Markets › apartment search websites 42 brands› rent.com
How often is it named?
24/36
6 of 42 brands, across 6 questions about apartment search websites.
How is it described?
Recommended
1 of the 2 answers that named Rent.com directly recommended it.
2 of 6 direct answers were read closely; the rest were matched by name only, which catches a mention but not a judgement.
12 brands in this market were named in none of the 36 answers: Apartment Guide, AvantStay, Blueground, Buildium, CorporateHousing.com, ForRent.com, HotRental, HouseStay and 4 more.
Being a big website barely predicts being named here. The assistants are drawing on something other than raw web prominence.
↑how often assistants name it →how much traffic its website gets
Across is web prominence — the brand's domain in the Tranco ranking of the world's most-visited sites, on a logarithmic scale, so each step is roughly ten times more prominent. Up is how many of the 36 answers named it.
Every brand with a ranked domain is plotted, including the 3 whose domain is an imperfect stand-in — shared with sibling products, a subdomain, or registered abroad, drawn hollow — because a domain carrying a whole company still plausibly helps that company's products get named. Not plotted, having no ranked domain: Google Maps.
Rank correlation +0.30 across 15 brands — a description of this picture, not a claim about the market as a whole.
By question
| Question | Answers | Named it |
|---|---|---|
| What are the best websites for finding an apartment to rent? | 6/6 | |
| What are good apps for finding a house rental? | 5/6 | |
| Which apartment search sites have the most accurate listings? | 4/6 | |
| Which rental websites update listings the fastest? | 3/6 | |
| Which sites are best for finding no fee rentals? | 3/6 | |
| Which apartment search sites have the best mobile apps? | 3/6 |
Where it lands when answers rank brands
median position 3 of about 7
in the top three 61% of ranked answers
from 23 ranked answers
95% interval 50–80%
on its own count
The two assistants
| Assistant | Named it |
|---|---|
| anthropic | 15/18 (83%) |
| openai | 9/18 (50%) |
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Method
market apartment search websites
brands compared 42
answers 36
web prominence Tranco #12,154
owned by Rent Group
Rent.com is counted by the same matcher as every other brand here, against the same list of names, from the same answers. It gets no extra aliases and no special handling.
Web search was off, so this measures what the models already know rather than what they would retrieve today. A difference smaller than about 12 points is not meaningful.
How the table is ordered. By how many of the 36 answers named each brand. Brands on the same count share a rank and are shown in the order the assistants tended to list them. A brand counts once per answer, however many times it is named in it.
How close is close. Two brands share a rank only when their counts are identical. Beyond that, a gap smaller than about four answers is inside what this measurement moves between runs — so read near-neighbours as close rather than settled, which is why every row keeps its interval.