Update: for the latest revision of this list go to Popular price comparison sites - October 2008. This is August 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 July results. The list has a total of 33 web sites compared to 34 last month. One more price comparison engine is out, this time it is activeshopper.com who joins 15 more sites in my database that don’t meet Alexa Rank < 100,000 requirement. The leader this month is pronto.com (27.84%). This site actually shows very strong growth over the past several months. It has been holding first or second spot since May, and has had positive Alexa rank growth since March. Update: read this article on CNN Money about Pronto introducing social functionality. On the down side, the worst result comes from dealighted.com (-26.69%) who might not hold very long in this list if the trend continues (they had one of the worst results last month as well). (*) 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.
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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
11-Sep-2001
4
shopping.aol.com
54 (*)
(3.57%)
8
22-Jun-1995
5
shopper.cnet.com
164 (*)
(-0.61%)
7
05-Jul-1996
6
shopping.com
468
(7.69%)
8
03-Jul-1997
7
dealtime.com
574
(19.61%)
8
07-Oct-1998
8
nextag.com
757
(-4.99%)
7
15-Oct-1998
9
bizrate.com
782
(-1.56%)
8
24-Apr-1996
10
pricegrabber.com
1063
(-7.37%)
9
10-Mar-1999
11
shoplocal.com
1451
(5.47%)
8
24-Sep-1998
12
epinions.com
1880
(-7.31%)
8
12-Feb-1999
13
shopzilla.com
2029
(-5.13%)
7
04-Jul-2002
14
smarter.com
2129
(14.84%)
7
28-Apr-1998
15
calibex.com
3446
(14.89%)
5
02-Oct-2000
16
pricerunner.com
5816
(-3.89%)
7
19-May-1999
17 (
2)pronto.com
8205
(27.84%)
8
01-Jan-2006
18 (
1)mysimon.com
10027
(-6.17%)
8
15-Apr-1998
19 (
1)become.com
10784
(3.95%)
7
20-Jan-2004
20
pricewatch.com
12360
(-6.28%)
6
26-Sep-1995
21
ebates.com
15609
(-5.47%)
6
29-Dec-1998
22
thefind.com
18384
(-9.17%)
6
19-Oct-2006
23
sortprice.com
21022
(-9.55%)
7
15-Jan-2004
24
mpire.com
25106
(-25.36%)
5
01-Jun-2006
25 (
1)like.com
28783
(2.44%)
6
22-Feb-1995
26 (
1)bestwebbuys.com
29893
(0.02%)
8
06-Jan-1998
27 (
2)jellyfish.com
33037
(-19.16%)
5
26-Jun-2006
28
pricescan.com
39519
(-11.27%)
6
03-Sep-1997
29 (
1)retrevo.com
59010
(8.81%)
6
10-May-2006
30 (
1)shopwiki.com
62104
(-5.45%)
5
15-Dec-2004
31 (
2)bottomdollar.com
73109
(5.18%)
9
04-Jul-1997
32
hawkee.com
73608 (**)
(4.27%)
6
02-Jan-1997
33 (
2)dealighted.com (info)
85108
(-26.69%)
5
09-Oct-2006
4 Responses to “Popular price comparison sites - August 2007”
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Nice list. Personally however, I found that the “biggest” sites aren’t always the best.
There are 7 sites that I use over and over again when shopping online for bargains. Details:
http://www.essistme.com/2007/0.....tes-i-use/
It would be interesting to populate a list of comparison sites based on Quantcast’s metrics. The issue with Alexa rankings is that it is based on a younger audience who has installed the Alexa toolbar.
As a vertical comparison engine focusing on health products, http://www.healthpricer.com has a traffic rank of ~7500 and should be somewhere in the top 25 of the list.
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