Update: for the latest revision of this list go to Popular price comparison sites - February 2010.
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).
| # | 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 | |
(*) 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.
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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