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Popular price comparison sites — December 2006

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.


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4 Responses to “Popular price comparison sites — December 2006”


  1. 1 Craig Jan 9th, 2007 at 4:15 pm

    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.

  2. 2 ZZPrices Jan 12th, 2007 at 12:13 pm

    Alexa provides a fairly accurate way to measure websites’ popularity. They’re probably the original in this field.

  3. 3 Yan Feb 5th, 2007 at 9:05 am

    The discussion for this blog post is closed. To leave your comments please go to the latest revision of the list.

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