Web Traffic Generator
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from $150.00 / 1,000 results
Web Traffic Generator
Web Traffic Generator is an Apify actor that simulates realistic user behavior by visiting multiple URLs and navigating through linked pages to generate authentic web traffic and collect basic data on page visits.
Pricing
from $150.00 / 1,000 results
Rating
2.2
(4)
Developer
Louis Deconinck
Maintained by CommunityActor stats
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Total users
7
Monthly active users
7 days ago
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Web Traffic Generator is an Apify actor that opens your URLs in a headless Chromium browser and navigates through linked pages within the same domain, staying on each page for a configurable time.
Features
- Visit multiple starting URLs
- Navigate through a specified number of pages per domain
- Customizable stay duration on each page
- Real browser (Playwright + Chromium) that loads each page with its scripts
What does Web Traffic Generator do?
Web Traffic Generator enables you to:
- Generate traffic to specified websites
- Simulate user navigation patterns
- Collect basic data about visited pages
The actor can scrape:
- URL of visited pages
- Page titles
- Timestamp of visits
Why use Web Traffic Generator?
Web Traffic Generator is useful for various purposes:
- Smoke-testing that your pages and internal links load in a real browser
- Testing website performance under light load
- Warming up caches/CDNs after a deploy
- Evaluating user flow and navigation patterns
Limitations
- Visits come from a headless browser running in a data center. Analytics tools such as Google Analytics 4 automatically exclude known bot and headless-browser traffic, so these visits usually don't show up in Google Analytics or similar tools, and they don't improve SEO or social media view counts.
- Pages behind a cookie-consent banner won't load analytics scripts until consent is given.
How to use Web Traffic Generator?
It's easy to use Web Traffic Generator. Just follow these steps:
- Click on "Try for free" on the Apify platform.
- Enter one or more URLs you want to generate traffic for in the input.
- Adjust the number of pages per domain and stay duration if needed.
- Click on "Run".
- When Web Traffic Generator has finished, preview or download your data from the "Dataset" tab.
Input Configuration
The actor accepts the following input parameters:
urlsToVisit: An array of URLs to start the traffic generation from.numberOfPages: The maximum number of pages to visit per domain (default: 3).stayDuration: The number of seconds to stay on each page (default: 10).
Example output:
{"url": "https://apify.com","title": "Apify: Full-stack web scraping and data extraction platform","timestamp": "2024-09-29T20:58:06.545443"}