This number is an estimation of how much organic search traffic your target website, subfolder or URL gets each month.
How it’s calculated:
We find all the keywords for which your target ranks in the top 100 organic search results.
We estimate the search traffic your target gets from each of those keywords based on its ranking position, monthly search volume and our estimated CTR for that position.
We sum up the traffic estimations of each keyword
Remember to treat the organic traffic estimations in Ahrefs as precisely that: estimations. While these estimates don’t, and can’t, show you exactly how much organic traffic a website gets, they work incredibly well for comparison. For example, it’s fantastic for learning if your competitors’ websites get more or less organic search traffic than your own.
Although sometimes our estimations can have discrepancy, it is highly consistent. As such, you can use the following formula to estimate your competitor's traffic:
FAQs
How come this number doesn’t match what I see in Google Search Console?
The number that Ahrefs shows is an estimate, not the actual search traffic data of a website. It’s not possible for all the variables in our traffic estimation formula to be 100% accurate. Learn why
How come this number doesn’t match what I see in Google Analytics?
While Ahrefs shows an estimate of the search traffic of a website, Google Analytics shows total traffic (direct, paid, social, etc). So these two figures are likely to be quite different.
How is your CTR calculated?
For most keywords, we apply average CTR values to estimate the amount of clicks at each position.
How do your traffic estimations match up against other SEO tools’?
We will, of course, tell you that we have the best quality data ;) On a more serious note, we once tried all the leading total traffic estimation tools and did some experimenting to see which was the most accurate. Read all about it