Update: for the latest revision of this list go to Popular price comparison sites – March 2011.
This is October 2006 revision of the Popular Price Comparison web sites list. You can find the last month revision of the list here.
Thanks to your feedback I have added quite a few web sites. The rank change for them is marked as (n/a) while the rest of the sites have the actual rank change since September.
I have noticed an interesting thing. Since lower Alexa rank means higher popularity the negative change is actually good and should be marked green. I have done the green part right but I didn’t keep the “negative” sign. Likewise the positive change is correctly marked red but I added the “negative” sign to it — it just looks more natural this way.
The biggest gainer is become.com with the rank increase of 18.1%. This is not surprising at all. The team is busy adding some very cool features which obviously gets noticed.
The biggest looser unexpectedly (at least for me) is shopwiki.com with a decrease in Alexa rank of 27.0%. Could it be a sign that between the quantity of the search results and their quality consumers really choose the latter?
| # | Web Site | Alexa Rank | Page Rank | Online Since | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shopping.yahoo.com | 1(*) | 9 | 18-Jan-1995 | ||
| 2 | froogle.google.com | 3(*) | 9 | 11-Sep-2001 | ||
| 3 | shopper.cnet.com | 100(*) | (-4.2%) | 8 | 05-Jul-1996 | |
| 4 | nextag.com | 459 | (+9.5%) | 7 | 15-Oct-1998 | |
| 5 | pricegrabber.com | 469 | (-4.7%) | 8 | 10-Mar-1999 | |
| 6 | shopping.com | 470 | (2.1%) | 8 | 03-Jul-1997 | |
| 7 | bizrate.com | 512 | (1.2%) | 8 | 24-Apr-1996 | |
| 8 | epinions.com | 1036 | (0.1%) | 8 | 12-Feb-1999 | |
| 9 | shopzilla.com | 1073 | (3.9%) | 8 | 04-Jul-2002 | |
| 10 | dealtime.com | 1166 | (-0.1%) | 8 | 07-Oct-1998 | |
| 11 | pricerunner.com | 3724 | (n/a) | 3 | (n/a) | 19-May-1999 |
| 12 | pricewatch.com | 4205 | (-1.3%) | 7 | 26-Sep-1995 | |
| 13 | mysimon.com | 4325 | (-7.8%) | 8 | 15-Apr-1998 | |
| 14 | ebates.com | 5046 | (n/a) | 6 | (n/a) | 29-Dec-1998 |
| 15 | become.com | 7605 | (18.1%) | 6 | 20-Jan-2004 | |
| 16 | pricescan.com | 16094 | (-2.2%) | 6 | 03-Sep-1997 | |
| 17 | sortprice.com | 16150 | (n/a) | 5 | (n/a) | 15-Jan-2004 |
| 18 | mpire.com | 16307 | (n/a) | 5 | (n/a) | 03-Aug-2000 |
| 19 | streetprices.com | 27366 | (-0.2%) | 6 | 16-Oct-1997 | |
| 20 | activeshopper.com | 31765 | (-4.9%) | 4 | 12-Jan-1999 | |
| 21 | shopwiki.com | 33660 | (-27.0%) | 5 | 15-Dec-2004 | |
| 22 | jellyfish.com | 41899 | (n/a) | 4 | (n/a) | 26-Jun-2006 |
| 23 | pointshop.com | 49015 | (-9.3%) | 7 | 17-Apr-1998 | |
| 24 | bottomdollar.com | 54223 | (-14.0%) | 0 | 04-Jul-1997 | |
| 25 | salescircular.com | 58278 | (n/a) | 6 | (n/a) | 09-Jun-1998 |
| 26 | thefind.com | 71882 | (n/a) | 2 | (n/a) | 19-Oct-2006 |
| 27 | hawkee.com | 79931(**) | (n/a) | 6 | (n/a) | 02-Jan-1997 |
| 28 | retrevo.com | 85274 | (n/a) | 4 | (n/a) | 10-Apr-2006 |
| 29 | compare123.com | 161292 | (-0.4%) | 5 | 11-Apr-2002 | |
| 30 | sprenzy.com | 230684 | (n/a) | 4 | (n/a) | 02-Mar-2006 |
| 31 | aimlower.com | 591374 | (-7.4%) | 5 | 02-Oct-2000 | |
| 32 | roboshopper.com | 736592 | (-6.9%) | 6 | 02-Aug-1997 | |
(*) Note: traffic stats for these sites is the aggregate of all traffic to the top domain (e.g. Yahoo.com or Google.com) and thus cannot be used to judge how popular this particular price comparison service is.
(**) Note: the web site is a portal with price comparison engine being one of the offered web services. Alexa rank cannot be used to judge how popular this price comparison engine is.