Market intelligence / Code Quality / Gauge Data updated Oct 30, 2026
G Gauge Traffic, SEO & Growth Analysis Traffic declining · 2 months running Code Quality Domain age 27 years 1 month About Gauge is an open source test automation framework that takes the pain out of writing and maintaining regression or acceptance test suites.
Signals & evidence 1 Report Gauge visits fell 10% in Sep, mostly lost from Direct Gauge made 1 site change in the same window Timing overlaps; this does not show cause
New linking sites +139 Sep 8 New backlinks discovered for Gauge Evidence → Reconstruct every step Gauge took → Monthly visits 5.1K ↓ 10.3% · −588 MoM
Market rank #39 / 56 0.1% of market traffic
Domain Rating 58 Flat vs last month
AI referrals 0 None detected yet Gauge Traffic Trend & Channel Attribution How the growth happened
Monthly visit estimates · 2026-05 — 2026-09 · DR 58, flat
Latest monthly visits 5.1K
Sep 2026 Monthly trend · Arrow keys to explore
0 5K 10K 15K 20K May Jun Jul Aug Sep 5.1K↓10% Sep 2026
Monthly visits5.1K
vs. previous month −588 · −10%
Backlinks +139 sites in the same windowAug 19 – Sep 8 · Evidence → Gauge site changes and traffic signals in this period Timing overlaps; this does not show cause
New linking sites +139 Sep 8 New backlinks discovered for Gauge Evidence →
Where the new visits came from Monthly visits split by channel share: Gauge lost 588 visits from Aug to Sep, with direct contributing 38%.
Visit change by channel Channel Last 3 months Change bar Aug → SepChange Share of change Current share Direct−221 38% 39.8% ↑0.2pp Organic search−178 30% 32.7% ↑0.3pp Referrals−64 11% 9.9% ↓0.1pp 5 other channels−98 17% 13.8% ↓0.3pp
Gauge SEO Keywords, Sitemap Pages & AI Referrals What you can borrow
Gauge’s acquisition moves across pages, search terms and AI referrals, each with its data source.
Search · source keywords — Non-brand terms bring 8.6% of search trafficKeyword Traffic CPC Rank gauge Brand 170 $0.92 1 gauge download Brand 150 — 2 thoughtworks "gauge extension for visual studio code" Brand 140 — 3 getgauge "gauge for vscode" Brand 70 — 4 testing language server protocol Non-brand 50 — 5
Borrow: Search traffic is mostly branded, riding existing awareness; the non-brand needs it does not cover are open to you.
Content & page updates · via Sitemap — No bulk page changes latelyWe diff its public Sitemap daily. Bulk launches or removals will appear here and alert watchers.
AI referrals · ChatGPT, Copilot… — AI referrals are early — not a growth source yet0 visits from AI assistants (previous month 0), 0% of all traffic.
Borrow: No need to follow yet; watch whether it scales next month.
Gauge Promotion History, Backlinks & Launch Timeline Full growth history
What did Gauge do at each step?
Unlock Gauge’s launch posts, community threads and new backlinks, plus a launch checklist you can copy.
Promotion timeline with original sources Traffic before and after each channel Exportable launch action list Aug 19 – Sep 8 Backlinks
New backlinks discovered for Gauge
Observed event Jun 2026 Traffic data
Monthly visits 17.5K → 7.7K
Observed event Where it launched and who talked about it
Product Hunt Reddit X Directories Visible after unlocking Where the new backlinks came from
Referring domains First seen Visible after unlocking A launch sequence you can copy
Visible after unlocking Gauge Competitors & Alternatives Traffic Benchmark Same-market benchmark
Sep 2026 · Code Quality
Sep 2026
Est. monthly visits 796.4K
MoM -15.6% Sep 2026
Est. monthly visits 168.9K
MoM -24.8% G Gauge Sep 2026 Current
Est. monthly visits 5.1K
MoM -10.3% Sep 2026
Est. monthly visits 1.4K
MoM — Know the next time Gauge ships pages in bulk
We diff its Sitemap, backlinks and traffic daily and alert you only on real changes.
Method: visits and channel shares are third-party monthly estimates; channel change = monthly visits × channel share, month over month; site actions and traffic are shown by timing only, not as cause and effect.