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 | sourceforge.net | 5/5 | 124 | $35 |
| 2 | alternativeto.net | 5/5 | 74 | $21 |
| 3 | majorgeeks.com | 4/5 | 50 | $14 |
| 4 | snapfiles.com | 5/5 | 34 | $9 |
| 5 | github.com | 4/5 | 25 | $7 |
| 6 | filehippo.com | 4/5 | 19 | $5 |
| 7 | softpedia.com | 4/5 | 14 | $3 |
| 8 | cnet.com | 4/5 | 11 | $3 |
| 9 | freewarefiles.com | 3/5 | 8 | $2 |
| 10 | fosshub.com | 3/5 | 6 | $1 |
| 11 | opensource.com | 3/5 | 5 | $1 |
| 13 | oracle.com | 3/5 | 3 | $0 |
| 14 | postgresql.org | 3/5 | 2 | $0 |
| 15 | download.cnet.com | 2/5 | 2 | $0 |
| 16 | portablefreeware.com | 2/5 | 2 | $0 |
| 17 | portableapps.com | 2/5 | 1 | $0 |
| 18 | sqlite.org | 4/5 | 1 | $0 |
| 19 | mysql.com | 2/5 | 1 | $0 |
| 20 | db-engines.com | 2/5 | 1 | $0 |
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 →