The folks over at eSnips have created a simple website for tracking “Web 2.0″ traffic trends. The website uses Alexa data. I’d love to see someone create a similar website that ranks these Web 2.0 websites (or rather, these ones) by using various other measurements, such as # of backlinks in Technorati and # of mentions on blogs indexed by Technorati.
Editor’s Note: This post was written by guest contributor Steve Poland, whose blog Techquila Shots brainstorms web start-up ideas.
Many People use spurious ways of generating hits to their sites, I think there should be a bare minimum time criteria duration for measuring the hits, for exmaple 15 seconds or a minute depending on the content of the site and all that volatile numbers would immediately come down.
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i think this also.
And Alexa data is so bad
it’s a fun, little novelty site – i added it to my bookmarks
Web2innovations.com basically estimates web 2.0 concepts and ideas by using 75 criteria based on which an overall web 2.0 ranking is given http://web2inno...s.com/criteria/
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Alexa data does indeed suck, it comes from a certain demographic and doesn’t represet a cross-section of internet-users. Perhaps this is impossible due to business constraints or privacy concerns, but I’d love to see someone step-up and go to the ISP’s and strike a deal to get Alexa type usage data. Imagine if you could get the stats straight from the ISP’s who clearly have it? That could be a good business opportunity, assuming ISP’s didn’t say no or charge an unjustifiable amount for the data.
Alexa is confusing sometime.It doesnt give a ranking of sites which are included in subdirectories.And a page of mine on googlepages have the traffic ranking which is same as google pages….so what they are upto?
good resource for wannabe entrepreneurs. look at how ventures are moving in the WEB 2.0 domain.
Nice toy!! would be cool to have a compare feature.
Jay Adair:
A large portion of Compete.com’s data is ISP data.
Alexaholic/Seth Godin has had a list of top sites based on Alexa rankings for a long time.
http://www.alex...c.com/sethgodin
Also, the guys over at seomoz.com have a page strength tool that evaluates based on Yahoo!, Google, Technorati, de.licio.us, among others.
http://www.seom.../page-strength/
Now, if someone can mashup all the services and tools into one user friendly site it would be great.
I’ve been working on a free tool called Website Grader that does some of what you are looking for (looks at a bunch of different data points regarding a website, applies a uniform distribution curve and determines a relative grade). Basically, it looks at a website and assigns a percentile score.
You can see it here: http://www.websitegrader.com
Still a work in progress, but about 6,000 websites have been processed.
It seems esnips generated this list from past techcrunch posts
Alexa is a bad indicator of specific traffic trends because it relies on users who have the alexatoolbar installed.
A much better indication of social activity is http://www.technorati.com . Technorati provides the most statistically accurate publicly available prortrayal of active social websites.
there is alraedy a website at http://www.13links.com which shows backlinks but not from technorati its from the yahoo index using the Yahoo Search API
there is no much detail there but its worth a visit