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Popular price comparison sites – November 2007

This is November 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 October results. The list has a total of 34 web sites and there are 15 more sites in my database that don’t meet Alexa Rank < 100,000 requirement.

retrevo.com (27.67%) had the best rating change in November after launching a redesign and getting to a few popular blogs. I evaluated their “value map” when it was just announced and honestly I don’t see much value in it. The analysis is too sketchy to my liking. When I shop for a gadget I tend to dig much deeper.

The worst result comes from smarter.com (-16.95%). I don’t have an explanation to this other than a guess that they possibly stopped sinking money into advertising. ;-)

# 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 (*) 7 10-Nov-1994
4 shopping.aol.com 53 (*) (-1.92%) 8 22-Jun-1995
5 shopper.cnet.com 194 (*) (-8.38%) 8 05-Jul-1996
6 shopping.com 410 (7.03%) 8 03-Jul-1997
7 dealtime.com 533 (2.74%) 7 07-Oct-1998
8 nextag.com 880 (2%) 6 15-Oct-1998
9 bizrate.com 1027 (-8.56%) 7 24-Apr-1996
10 (1) shoplocal.com 1089 (24.53%) 7 24-Sep-1998
11 (1) pricegrabber.com 1162 (0.43%) 8 10-Mar-1999
12 epinions.com 2249 (-0.4%) 8 12-Feb-1999
13 (1) shopzilla.com 2261 (6.76%) 7 04-Jul-2002
14 (1) smarter.com 2822 (-16.95%) 6 28-Apr-1998
15 calibex.com 4293 (-4%) 4 02-Oct-2000
16 pronto.com 4689 (11.23%) 8 01-Jan-2006
17 pricerunner.com 6629 (2.28%) 6 19-May-1999
18 become.com 6867 (15.25%) 6 20-Jan-2004
19 mysimon.com 9654 (8.83%) 8 15-Apr-1998
20 pricewatch.com 13745 (-2.52%) 6 26-Sep-1995
21 ebates.com 15200 (5.04%) 6 29-Dec-1998
22 (1) mpire.com 22075 (19.48%) 5 01-Jun-2006
23 (1) jellyfish.com 25548 (6.86%) 5 26-Jun-2006
24 (1) bestwebbuys.com 28276 (-1.05%) 7 06-Jan-1998
25 (3) sortprice.com 28959 (-14.42%) 6 15-Jan-2004
26 like.com 30458 (-0.62%) 5 22-Feb-1995
27 thefind.com 36810 (-8.76%) 6 19-Oct-2006
28 (1) retrevo.com 37598 (27.67%) 5 10-May-2006
29 (1) pricescan.com 41878 (8.34%) 6 03-Sep-1997
30 (2) dealighted.com (info) 57058 (23.8%) 6 09-Oct-2006
31 hawkee.com 62574 (**) (7.77%) 5 02-Jan-1997
32 (2) shopwiki.com 63062 (5.96%) 5 15-Dec-2004
33 bottomdollar.com 95757 (-16.49%) 8 04-Jul-1997
34 (1) streetprices.com 97602 (10.02%) 5 16-Oct-1997

(*) 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 – February 2007

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.

Like.com Rank

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.

Popular price comparison sites – January 2007

This is January 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 December results. I reworked the script calculating Page Rank to use multiple data centers. As the result some of the improvements in Page Rank account for this change.

The biggest gainer is Smarter with Alexa rank gain of 14.12%. The website has been a consistent performer over the last 6 months.

Smarter Alexa Rank

By the way, did you know Smarter has mobile price alerts? You can check price of an item online while in store using SMS on your cell phone.

The worst performer this month second time in a row is Sortprice with a huge rank drop of -49.38%. Enjoy the rest of the stats below!

#Web SiteAlexa RankPage RankOnline Since
1shopping.yahoo.com 1(*) 8 (-1)18-Jan-1995
2shopping.msn.com 2(*) 8 (-1)10-Nov-1994
3froogle.google.com 3(*) 8 (-1)11-Sep-2001
4shopping.aol.com 49(*) (-11.36%)8 (8)22-Jun-1995
5shopper.cnet.com 107(*) (0.93%)8 05-Jul-1996
6nextag.com 412 (-0.98%)7 15-Oct-1998
7shopping.com 429 (-1.66%)8 03-Jul-1997
8pricegrabber.com 510 (-6.92%)8 10-Mar-1999
9bizrate.com 519 (-5.27%)8 24-Apr-1996
10shoplocal.com 738 (-5.13%)8 (1)24-Sep-1998
11dealtime.com 790 (7.6%)8 07-Oct-1998
12epinions.com 1070 (-7.11%)8 12-Feb-1999
13shopzilla.com 1130 (-12.55%)7 (-1)04-Jul-2002
14smarter.com 3132 (14.12%)6 28-Apr-1998
15pricerunner.com 3552 (-2.9%)7 (4)19-May-1999
16mysimon.com 4644 (0.21%)9 (1)15-Apr-1998
17like.com 5157 (13.7%)4 22-Feb-1995
18pricewatch.com 5294 (-12.71%)7 26-Sep-1995
19ebates.com 6069 (-11.77%)6 29-Dec-1998
20become.com 6589 (-8.03%)6 20-Jan-2004
21jellyfish.com 11056 (2.73%)5 (4)26-Jun-2006
22mpire.com 13703 (-6.27%)6 (1)01-Jun-2006
23thefind.com 15394 (9.12%)5 (5)19-Oct-2006
24pricescan.com 18124 (-9.1%)6 03-Sep-1997
25pronto.com 25254 (3.48%)8 (5)01-Jan-2006
26shopwiki.com 25385 (-6.23%)5 (3)15-Dec-2004
27activeshopper.com 28669 (2.82%)5 (1)12-Jan-1999
28sortprice.com 29763 (-49.38%)6 (1)15-Jan-2004
29streetprices.com 42749 (-25.3%)5 (-1)16-Oct-1997
30hawkee.com 43222(**) (8.08%)6 (4)02-Jan-1997
31mytriggers.com 47258 (-0.69%)4 (3)09-May-2005
32retrevo.com 49540 (-5.95%)5 (5)10-May-2006
33ugenie.com 62054 (-9.84%)3 (1)02-Nov-2006
34pricefight.com 68176 (7.83%)5 (5)17-Nov-2006
35bottomdollar.com 68860 (-2.34%)8 (8)04-Jul-1997
36salescircular.com 77002 (-15.75%)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.




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