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category benchmark

Where do you stand in the whole category?

Most tools grade a single domain. Category Benchmark grades the entire field at once — every serious player scored on the same axes, ranked into one number so you can see your real position at a glance.

Find out where you stand →
category_benchmark · sector: professional services
CompanyAvg PosKeywordsTrafficDRScore
Northpoint Advisory121,842182k718
Meridian Partners281,19096k5831
Your client4176044k4447
Castle & Crowe5551021k3758
Beacon Group673009k2969
Lower score = stronger positionCSVPDF report
what it is

A league table for your market.

Define a category and Intrinsic pulls the players competing for it, then scores each one on the signals that actually move share of search.

Every company is measured on average position, ranking keywords, estimated traffic, domain rank, referring domains, backlinks and page speed, then folded into a single composite. We invert it deliberately: a lower score means a stronger position, so the leader sits at the top with the smallest number and the gap to them is something you can read instantly.

You can frame the category four ways — a broad sector, a tighter vertical, an exact keyphrase, or a competitor URL that finds direct rivals. Sector and vertical benchmark a basket of keywords; keyphrase is exact; competitor URL reverse-engineers who you really compete with.

how it works

From a category to a league table.

STEP 01

Define the space

Enter a sector, vertical, keyphrase or a competitor URL to set what “category” means.

STEP 02

Assemble the field

Intrinsic identifies the brands genuinely ranking in that space — not a list you have to maintain.

STEP 03

Score every player

Each is graded across seven signals and reduced to one composite, lower being stronger.

STEP 04

Read & export

Sort, see where you sit, then export CSV or a client-ready PDF.

what you get

Outputs you can act on.

league table

The ranked field

Every player with avg position, keywords, traffic, DR, referring domains, backlinks and speed.

composite score

One number

A single position score per company so progress is measurable over time.

auto-insight

What the data says

A plain-English read of where you sit relative to the others shown.

export

CSV & PDF

Raw data for analysis, or a polished PDF report to drop in front of a client.

4 framings

Sector / vertical / keyphrase / competitor

Benchmark broadly or pin it to an exact term or a named rival.

cached

Fast re-runs

Results cache so re-checking a category is instant; refresh on demand.

Powered by DataForSEO. DR = domain rank (0–1000). Speed = Lighthouse (0–100). Sector & vertical benchmark a keyword basket; keyphrase is exact; competitor URL finds direct rivals.
who it's for

When you'd reach for it.

brand & in-house

Quarterly positioning

Track your category rank over time and prove movement to the board.

agencies

The pitch opener

Show a prospect exactly where they sit against rivals in the first meeting.

strategy

Market entry

Size up a new category before committing budget to it.

explore the engine

The other instruments

get in touch

See your category, ranked.

Tell us your sector and we'll run the benchmark live and walk you through where you sit.

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