A commercial recommendation prompt. We size how many people ask ChatGPT this from real search demand, then run it through ChatGPT to see which websites it recommends.
One of the 5 times we asked ChatGPT this, verbatim. The leaderboard below aggregates all 5 runs.
Aggregated across 5 runs (min 2/5 appearances). Estimated visits split the prompt's demand by rank. Sites matching the prompt's own brand are marked branded and excluded from the leaderboard.
| Rank | Website | Appears | Est. visits / mo | Est. value / mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | protonvpn.com | 5/5 | 2.1K | $1.5K |
| 2 | surfshark.com | 5/5 | 1.2K | $901 |
| 3 | nordvpn.com | 5/5 | 823 | $600 |
| 4 | expressvpn.com | 5/5 | 566 | $413 |
| 5 | vpnmentor.com | 5/5 | 412 | $300 |
| 6 | privateinternetaccess.com | 4/5 | 309 | $225 |
| 7 | cyberghostvpn.com | 3/5 | 226 | $165 |
| 8 | hide.me | 4/5 | 175 | $127 |
| 9 | windscribe.com | 4/5 | 134 | $97 |
| 10 | techradar.com | 5/5 | 103 | $75 |
| 11 | comparitech.com | 4/5 | 82 | $60 |
| 12 | hotspotshield.com | 3/5 | 62 | $45 |
| 13 | top10vpn.com | 2/5 | 51 | $37 |
| 14 | tomsguide.com | 4/5 | 41 | $30 |
| 15 | atlasvpn.com | 4/5 | 31 | $22 |
| 16 | cybernews.com | 2/5 | 26 | $18 |
| 17 | pcmag.com | 4/5 | 21 | $15 |
| 18 | tunnelbear.com | 3/5 | 15 | $11 |
| 19 | ipvanish.com | 3/5 | 12 | $9 |
| 20 | cnet.com | 3/5 | 10 | $7 |
ChatGPT doesn't publish prompts, so we don't show logged conversations. We measure real demand for this topic from Google search volume, scale it to ChatGPT's user base (on average about 1 ChatGPT user for every 8 Google searchers, a ratio that varies by topic), and run the prompt through ChatGPT 5 times to record which websites it recommends and in what order. Estimated visits split that demand across the recommended sites by a click-through-by-rank curve. Every number is a modeled estimate, not measured analytics. Full methodology →