Update: for the latest revision of this list go to Popular price comparison sites - March 2011.
This is December 2006 revision of the Popular Price Comparison web sites list. You can find the last month revision of the list here.
Hawkee enjoyed a nice ride this month (up 34.16%) after it was featured at TechCrunch. It is amazing what difference a single post on a popular blog can make.
The next best performer is TheFind with 29.68% increase. I will attribute this rise to their active advertisement campaign (including that on TechCrunch as well).
Sortprice is the worst performer. The change is not that significant though, only 9.76% down. On average price comparison sites seem to be doing much better than the bargain hunting sites that I reviewed recently.
| # | Web Site | Alexa Rank | Page Rank | Online Since | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shopping.yahoo.com | 1(*) | 9 | 18-Jan-1995 | ||
| 2 | shopping.msn.com | 2(*) | (n/a) | 9 | (n/a) | 10-Nov-1994 |
| 3 | froogle.google.com | 3(*) | 9 | 11-Sep-2001 | ||
| 4 | shopping.aol.com | 44(*) | (n/a) | 0 | (n/a) | 22-Jun-1995 |
| 5 | shopper.cnet.com | 108(*) | (0.92%) | 8 | 05-Jul-1996 | |
| 6 | nextag.com | 408 | (6.42%) | 7 | 15-Oct-1998 | |
| 7 | shopping.com | 422 | (2.99%) | 8 | 03-Jul-1997 | |
| 8 | pricegrabber.com | 477 | (1.65%) | 8 | 10-Mar-1999 | |
| 9 | bizrate.com | 493 | (5.92%) | 8 | 24-Apr-1996 | |
| 10 | shoplocal.com | 702 | (n/a) | 7 | (n/a) | 24-Sep-1998 |
| 11 | dealtime.com | 855 | (18.34%) | 8 | 07-Oct-1998 | |
| 12 | epinions.com | 999 | (1.48%) | 8 | 12-Feb-1999 | |
| 13 | shopzilla.com | 1004 | (2.43%) | 8 | 04-Jul-2002 | |
| 14 | pricerunner.com | 3452 | (5.55%) | 3 | 19-May-1999 | |
| 15 | smarter.com | 3647 | (13.08%) | 6 | 28-Apr-1998 | |
| 16 | mysimon.com | 4654 | (1.08%) | 8 | 15-Apr-1998 | |
| 17 | pricewatch.com | 4697 | (-6.41%) | 7 | 26-Sep-1995 | |
| 18 | ebates.com | 5430 | (-3.39%) | 6 | 29-Dec-1998 | |
| 19 | like.com | 5976 | (20.05%) | 3 | 22-Feb-1995 | |
| 20 | become.com | 6099 | (8.08%) | 6 | 20-Jan-2004 | |
| 21 | jellyfish.com | 11366 | (23.9%) | 4 | 26-Jun-2006 | |
| 22 | mpire.com | 12894 | (8.37%) | 5 | 03-Aug-2000 | |
| 23 | pricescan.com | 16612 | (-1.8%) | 6 | 03-Sep-1997 | |
| 24 | thefind.com | 16938 | (29.68%) | 0 | 19-Oct-2006 | |
| 25 | sortprice.com | 19925 | (-9.76%) | 5 | 15-Jan-2004 | |
| 26 | shopwiki.com | 23897 | (4.48%) | 5 | 15-Dec-2004 | |
| 27 | pronto.com | 26164 | (17.21%) | 3 | 01-Jan-2006 | |
| 28 | activeshopper.com | 29501 | (6.28%) | 4 | 12-Jan-1999 | |
| 29 | streetprices.com | 34116 | (-9.05%) | 6 | 16-Oct-1997 | |
| 30 | retrevo.com | 46760 | (18.4%) | 4 | 10-May-2006 | |
| 31 | mytriggers.com | 46933 | (n/a) | 1 | (n/a) | 09-May-2005 |
| 32 | hawkee.com | 47019(**) | (34.16%) | 2 | 02-Jan-1997 | |
| 33 | ugenie.com | 56496 | (11.46%) | 2 | 02-Nov-2006 | |
| 34 | salescircular.com | 66524 | (-5.36%) | 6 | 09-Jun-1998 | |
| 35 | bottomdollar.com | 67287 | (-0.7%) | 0 | 04-Jul-1997 | |
| 36 | pricefight.com | 73966 | (n/a) | 0 | (n/a) | 17-Nov-2006 |
| 37 | pepperjam.com | 90760 | (6.64%) | 2 | 21-Feb-2000 | |
(*) 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.
Alexa ranking are really, really suspect here. I have found that Compete.com is much more accruate than Alexa. It would be better yet to use Hitwise or some other data source. You just can’t believe anything that comes out of Alexa for ranking purposes.
Alexa provides a fairly accurate way to measure websites’ popularity. They’re probably the original in this field.
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