Update: for the latest revision of this list go to Popular price comparison sites - March 2011.
This is February 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 January results. The list has a total of 34 web sites. There are 10 more in my database that didn’t meet the Alexa Rank < 100,000 requirement.
Sites that dropped out of the list this month are ugenie.com and pricefight.com
The biggest rating drop this month comes from like.com (-185.86%). This is expected since the site was just launched a few months ago. Alexa rank is a 3 month average and as the initial spike comes out of the 3 months window, the rank sharply decreases. Here is how the trend looks over the past 6 months.
The top gainer is again smarter.com (13.44%). I have found this repost of Nielsen/Netratings January report which says that smarter.com is in the top 25 internet companies by the number of sponsored link impressions. To be exact they had 266.0 millions impressions, 27% up compared to December 2006. If they kept pouring money into advertisement this month then it explains their February rating increase.
From the same list sorted by number of sponsored clicks, bizrate.com is #10 with 398.3 millions impressions (down 2.31%) and shopzilla.com is #9 with 435.3 millions impressions (up 10.36%).
| # | Web Site | Alexa Rank | Page Rank | Online Since | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shopping.yahoo.com | 1(*) | 8 | 18-Jan-1995 | ||
| 2 | shopping.msn.com | 2(*) | 8 | 10-Nov-1994 | ||
| 3 | froogle.google.com | 3(*) | 8 | 11-Sep-2001 | ||
| 4 | shopping.aol.com | 50(*) | (-2.04%) | 8 | 22-Jun-1995 | |
| 5 | shopper.cnet.com | 112(*) | (-4.67%) | 8 | 05-Jul-1996 | |
| 6 | nextag.com | 430 | (-4.37%) | 7 | 15-Oct-1998 | |
| 7 | shopping.com | 434 | (-1.17%) | 8 | 03-Jul-1997 | |
| 8 | bizrate.com | 578 | (-11.37%) | 8 | 24-Apr-1996 | |
| 9 | pricegrabber.com | 589 | (-15.49%) | 8 | 10-Mar-1999 | |
| 10 | dealtime.com | 771 | (2.41%) | 8 | 07-Oct-1998 | |
| 11 | shoplocal.com | 942 | (-27.64%) | 8 | 24-Sep-1998 | |
| 12 | epinions.com | 1167 | (-9.07%) | 8 | 12-Feb-1999 | |
| 13 | shopzilla.com | 1260 | (-11.5%) | 7 | 04-Jul-2002 | |
| 14 | smarter.com | 2711 | (13.44%) | 6 | 28-Apr-1998 | |
| 15 | pricerunner.com | 3655 | (-2.9%) | 7 | 19-May-1999 | |
| 16 | mysimon.com | 4697 | (-1.14%) | 9 | 15-Apr-1998 | |
| 17 | pricewatch.com | 5983 | (-13.01%) | 7 | 26-Sep-1995 | |
| 18 | become.com | 7455 | (-13.14%) | 6 | 20-Jan-2004 | |
| 19 | ebates.com | 7554 | (-24.47%) | 6 | 29-Dec-1998 | |
| 20 | like.com | 14742 | (-185.86%) | 4 | 22-Feb-1995 | |
| 21 | thefind.com | 18214 | (-18.32%) | 5 | 19-Oct-2006 | |
| 22 | jellyfish.com | 18421 | (-66.62%) | 5 | 26-Jun-2006 | |
| 23 | mpire.com | 18930 | (-38.14%) | 6 | 01-Jun-2006 | |
| 24 | pricescan.com | 20527 | (-13.26%) | 6 | 03-Sep-1997 | |
| 25 | activeshopper.com | 27495 | (4.1%) | 5 | 12-Jan-1999 | |
| 26 | sortprice.com | 27552 | (7.43%) | 6 | 15-Jan-2004 | |
| 27 | pronto.com | 28719 | (-13.72%) | 8 | 01-Jan-2006 | |
| 28 | shopwiki.com | 36809 | (-45%) | 5 | 15-Dec-2004 | |
| 29 | hawkee.com | 44121 (**) | (-2.08%) | 6 | 02-Jan-1997 | |
| 30 | retrevo.com | 46171 | (6.8%) | 5 | 10-May-2006 | |
| 31 | mytriggers.com | 51878 | (-9.78%) | 4 | 09-May-2005 | |
| 32 | streetprices.com | 55841 | (-30.63%) | 5 | 16-Oct-1997 | |
| 33 | bottomdollar.com | 76469 | (-11.05%) | 8 | 04-Jul-1997 | |
| 34 | salescircular.com | 89041 | (-15.63%) | 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.
Please can you also add our site http://www.cubalaya.com to the rating? our traffic is growing fast….
thanks,
E.
Please review and consider including http://www.hagglepoint.com in your list.
Thanks.
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