Ahrefs Traffic Checker & API: Bulk Website & Page Traffic

Ahrefs Traffic Checker & API: Bulk Website & Page Traffic

Check Ahrefs organic traffic for many websites, folders or single pages in one run: monthly search visits, traffic value, top pages, top countries, top keywords with positions and a monthly history. Pick the country to see the top pages and keywords there. Whole websites also get Domain Rating, keyword count, competitors and 12 months of traffic. Turn on the tracker to see how traffic changed since the last run and which new pages and keywords appeared.

{ "targets": ["ahrefs.com", "https://ahrefs.com/blog/", "https://backlinko.com/seo-checklist"] }

No Ahrefs account, no API key, no captcha tokens, no browser setup on your side. Works on the free Apify plan. Use it as a bulk Ahrefs website traffic checker, a page traffic checker for content audits, or an Ahrefs API alternative for competitor research, link prospecting and SEO reports.

What you get

Real example, 17 October 2026:

target	mode	organic traffic	traffic value	top page or keyword	DR
ahrefs.com	whole website	3,615,040	$5,198,192	/backlink-checker: 956,111 visits	91
https://ahrefs.com/blog/	folder (prefix)	140,218	$301,309	/blog/google-advanced-search-operators/: 10,932
https://ahrefs.com/blog/	exact page	11,377	$41,431	"ahrefs", position 1
https://backlinko.com/seo-checklist	exact page	1,052	$1,518	"seo basics checklist", position 2
danluu.com	whole website	916	$385	/keyboard-latency/: 215

Field	Description
target, input, mode	Checked domain or URL, what you entered, and how Ahrefs counted it: subdomains, domain, prefix, exact
organicTraffic, organicTrafficChange	Estimated monthly organic search visits (latest month) and change vs the previous month
organicTrafficMonthlyAvg	Average monthly traffic over the last 6 months
trafficValueUsd	What that traffic would cost in Google Ads per month, USD
topPages	Top 5 pages by traffic: URL, visits, share % (in the chosen country)
topCountries	Top 5 countries by share of traffic
topKeywords	Top 5 keywords: position, search volume (in the chosen country)
trafficHistory	Monthly organic traffic, last 6 months
country	Country of top pages and keywords, empty = worldwide
domainRating, organicKeywords, trafficRank, siteTitle	For whole websites in the Ahrefs Top index: DR, keyword count, rank by traffic, site name
countryTraffic	Exact monthly visits per country with the previous month (index)
competitors	Top competing websites: traffic, change, pages (index)
trafficHistory12Months	12 months of traffic and traffic value (index)
source	ahrefs_live (live check), ahrefs_live+top (plus index data), ahrefs_top (index only)
dataMonth, checkedAt	Month of the Ahrefs data, time of the run
Tracker fields	previousOrganicTraffic, organicTrafficChangeSinceLastRun, organicTrafficChangePercent, previousTrafficValueUsd, newTopPages, newTopKeywords, isNew, changed, lastCheckedAt

Website, folder or page

Target mode	Checks	Example
Auto (default)	Domains and homepages as the whole website, URLs with a path as that exact page	ahrefs.com, https://backlinko.com/seo-checklist
Whole website with subdomains	Everything on the domain, like Ahrefs shows by default	ahrefs.com
Domain only	The domain without its subdomains	ahrefs.com without docs.ahrefs.com
URL prefix	A folder or section with all its pages	https://ahrefs.com/blog/
Exact URL	One page	https://ahrefs.com/blog/seo-basics/

How it works

Step	What happens
1. Live check	Every target is checked live in Ahrefs' own free Traffic Checker with the target mode and country you chose. The Actor passes its human check itself, so you pay nothing extra for captcha solving
2. Index data	Whole websites are also looked up in Ahrefs Top, Ahrefs' public index of websites: DR, keyword count, exact traffic per country, competitors and 12 months of history, at no extra charge
3. Tracker	With Track changes on, every target's traffic, top pages and top keywords are remembered under the tracker name and compared on the next run

For long lists of popular domains set Live check to Only for websites missing from the free index: indexed websites then come from the index alone (no top pages), with no live check charge, about 8 domains a second.

Why this Actor

	This Actor
Page and folder traffic	Yes: exact URL, URL prefix, domain or whole website, per line
Top pages, countries, keywords	Yes, in one row, and by country
Free Apify plan	Yes: captcha solving is built in, not a paid third-party service
Bulk	Up to 5,000 targets a run; URLs, www. and duplicates cleaned
Changes since the last run	Yes: traffic change, new top pages and keywords, "only changed" mode
Failed checks	Free: you pay only for targets with data

Track traffic every month

1. Put your sites, competitors' sites or your most important pages into Websites, folders or pages.
2. Turn on Track changes between runs and give the list a Tracker name (e.g. competitors).
3. Schedule the Actor (Console → Schedules) weekly or monthly. Turn on Return only changed targets to pay the target charge only for targets whose traffic, top pages or keywords moved.

The Changes since last run view shows the old and new traffic, the change in % and new top pages and keywords.

Pricing

Pay per event:

Event	Free / Starter	Scale	Business
Target (one row with data)	$0.00499	$0.00449	$0.00399
Live check (one per target; not charged for index-only websites)	$0.006	$0.006	$0.006
Run start (per GB of memory)	$0.003	$0.003	$0.003

Examples on the Free plan, default 2 GB memory:

Run	Cost
100 websites or pages, live	100 × ($0.00499 + $0.006) = ~$1.10
1,000 popular domains, index only	~$5.00
Monthly tracker, 20 pages	~$0.23 a run

Targets with no data, invalid entries and failed live checks are free. Set a maximum cost per run in Console and the Actor stops at it.

Speed and memory

Live checks run in a browser: 1 at a time with the default 2 GB (about 15-40 seconds each), 2 with 3 GB, 4 with 4 GB of memory (about 3x faster for long lists, same cost per check). Index lookups run 8 at a time.

Other Ahrefs tools

Actor	What it does
Ahrefs DR Checker & API	Bulk Domain Rating, referring domains, organic traffic and traffic value for thousands of domains, 12-month history, DR and traffic change tracker
Ahrefs Backlink Checker & API	Top backlinks with anchors and linking DR, total backlinks and referring domains for many domains or exact pages, new backlinks tracker
Ahrefs Keyword Generator & API	Keyword ideas and questions with volume and difficulty for many seeds, exact KD, search volume and SERP for keyword lists, new ideas tracker

FAQ

How accurate is Ahrefs traffic? It is Ahrefs' estimate of organic search visits from the keywords a site ranks for, the same number Ahrefs shows in its Traffic Checker and Site Explorer. It does not include direct, social or paid traffic. Use it to compare sites and pages and to follow trends.

Why do the live and index numbers differ? The live check shows the latest month from the Traffic Checker; the index shows the month's snapshot from Ahrefs Top. trafficValueUsd of a live check is the monthly average of the last 6 months.

What does the country do? Top pages and top keywords come from Google in that country and their traffic is the traffic from that country. Total traffic, history and the country split stay worldwide, as in Ahrefs' tool.

Is this the official Ahrefs API? No. The official Ahrefs API needs a paid Ahrefs plan with API units. This Actor reads the same public numbers Ahrefs shows on its free pages, for any number of targets, without an Ahrefs account.

Why is a page empty? Ahrefs counts a page by its exact URL: semrush.com/blog/ has no data, https://www.semrush.com/blog/ has. Such rows come back with a note and no target charge; paste the URL as it opens in your browser.

What if a live check fails? The target comes back with an error and is not charged. Run it again later.

Use with the API and AI agents

Call the Actor from the Apify API, Python or JavaScript clients, Make, Zapier, n8n, or as a tool for AI agents through the Apify MCP server. Input is one JSON object, output is one JSON row per target.