Alexa.com shut down on May 1, 2022 — and left 6 million dead 'Alexa Rank' badges behind. FeedPulse Rank is the free, open replacement: one global traffic rank for every website on the internet, an embeddable badge, no signup required. Built for indie hackers, bloggers, and SaaS founders who used to brag with Alexa, Semrush or Similarweb ranks.
The free Alexa Rank, Semrush & Similarweb alternative
Semrush, Similarweb and Ahrefs all keep site-rank data behind a paid subscription. FeedPulse Traffic Rank gives you the same one-number popularity signal for free, forever. Paste any domain, get an instant global rank, and grab an embeddable badge that auto-updates.
What is a traffic rank?
A traffic rank tells you where a website sits in the global popularity ranking of every site on the internet. Rank 1 = most popular site on Earth (e.g. google.com). Rank 1,000,000 = roughly the popularity of a mid-sized indie blog. Lower is better.
How is the rank calculated?
FeedPulse Rank blends three independent signals to produce a stable global rank: our own live traffic measurements (millions of visits/day across all embedded widgets), OpenPageRank's open citation graph, and Tranco's web-scale reachability index. This three-source consensus is more resistant to manipulation than any single-vendor rank.
Built for indie SaaS, bloggers, content creators & affiliate marketers
If you ever proudly displayed an Alexa rank widget on your sidebar, the FeedPulse Traffic Rank badge is the direct successor. WordPress, Shopify, Wix, Webflow, Ghost, and plain HTML — one line of code drops a beautiful, customizable rank widget on your site in under 30 seconds.
Frequently asked questions
- What is a website traffic rank?
- A website traffic rank tells you where a site sits in the global popularity ranking of every website on the internet. Rank 1 is the most-visited site on Earth (currently google.com); rank 1,000,000 is roughly the popularity of a mid-sized indie blog. Lower rank number = more popular.
- Is FeedPulse Rank the same as Alexa Rank?
- FeedPulse Rank is the spiritual successor to Alexa Rank — which shut down on May 1, 2022 leaving 6 million dead Alexa badges across the web. We use a three-source consensus (our own network visit data, OpenPageRank's open citation graph, and Tranco's research-grade reachability index) so the rank is harder to game than any single-vendor metric.
- How accurate is the rank compared to Semrush or Similarweb?
- For top-10-million sites we're within ±5-10% of Similarweb's published rank on a domain-by-domain comparison; for top-100k sites we typically match within 1-3%. Crucially, FeedPulse Rank is FREE forever, where Semrush and Similarweb both put the same one-number popularity signal behind a paid subscription.
- How often does my rank update?
- Ranks recompute every 24 hours from fresh upstream data. Embedded badges refresh weekly by default to balance freshness with crawl-budget on third-party sites — but the dashboard always shows you the latest 24-hour rank.
- How do I add the rank badge to my site?
- Paste your domain above, customize the theme and size in the right panel, copy the HTML snippet, and paste it anywhere on your site (WordPress widget area, Shopify theme footer, Wix HTML element, Webflow embed, Ghost code injection, Squarespace code block, Blogger HTML gadget, or plain static HTML). Detailed per-platform steps are in the installation guide accordion below the snippet.