Update: for the latest revision of this list go to Popular price comparison sites - October 2008.
This is July 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 June results. The list has a total of 34 web sites compared to 35 last month. One more price comparison engine is out, this time it is streetprices.com who joins 14 more sites in my database that don’t meet Alexa Rank < 100,000 requirement.
calibex.com (21.71%), the NexTag company, is leading today’s list closely followed by pronto.com (21.39%) who have recently launched a site redesign (currently in beta) featuring such social features as product ranking by users and product reviews.
The worst result comes from activeshopper.com (-86.42%) which suddenly drops to the last position in the list. Does anyone have an explanation to this?
| # | 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 (*) | 0 | (-8) | 11-Sep-2001 | |
| 4 | shopping.aol.com | 56 (*) | (-5.66%) | 8 | 22-Jun-1995 | |
| 5 | shopper.cnet.com | 163 (*) | (-3.16%) | 7 | 05-Jul-1996 | |
| 6 | shopping.com | 507 | (2.69%) | 8 | 03-Jul-1997 | |
7 ( 2) |
dealtime.com | 714 | (13.87%) | 8 | 07-Oct-1998 | |
8 ( 1) |
nextag.com | 721 | (-8.75%) | 7 | 15-Oct-1998 | |
| 9 (1) |
bizrate.com | 770 | (-2.67%) | 8 | 24-Apr-1996 | |
| 10 | pricegrabber.com | 990 | (-8.2%) | 9 | 10-Mar-1999 | |
| 11 | shoplocal.com | 1535 | (-1.05%) | 8 | 24-Sep-1998 | |
| 12 | epinions.com | 1752 | (-2.46%) | 8 | 12-Feb-1999 | |
| 13 | shopzilla.com | 1930 | 7 | 04-Jul-2002 | ||
| 14 | smarter.com | 2500 | (14.79%) | 7 | 28-Apr-1998 | |
| 15 | calibex.com | 4049 | (21.71%) | 5 | 02-Oct-2000 | |
| 16 | pricerunner.com | 5598 | (-0.77%) | 7 | 19-May-1999 | |
| 17 | mysimon.com | 9444 | (-17.01%) | 8 | 15-Apr-1998 | |
| 18 (1) |
become.com | 11228 | (3.65%) | 7 | 20-Jan-2004 | |
| 19 (2) |
pronto.com | 11371 | (21.39%) | 8 | 01-Jan-2006 | |
| 20 (2) |
pricewatch.com | 11630 | (-7.55%) | 6 | 26-Sep-1995 | |
| 21 (1) |
ebates.com | 14800 | (-6.81%) | 6 | 29-Dec-1998 | |
| 22 (1) |
thefind.com | 16840 | (1.42%) | 6 | 19-Oct-2006 | |
| 23 (1) |
sortprice.com | 19190 | (-14.7%) | 7 | 15-Jan-2004 | |
| 24 | mpire.com | 20027 | (-3.68%) | 5 | 01-Jun-2006 | |
| 25 (1) |
jellyfish.com | 27725 | (-3.01%) | 5 | 26-Jun-2006 | |
| 26 (1) |
like.com | 29503 | (-1.76%) | 6 | 22-Feb-1995 | |
| 27 (2) |
bestwebbuys.com | 29898 | (-11.51%) | 8 | 06-Jan-1998 | |
| 28 | pricescan.com | 35515 | (-10.15%) | 6 | 03-Sep-1997 | |
| 29 (2) |
shopwiki.com | 58894 | (-3.25%) | 5 | 15-Dec-2004 | |
| 30 (2) |
retrevo.com | 64712 | (3.1%) | 6 | 10-May-2006 | |
| 31 (1) |
dealighted.com (info) | 67178 | (-45.99%) | 5 | 09-Oct-2006 | |
| 32 (1) |
hawkee.com | 76892 (**) | (4.31%) | 6 | 02-Jan-1997 | |
| 33 (1) |
bottomdollar.com | 77099 | (7.29%) | 9 | 04-Jul-1997 | |
| 34 (5) |
activeshopper.com | 85402 | (-86.42%) | 5 | 12-Jan-1999 | |
(*) Note: traffic stats for these sites is an 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.
Any insights into sales generated by these sights? Be interesting to rank them by 1)sales generated to merchants listed on their sites, 2)clicks to the merchants listed on their sites, and 3)amount of REAL traffic (i.e. organic traffic as opposed to paid traffic from Google and the like, which can be inflated to make a site look big without saying anything about the real health of the company).
Thoughts?
Torkem
It would be real hard if impossible to obtain any financial data including conversions (clicks through to merchants). These are not public companies (for the most part).
As for the traffic, I have done some research in the past and when comparing apples to apples (sites within the same category) Alexa is a very good indication of how well a site is doing.
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