freek.dev
DR 63by AhrefsMedium Opportunity · 55/100

About

Freek Van der Herten writes about Laravel, PHP and AI. Co-owner of Spatie, maintainer of 300+ open source packages with over 2 billion downloads.

Categorycomputers_electronics_and_technology/programming_and_developer_software
Top 470,718
Global Rank
United States 11%
Top Market
-20%
Monthly Trend
42% Bounce
Engagement Signal

Monthly Visits

92,542

19.8% vs last month

Bounce Rate

42.0%

Pages / Visit

1.5

Avg. Session

12s

Domain Age

7.3 years

Traffic

#470,718Global Rank
#895,300Country Rank (840)
#12,923Category Rank · Programming_and_Developer_Software
Traffic Trend
19.8%
Traffic Sources
Organic Search
49.2%
Direct
26.0%
Social
5.9%
Referral
15.3%
Paid
0.0%
Email
3.6%
Geographic Distribution
DomainShareBar
🇺🇸United StatesUS
10.7%
🇻🇳VietnamVN
9.8%
🇬🇧United KingdomGB
3.9%
🇳🇬NigeriaNG
3.8%
🇮🇳IndiaIN
3.1%
Top 3 countries account for 24.4% of traffic

SEO & Keywords

Top Keywords
Keyword
claude code setup12.0K$4.58$400
claude-code-setup8.0K$0.00$120
freek van der herten160$0.00$140
how to make claude now showing himself in commits150$0.00$150
use mac minis for github actions140$0.00$130

Business & Domain

Domain Information
RegistrarHosting Concepts B.V. d/b/a Registrar.eu
Registered2019-03-01
Expires2027-03-01
Name Serversbecky.ns.cloudflare.com, woz.ns.cloudflare.com

Growth Readout

5 tracked competitors in this category — competitive landscape is well-defined

How does freek.dev actually grow?

This page shows the surface. A Growth Teardown reverse-engineers the full playbook — which keywords drive signups, where backlinks come from, which channels convert, and what you can replicate in your own product.

Competitive Landscape

claude.com

claude.com

🔗 2 keyword overlap

Customize Anthropic's pre-built plugins with your team's tools, processes, and expertise so every skill runs from your context.

119.5M/mo-10%May 1995

Shares 2 keywords including "claude"

replit.com

replit.com

🔗 2 keyword overlap

Replit is an AI-driven software creation platform where everyone can build, share, and ship apps and websites, fast.

13.6M/mo+12%Sep 2011

Shares 2 keywords including "claude"

skilljar.com

skilljar.com

🔗 2 keyword overlap

Customer Training and Enablement teams at hundreds of innovative companies use Skilljar to onboard and retain customers. Read our customer success stories here!

11.2M/mo-4%Dec 2011

Shares 2 keywords including "claude"

kiro.dev

kiro.dev

🔗 2 keyword overlap

Kiro is an agentic IDE that helps you go from prototype to production with spec-driven development.

3.8M/mo+43%Mar 2019

Shares 2 keywords including "claude"

towardsdatascience.com

towardsdatascience.com

🔗 2 keyword overlap

A friendly guide to Expected Improvement for Global Optimization, in Python

1.3M/mo+7%Oct 2016

Shares 2 keywords including "claude"

Report based on data from May 2026

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