Published March 12th, 2010
in Popular Sites Series.
This is February 2010 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 32 web sites which is one less than the last month (bestwebbuys.com is out after being the worst site for 3 months in a row). There are 18 more sites in my database that don’t meet Alexa Rank < 100,000 requirement. The average price comparison site has lost (10.61%) this month
The best performer this month is again sortprice.com (3.13%) followed by like.com with a gain of (1.25%). The worst performer this month is dealighted.com with a loss of (-65.85%) followed by (again) shoplocal.com (-43.05%). Please enjoy the complete list below.
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Published May 9th, 2007
in Popular Sites Series.
This is April 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 March results. The list has a total of 34 web sites. There are 14 more in my database that didn’t meet the Alexa Rank < 100,000 requirement.
On average the rating declined by 7.27% which is an improvement over the last month’s 15.88%. mytriggers.com dropped out of the list this month (I guess the idea of subscribing to price changes never took off), and I added two new participants: calibex.com and bestwebbuys.com.
The winner in April is again sortprice.com with a gain of 25.79%. It sounds like this was anticipated since I got a comment from them just today inquiring on the next update. If I hadn’t added calibex.com, sortprice.com would have jumped from #21 to #20 as they outpaced thefind.com.
The worst performer is like.com with a Alexa loss of 23.83% (beating pricewatch.com by just a notch). The decrease comes as a part of a long slide (pictured below) the website is experiencing ever since they debuted their “colorful” service late last year. Surprisingly though their Google rank increased this update.
Another interesting development is pricegrabber.com (and bottomdollar.com who are a part of pricegrabber.com) gaining Google rank of 9 which is more than anyone else in the list.
Overall Price Comparison sites fared much better than Deal Sites who I reviewed just last week. Enjoy the complete list below!
(*) 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.
Published April 7th, 2007
in Popular Sites Series.
This is March 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 33 web sites. There are 13 more in my database that didn’t meet the Alexa Rank < 100,000 requirement.
On average the rating declined by 15.88% which is an improvement over the last month’s 16.41%. There was one site that dropped out of the list this month, that is bottomdollar.com
sortprice.com leads the pack with a rating growth of 32.46%. mytriggers.com is the biggest loser with a rating drop of 61.9%. Find the complete list below.
(*) 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.
Published February 5th, 2007
in Popular Sites Series.
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.
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!
(*) 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.
Published January 5th, 2007
in Popular Sites Series.
This is December 2006 revision of the Popular Price Comparison web sites list. You can find the last month revision of the list here.
Hawkee enjoyed a nice ride this month (up 34.16%) after it was featured at TechCrunch. It is amazing what difference a single post on a popular blog can make.
The next best performer is TheFind with 29.68% increase. I will attribute this rise to their active advertisement campaign (including that on TechCrunch as well).
Sortprice is the worst performer. The change is not that significant though, only 9.76% down. On average price comparison sites seem to be doing much better than the bargain hunting sites that I reviewed recently.
(*) 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.
