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Popular price comparison sites – January 2009

This is January 2009 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. The list has a total of 35 web sites which is the same number as the last month. There are 17 more sites in my database that don’t meet Alexa Rank < 100,000 requirement.

The best performer this month is shopwiki.com with a gain of (16.82%) followed by calibex.com (13.65%). They take the lead from ebates and shoplocal who were in the first and second spot for a couple months in a row

The worst performer this month is mpire which is dying slow death ever since the team abandoned the project in favor of widgetbucks shopping ads platform

# Web Site Alexa Rank Page Rank Online Since
1 shopping.yahoo.com 1 (*) 8 18-Jan-1995
2 froogle.google.com 2 (*) 7 11-Sep-2001
3 live.com 4 (*) 8 22-May-2008
4 shopping.msn.com 6 (*) 7 10-Nov-1994
5 shopping.aol.com 28 (*) 7 22-Jun-1995
6 shopper.cnet.com (info) 150 (*) (0.66%) 8 05-Jul-1996
7 nextag.com 431 (7.71%) 7 15-Oct-1998
8 shopping.com 492 (-1.65%) 7 03-Jul-1997
9 bizrate.com 569 (-3.08%) 7 (5) 24-Apr-1996
10 shoplocal.com 620 (2.97%) 7 24-Sep-1998
11 shopzilla.com 1000 (8.17%) 6 04-Jul-2002
12 (1) pricegrabber.com (info) 1103 (4.75%) 7 10-Mar-1999
13 (1) pronto.com 1115 (0.89%) 8 01-Jan-2006
14 smarter.com 1745 (2.62%) 5 28-Apr-1998
15 epinions.com 2008 (0.45%) 7 12-Feb-1999
16 (1) thefind.com (info) 2311 (4.11%) 6 19-Oct-2006
17 (1) dealtime.com 2338 (-5.98%) 6 07-Oct-1998
18 become.com 3718 (-4.61%) 6 20-Jan-2004
19 pricerunner.com 3989 (0.82%) 6 19-May-1999
20 (2) shopwiki.com 4015 (16.82%) 5 15-Dec-2004
21 (1) dealio.com 4354 (0.77%) 5 08-Sep-2004
22 (1) like.com 5415 (-16.88%) 6 22-Feb-1995
23 (1) retrevo.com 6446 (11.37%) 6 10-May-2006
24 (1) ebates.com 6748 (-7.76%) 5 29-Dec-1998
25 (1) calibex.com 7144 (13.65%) 5 02-Oct-2000
26 (1) mysimon.com 7610 (6.27%) 8 15-Apr-1998
27 pricewatch.com 13359 (3.66%) 6 26-Sep-1995
28 bottomdollar.com 15667 (-5.92%) 7 04-Jul-1997
29 dealighted.com (info) 16482 (-0.06%) 5 09-Oct-2006
30 sortprice.com 26326 (-2.93%) 5 15-Jan-2004
31 bestwebbuys.com 33226 (-0.08%) 6 06-Jan-1998
32 pricescan.com 34033 (0.51%) 6 03-Sep-1997
33 hawkee.com 43305 (**) (12.49%) 6 02-Jan-1997
34 (1) streetprices.com 63560 (9.22%) 5 16-Oct-1997
35 (1) mpire.com 69384 (-13.6%) 5 01-Jun-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.

Popular price comparison sites – May 2008

This is May 2008 revision of the Popular Price Comparison web sites list. You can find the last month revision of the list here.

Just a few remarkable changes. like.com (23.68%) keeps advancing (first place for second month in a row) while calibex.com (-25.13%) lost a quarter of Alexa rank. Comparing to the data for May of last year, like.com moved from #26 to #21 while calibex.com moved from #16 to #18.

A new site has broken the 50K Alexa threshold, salescircular.com (-9.56%). It has a terrible design, tons of Google ads, and broken link to the FAQ page. I consider taking down the entry.

# Web Site Alexa Rank Page Rank Online Since
1 shopping.yahoo.com 1 (*) 8 18-Jan-1995
2 froogle.google.com 2 (*) 8 11-Sep-2001
3 shopping.msn.com 5 (*) 8 10-Nov-1994
4 shopping.aol.com 21 (*) 8 22-Jun-1995
5 shopper.cnet.com (info) 128 (*) (6.57%) 7 05-Jul-1996
6 shopping.com 375 (-8.07%) 7 03-Jul-1997
7 dealtime.com 480 (-2.78%) 7 07-Oct-1998
8 nextag.com 539 (-1.32%) 7 15-Oct-1998
9 bizrate.com 635 (-2.75%) 7 24-Apr-1996
10 (1) pricegrabber.com (info) 847 (-0.95%) 8 10-Mar-1999
11 (1) shoplocal.com 850 (-1.43%) 8 24-Sep-1998
12 shopzilla.com 1172 (-3.9%) 7 04-Jul-2002
13 epinions.com 1463 (9.8%) 7 12-Feb-1999
14 pronto.com 1849 (-2.78%) 7 01-Jan-2006
15 smarter.com 1923 (-6.36%) 6 28-Apr-1998
16 become.com 2765 (0.25%) 6 20-Jan-2004
17 (1) pricerunner.com 4655 (6.38%) 7 19-May-1999
18 (1) calibex.com 5123 (-25.13%) 4 02-Oct-2000
19 mysimon.com 6274 (-9.11%) 8 15-Apr-1998
20 thefind.com (info) 7026 (3.89%) 6 19-Oct-2006
21 like.com 7645 (23.68%) 5 22-Feb-1995
22 retrevo.com 8773 (21.74%) 6 10-May-2006
23 pricewatch.com 11591 (-2.44%) 6 26-Sep-1995
24 ebates.com 11818 (-1.21%) 6 29-Dec-1998
25 (1) dealighted.com (info) 20167 (8.54%) 6 09-Oct-2006
26 (1) sortprice.com 21038 (-8.35%) 6 15-Jan-2004
27 bestwebbuys.com 26021 (-5.43%) 7 06-Jan-1998
28 shopwiki.com 26325 (4.46%) 5 15-Dec-2004
29 jellyfish.com 34016 (-13.61%) 5 26-Jun-2006
30 pricescan.com 37229 (-4.52%) 6 03-Sep-1997
31 mpire.com 41928 (-17.3%) 6 01-Jun-2006
32 hawkee.com 67325 (-21.49%) 5 02-Jan-1997
33 (1) bottomdollar.com 74973 (13.96%) 4 04-Jul-1997
34 (1) streetprices.com 83261 (-0.31%) 5 16-Oct-1997
35 (1) salescircular.com 97877 (-9.56%) 5 09-Jun-1998

(*) 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.

Popular price comparison sites – July 2007

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.




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