Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Forrester
The 20 closest IT research and advisory alternatives to Forrester, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 13 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Forrester? The closest matches are Morningstar, Semrush and Seeking Alpha. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
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01 · Entity
About Forrester
Forrester forrester.com
Forrester Helps Organizations Thrive Through Volatility
Forrester is a leading global market research company that helps organizations exceed customer demands and excel with technology. Learn how Forrester can help.
Wikidata: company
Summary by Claude
Forrester provides subscription-based research, data and analyst advice on technology, marketing and customer experience, along with consulting services and industry events. It also offers a generative AI tool, including a Slack integration, for querying its research.
- Who it’s for
- Business and technology executives at large enterprises
- Business model
- Research subscriptions, consulting fees, events
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Forrester’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to Forrester
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Forrester, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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American financial services firm
Very close cos 0.903 - 02
Semrush: Your Unfair Advantage for Growing Brand Visibility
Semrush is the leading platform to grow and measure brand visibility across AI search, SEO, PPC, social, and more.
Very close cos 0.895 - 03
Seeking Alpha | Stock Market Analysis & Tools for Investors
Join Seeking Alpha, the largest investing community in the world. Get stock market news and analysis, investing ideas, earnings calls, charts and portfolio analysis tools.
Very close cos 0.896 - 04
IDC | Trusted Tech Intelligence
Navigate the changing tech landscape with IDC’s trusted intelligence and insights from 11 billion data points.
Close cos 0.889 - 05
Forter – Fraud Prevention, Payment Optimization and Agentic Commerce
AI powered fraud, abuse, and payment decisions — so your best customers feel less friction, and you leave no revenue behind.
Close cos 0.885 - 06
company
Close cos 0.884 - 07
US market research company
Close cos 0.885 - 08
Bazaarvoice | The UGC Platform for Authentic Shopper Experiences
The leading UGC platform for authentic ratings, reviews, visual UGC, and review syndication that powers discovery, shopper trust, and higher ecommerce conversion.
Close cos 0.884 - 09
Statista - The Statistics Portal for Market Data, Market Research and Market Studies
Find statistics, consumer survey results and industry studies from over 22,500 sources on over 60,000 topics on the internet's leading statistics database
Close cos 0.883 - 10
Reinvented with Accenture
Accenture embraces the power of change to create 360° value and shared success for our clients, people, shareholders, partners and communities. Learn more.
Close cos 0.880 - 11
Stock Market News & Investing Research | The Motley Fool
The Motley Fool has been providing investing insights and personal finance to millions of people for over 25 years. Learn how we make the world Smarter, Happier & Richer.
Close cos 0.882 - 12
LSEG Data & Analytics | Financial Technology & Data | Data Analytics
LSEG Data & Analytics: Partnering with 40,000+ customers and 400,000+ users worldwide to empower financial insights through data and technology.
Close cos 0.876 - 13
Treasure AI | Agentic Experience Platform (AEP) for Modern Marketers
Treasure AI is the Agentic Experience Platform built to acquire, retain, and grow your most valuable customers, powered by AI, shaped by human creativity, and always-on through continuous, context-driven action. See why Forrester named us a Leader.
Close cos 0.875 - 14 Close cos 0.879
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thestreet.com
US financial news and financial literacy website
Close cos 0.879 - 16
network security corporation
Close cos 0.875 - 17
SurveyMonkey: The World’s Most Popular Survey Platform
Easily create surveys and forms with AI and templates for employee and customer feedback, market research, event registrations and more. Get started free.
Close cos 0.877 - 18
Fortune - Fortune 500 Daily & Breaking Business News
Unrivaled access, premier storytelling, and the best of business since 1930.
Close cos 0.878 - 19
Napster | Visible AI Agents with Voice, Video and Memory
Create, deploy and talk to lifelike AI agents with voice, video presence, memory and real-time utility across apps, websites and workplaces.
Close cos 0.874 - 20
forbes.com
American business magazine
Close cos 0.877
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to forrester.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Forrester uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Forrester is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- CMS
- WordPress meta generator: WordPress 7.1.4
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://go.forrester.com/wp-content/themes/forrester/assets/vendor/jquery.min.js?ver=3.6.1
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Cookie consent
- OneTrust page source: cdn.cookielaw.org
- CDN
- Fastly header x-served-by: cache-chi-kigq8000147-CHI, cache-iad-kcgs7200099-IAD, cache…
- Hosting
- Amazon Web Services cookie AWSALB
- Pantheon header x-pantheon-styx-hostname: styx-us-a-684cbff7d7-lthpl
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (meta generator: WordPress 7.1.4)
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 MX forrester-com.mail.protection.outlook.com
- DNS hosting
- UltraDNS NS pdns99.ultradns.org
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=ygvObghOLO0UdkhvS8BCG6KIIqPAsMg3zrcS3Yk…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=i1LlQVlwRUTBrK1bKh02eEDyCqcTuXDdk3MKc7XfMkU
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Forrester adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Microsoft 365 18/20
- Apple Business · not on forrester.com 15/20
- Atlassian 15/20
- OneTrust 13/20
- OpenAI · not on forrester.com 11/20
- DocuSign · not on forrester.com 11/20
- Adobe · not on forrester.com 10/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on forrester.com 10/20
- Google Workspace · not on forrester.com 9/20
- Stripe · not on forrester.com 8/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on forrester.com 8/20
- Salesforce · not on forrester.com 8/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on forrester.com 6/20
- HubSpot · not on forrester.com 6/20
- Mimecast · not on forrester.com 6/20