd
Other	category, description, icon, screenshotDesktop, url, scrapedAt

Similarweb shows some of these only for sites with enough traffic. For a small site you still get visits, bounce rate, pages per visit, top country and keywords; ranks, audience and company fields stay null.

How much does it cost to scrape Similarweb?

Pay per result: $4 per 1,000 domains on the Free plan, with discounts on paid Apify plans (down to $2.80 per 1,000 on Gold). There is no start fee.

• You pay only for rows of type domain.
• notice rows (Similarweb has no data for the domain) and error rows (not a domain, page did not open) are free.
• The Apify Free plan's monthly credit covers roughly 1,000 domains.

How to scrape Similarweb data

1. Click Try for free.
2. Paste domains into Websites, one per line. apify.com, https://www.apify.com/pricing and https://www.similarweb.com/website/apify.com/ all work.
3. Click Start and wait. 10 domains run at the same time; in our 9 October 2026 test most domains took 16–27 seconds and the run of 10 domains finished in 86 seconds.
4. Download the results as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML, or read them through the API.

⬇️ Input

{
  "websites": ["apify.com", "canva.com", "booking.com"]
}

Field	Type	Description
websites	array of strings	Domains, website URLs or Similarweb links. Duplicates are removed. Required.

⬆️ Output

One row per domain. Shortened example for canva.com:

{
  "type": "domain",
  "domain": "canva.com",
  "snapshotMonth": "2026-09",
  "monthlyVisits": 946234786,
  "monthlyVisitsChange": 0.095503,
  "monthlyVisitsHistory": [
    { "month": "2026-07", "visits": 829037409 },
    { "month": "2026-08", "visits": 868319541 },
    { "month": "2026-09", "visits": 946234786 }
  ],
  "bounceRate": 0.28049,
  "pagesPerVisit": 5.9,
  "avgVisitDuration": "00:05:40",
  "globalRank": 32,
  "countryCode": "US",
  "countryRank": 53,
  "categoryRank": 1,
  "topCountries": [{ "countryCode": "US", "share": 0.196145, "shareChange": 0.106285 }],
  "topKeywords": [{ "keyword": "canva", "cpc": 0.72, "volume": null, "estimatedValue": null }],
  "similarSites": [{ "domain": "adobe.com", "category": "computers_electronics_and_technology/computers_electronics_and_technology", "categoryRank": 4, "affinity": 1 }],
  "genderFemale": 0.601073,
  "companyName": "Canva",
  "companyFoundedYear": 2012,
  "companyHqCountry": "AU",
  "companyEmployeesMin": 1001,
  "companyEmployeesMax": 5000,
  "companyRevenueMinUsd": 1000000000
}

Free rows look like this:

{ "type": "notice", "domain": "tiny-site-example.com", "message": "Similarweb has no traffic data for this domain (too little traffic). Not charged." }

Use cases

Competitor research

Track visits, ranks and traffic sources of your competitors every month and spot who is growing.

Lead qualification and sales prospecting

Enrich a list of company websites with traffic, employee count and revenue range to prioritise accounts.

Market and investment research

Size a niche by summing visits of its top sites, compare growth month over month, check audience countries.

SEO and marketing

See the top keywords, organic vs paid search split, social networks and referring sites of any domain.

AI agents and RAG

The output is flat, typed JSON with every field described, so an AI agent can call the Actor with a list of domains and reason over the result directly.

Integrations

• API: start runs and read results from any language with the Apify API, or the Python and JavaScript clients.
• No-code: n8n, Make, Zapier, Google Sheets and webhooks through Apify integrations.
• Scheduling: run monthly on a schedule to build your own traffic history.
• MCP: AI agents find and run the Actor through the Apify MCP server.

Troubleshooting

• A domain came back as notice: Similarweb has no estimate for sites with very little traffic. You were not charged.
• A domain came back as error: the page did not open after several tries. You were not charged; run that domain again later.
• Many fields are null: normal for small sites. Similarweb shows ranks, audience and company data only above a traffic threshold.
• Only the first traffic source has a share: Similarweb shows the other shares only to signed-in customers. The rank order of channels is still given where Similarweb shows it.

❓ FAQ

Is it legal to scrape Similarweb?

The Actor reads only the public website-analysis pages that anyone can open without an account. It does not log in or bypass paywalls. Check Similarweb's terms and your local laws for your use case, especially if you republish the data.

Do I need a Similarweb account or API key?

No.

How fresh is the data?

Similarweb updates its monthly estimates once a month. snapshotMonth tells you which month the numbers belong to.

How accurate are Similarweb numbers?

They are Similarweb's estimates, the same numbers its website shows. Use them to compare sites and trends, not as exact analytics.

Can I scrape subdomains?

Yes, if Similarweb has a page for them (for example docs.google.com).

Your feedback

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