movielens.org
DR 59by AhrefsMedium Opportunity · 43/100
Categoryarts_and_entertainment/arts_and_entertainment
Top 196,092
Global Rank
United States 68%
Top Market
+22%
Monthly Trend
34% Bounce
Engagement Signal

Monthly Visits

151,648

22.4% vs last month

Bounce Rate

34.3%

Pages / Visit

6.8

Avg. Session

7m 15s

Domain Age

26.7 years

Traffic

#196,092Global Rank
#72,832Country Rank (840)
#519Category Rank · Arts_and_Entertainment
Traffic Trend
22.4%
Traffic Sources
Organic Search
17.2%
Direct
76.8%
Social
3.9%
Referral
1.3%
Paid
0.4%
Email
0.3%

Strong brand recognition: 76.8% from direct traffic

Geographic Distribution
DomainShareBar
🇺🇸United StatesUS
68.2%
🇻🇳VietnamVN
4.2%
🇬🇧United KingdomGB
3.2%
🇩🇪GermanyDE
2.5%
🇮🇳IndiaIN
2.3%
Top 3 countries account for 75.7% of traffic — high geographic concentration

SEO & Keywords

Top Keywords
Keyword
movielens3.3K$0.00$4.6K
movie recommender1.7K$0.35$120
personalized movie recommendations.930$0.00$590
movie lens510$0.00$570
movie recommendation software170$0.00$160
SERP Rankings
KeywordRanking URL
movie recommender#5🏠movielens.org/1,250$0.46
movie recommendation engine#3🏠movielens.org/1,080$2.46

Growth Readout

Direct traffic at 77% — strong brand recognition

Bounce rate only 34%, avg session 435s — exceptionally high engagement

Traffic concentrated in United States (68%) — high geographic dependency

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

How does movielens.org actually grow?

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Competitive Landscape

criticker.com

criticker.com

🔗 3 keyword overlap

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165.2K/mo+16%Oct 2005

Shares 3 keywords including "movie recommendation engine"

bestsimilar.com

bestsimilar.com

🔗 2 keyword overlap

Murder movies: I Saw the Devil (2010), Untraceable (2008), True Detective (2014), The Body (2012), Knives Out (2019), Zodiac (2007), The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989), Summer of 84 (2018), The Last House on the Left (2009)

3.4M/mo+21%Sep 2017

Shares 2 keywords including "similar movies"

tastedive.com

tastedive.com

🔗 2 keyword overlap

Tadeusz Jurek is on TasteDive and likes Ariana Grande, Hans Zimmer, l.u.c...

537.2K/mo+3%Feb 2017

Shares 2 keywords including "similar movies"

word.studio

word.studio

🔗 2 keyword overlap

Word.Studio writes, analyzes, and performs research using the most advanced large language models (LLMs) available, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT 4o and

123.2K/mo-17%Mar 2023

Shares 2 keywords including "movie recommender"

Report based on data from May 2026

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