Independent product intelligence · Worldwide · 2026-05-01 → 2026-07-31

Profoundtryprofound.com

No product description has been published for this domain yet. Everything below is measured directly.

Marketing & Salestryprofound.comTracked since 2026-08-192 discovery sources
59.8KAI traffic
20.6KBacklinks

Traffic & engagement

Where Profound ranks

Traffic and engagement were not measured for this domain. The ranking positions below were.

#103,104Global rank
#41,367Country rank
#151Category rank

AI referral visibility

Which AI assistants are already sending Profound traffic?

AI referrals are still a minority channel, but they show which assistants and pages are becoming discovery surfaces.

59.8KTotal AI traffic
1.8%Share of all traffic
34.8KChatGPT traffic
58.2%ChatGPT share

AI platform mix · 2026-02-01 → 2026-07-31

ChatGPT58.2%
Others33.7%
Gemini3.2%
Claude3.2%
Perplexity1.6%
Manus0.1%

AI discovery readout

The identifiable AI mix includes ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, Manus, while the source groups 33.7% into “Others”.

ChatGPT alone supplies 58.2% of measured AI referrals, ahead of Gemini at 3.2%. Most of it lands on tryprofound.com.

AI referral landing pages · all 24 stored rows

#Page / folderTrafficShare
1tryprofound.com20.4K34.13%
2other20.2K33.70%
3tryprofound.com/blog/how-to-design-prompts-for-ai-visibility-tracking1.6K2.65%
4tryprofound.com/blog/chatgpt-citation-sources1.3K2.11%
5tryprofound.com/resources/articles/answer-engine-optimization-aeo-guide-for-marketers-20251.2K1.93%
6platform.tryprofound.com/agency958.71.60%
7tryprofound.com/aeo-report8701.45%
8tryprofound.com/blog/ai-platform-citation-patterns742.91.24%
9tryprofound.com/blog657.21.10%
10tryprofound.com/blog/josh-blyskal-tech-seo-connect-deck-2025632.91.06%
11tryprofound.com/customers/ramp-case-study632.91.06%
12tryprofound.com/resources/articles/generative-engine-optimization-geo-guide-2025612.61.02%
13tryprofound.com/pricing574.30.96%
14tryprofound.com/blog/how-query-language-reshapes-ai-citations5380.90%
15tryprofound.com/blog/how-to-track-your-visibility-in-ai-search530.10.89%
16docs.tryprofound.com/agent-analytics/extensions/adobe-analytics529.10.88%
17tryprofound.com/careers/0cdce451-6430-429f-8745-7450a045fab5529.10.88%
18tryprofound.com/features/agent-analytics529.10.88%
19tryprofound.com/features/answer-engine-insights529.10.88%
20tryprofound.com/features/answer-engine-insights/citations529.10.88%
21tryprofound.com/features/shopping529.10.88%
22tryprofound.com/blog/profound-raises-96m-series-c497.30.83%
23tryprofound.com/solutions/pr-teams491.70.82%
24tryprofound.com/careers/52e2ff7b-1cff-42ba-9604-448eeb58d3d4479.40.80%

Authority & distribution

How strong is Profound’s web footprint?

Backlinks measure accumulated distribution; referring domains show how broadly that authority is spread. Both are observable on the open web, so both are published for every product here.

Backlinks

20.6KCurrent snapshot

Referring domains

3.9KCurrent snapshot

Authority

38Domain authority · category median 22

90-day move

+41.7%Referring domains, last 90 days
At 38, Profound sits above the 22 median for its category.

Backlinks · 370 daily observations

Vertical axis starts at 1.6K, not zero.

Referring domains · 370 daily observations

Vertical axis starts at 509, not zero.

Product profile

What Profound is selling.

Traffic makes more sense when you can connect it to the actual product promise.

“Profound”

No usable description reached this profile from any discovery source, so none is shown. The measured signals below are unaffected.

Marketing & SalesSeen 2026-08-19 → 2026-08-21Coverage tier C

What we have measured

4 of 8 signal groups are available for this product: identity, authority and backlinks, AI referrals, search demand.

Not measured for this domain: traffic and engagement, audience demographics, country distribution, acquisition mix. Those sections are left out of the page rather than filled with estimates.

Canonical website: https://www.tryprofound.com/?ref=futuretools.io

Observed across 2 discovery sources.

Research questions

What the evidence answers about Profound.

Every answer is tied to a source we collected, and the questions with no evidence behind them are left unanswered rather than guessed.

What does Profound do and what problem does it solve?

Profound is a marketing platform that helps brands optimize their visibility in AI-generated answers and search results. It solves the problem of brands being overlooked in the growing 'zero-click' world where over 100 million people search with AI daily.

What features and tools does the Profound platform include?

Profound offers a suite of features including Prompt Volumes to see what millions of people ask AI, Answer Engine Insights to see how AI represents a brand, autonomous marketing Agents, Agent Analytics to track site interpretation by AI platforms, and an Aim feature for identifying high-impact work.

Which AI platforms and assistants does Profound integrate with or monitor?

Profound monitors and is designed to optimize visibility across major AI platforms including Perplexity, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Microsoft Copilot, DeepSeek, and Google AI Overviews.

How much search traffic does the Profound website receive?

The Profound website received a total of 163,761.252 search traffic visits in July 2026. The measured search traffic grew from 141,154.1 visits in May 2026 to 173,460.097 visits in June 2026 before this figure.

Which AI assistants send the most traffic to Profound?

ChatGPT is the largest source of AI referral traffic, sending 34,842 visits from February to July 2026, which accounts for 58.2% of its total AI traffic. Gemini and Claude follow with 1,914 and 1,888 visits respectively.

What are the top keywords driving traffic to Profound?

The top keyword driving traffic is 'searchable' with 6,240 clicks. Other top keywords include 'peec ai' (4,320 clicks), 'ubersuggest' (4,310 clicks), and 'airops' (3,730 clicks). This data was measured from May to July 2026.

What is the link authority and backlink profile of Profound?

As of August 25, 2026, Profound has a domain authority of 38, with 3,930 referring domains and 20,575 total backlinks. The number of referring domains has grown consistently over the preceding 12-day period.

How does Profound compare to the median product in its category?

Profound has a domain authority of 38, which is above the category median of 22 for Marketing & Sales products. Its measured AI traffic share of 1.79% is also notable, with over 59,847 AI traffic visits recorded.

Who is Profound for and in what situations is it used?

Profound is for marketing teams, specifically AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) teams, content teams, and PR & brand teams. It is used to monitor, analyze, build, and measure a brand's presence across various AI search engines and answer engines.

Behind the lock

Unlock full Profound intelligence.

  • Backlink trajectoryThe figures above are the latest observation. The daily curve behind them holds 370.
  • AI referral detailHow much traffic assistants send, which 6 of them do it, and the 24 pages they land on.
  • Search structure and ranking depthOrganic against paid, brand against non-brand, and how many keywords rank in the top three against the long tail — which is what decides whether the demand is portable or tied to the name.
  • The rest of the marketPage through every leaderboard 100 rows at a time, put any five products side by side, and query the whole dataset over API / MCP.

Worldwide estimates · Data period 2026-05-01 → 2026-07-31 · AI referral period 2026-02-01 → 2026-07-31. Figures are measured estimates intended for market research. Signals we have not measured for this domain are omitted, never estimated; a measured zero is still reported as zero. How this was measured