Update: for the latest revision of this list go to Popular price comparison sites - March 2011.
This is January 2007 revision of the Popular Price Comparison web sites list. You can find the last month revision of the list here.
The change in rating shows the difference compared to December results. I reworked the script calculating Page Rank to use multiple data centers. As the result some of the improvements in Page Rank account for this change.
The biggest gainer is Smarter with Alexa rank gain of 14.12%. The website has been a consistent performer over the last 6 months.
By the way, did you know Smarter has mobile price alerts? You can check price of an item online while in store using SMS on your cell phone.
The worst performer this month second time in a row is Sortprice with a huge rank drop of -49.38%. Enjoy the rest of the stats below!
| # | Web Site | Alexa Rank | Page Rank | Online Since | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shopping.yahoo.com | 1(*) | 8 | (-1) | 18-Jan-1995 | |
| 2 | shopping.msn.com | 2(*) | 8 | (-1) | 10-Nov-1994 | |
| 3 | froogle.google.com | 3(*) | 8 | (-1) | 11-Sep-2001 | |
| 4 | shopping.aol.com | 49(*) | (-11.36%) | 8 | (8) | 22-Jun-1995 |
| 5 | shopper.cnet.com | 107(*) | (0.93%) | 8 | 05-Jul-1996 | |
| 6 | nextag.com | 412 | (-0.98%) | 7 | 15-Oct-1998 | |
| 7 | shopping.com | 429 | (-1.66%) | 8 | 03-Jul-1997 | |
| 8 | pricegrabber.com | 510 | (-6.92%) | 8 | 10-Mar-1999 | |
| 9 | bizrate.com | 519 | (-5.27%) | 8 | 24-Apr-1996 | |
| 10 | shoplocal.com | 738 | (-5.13%) | 8 | (1) | 24-Sep-1998 |
| 11 | dealtime.com | 790 | (7.6%) | 8 | 07-Oct-1998 | |
| 12 | epinions.com | 1070 | (-7.11%) | 8 | 12-Feb-1999 | |
| 13 | shopzilla.com | 1130 | (-12.55%) | 7 | (-1) | 04-Jul-2002 |
| 14 | smarter.com | 3132 | (14.12%) | 6 | 28-Apr-1998 | |
| 15 | pricerunner.com | 3552 | (-2.9%) | 7 | (4) | 19-May-1999 |
| 16 | mysimon.com | 4644 | (0.21%) | 9 | (1) | 15-Apr-1998 |
| 17 | like.com | 5157 | (13.7%) | 4 | 22-Feb-1995 | |
| 18 | pricewatch.com | 5294 | (-12.71%) | 7 | 26-Sep-1995 | |
| 19 | ebates.com | 6069 | (-11.77%) | 6 | 29-Dec-1998 | |
| 20 | become.com | 6589 | (-8.03%) | 6 | 20-Jan-2004 | |
| 21 | jellyfish.com | 11056 | (2.73%) | 5 | (4) | 26-Jun-2006 |
| 22 | mpire.com | 13703 | (-6.27%) | 6 | (1) | 01-Jun-2006 |
| 23 | thefind.com | 15394 | (9.12%) | 5 | (5) | 19-Oct-2006 |
| 24 | pricescan.com | 18124 | (-9.1%) | 6 | 03-Sep-1997 | |
| 25 | pronto.com | 25254 | (3.48%) | 8 | (5) | 01-Jan-2006 |
| 26 | shopwiki.com | 25385 | (-6.23%) | 5 | (3) | 15-Dec-2004 |
| 27 | activeshopper.com | 28669 | (2.82%) | 5 | (1) | 12-Jan-1999 |
| 28 | sortprice.com | 29763 | (-49.38%) | 6 | (1) | 15-Jan-2004 |
| 29 | streetprices.com | 42749 | (-25.3%) | 5 | (-1) | 16-Oct-1997 |
| 30 | hawkee.com | 43222(**) | (8.08%) | 6 | (4) | 02-Jan-1997 |
| 31 | mytriggers.com | 47258 | (-0.69%) | 4 | (3) | 09-May-2005 |
| 32 | retrevo.com | 49540 | (-5.95%) | 5 | (5) | 10-May-2006 |
| 33 | ugenie.com | 62054 | (-9.84%) | 3 | (1) | 02-Nov-2006 |
| 34 | pricefight.com | 68176 | (7.83%) | 5 | (5) | 17-Nov-2006 |
| 35 | bottomdollar.com | 68860 | (-2.34%) | 8 | (8) | 04-Jul-1997 |
| 36 | salescircular.com | 77002 | (-15.75%) | 6 | 09-Jun-1998 | |
(*) 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.
Is there a ranking by results? Particluarly for smaller web retailers? Listings for small retailers are often lost on these sites and big web retailers often bid the market up so high, that smaller companies can’t avail themselves of the power of these comparison shopping sites. I sell organic tea and handmade Asian teapots and my listing are often pretty far down the ranks.
Great list and it’s interesting to see how much average dip is for most of them, and then a few of them really bucking the trend with some positive January Growth.
Rick T – your problem is what drove us to create http://wwww.myTriggers.com. It’s based on a CPA model, rather than CPC, so results that are returned are completely organic. No company is allowed to bid for a higher position, so you get to see more of the smaller companies in the results.
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