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March 26, 2007

Popuri: Lots of Stats For Any Site

Michael Arrington

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If you want to see quick statistics on a website, check out newly launched Popuri. You’ll quickly see Google Page Rank, Alexa Rank, number of backlinks on Google, Yahoo and Live.com, Technorati inbound links, del.icio.us bookmarks and number of bloglines subscribers. You can also see whois information on the domain.

Some of the data isn’t correct (del.icio.us and bloglines on our domain), and the server is more than a bit shaky. But after things settle down, this will be a good way to get a quick snapshot of basic website statistics. Another good tool to gather this data, if you are a Firefox user, is the SEO for Firefox extension. If you find that you are looking for data on a lot of sites as you surf the web, the extension will be far more efficient.

Suggestions: allow multiple domains to be included and generate a basic table comparison. It would also be useful if Popuri could generate a permanent URL for any search. Statsaholic should also be including a lot of this data.

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  1. Anshul

    March 26th, 2007 at 2:09 am

    Cant see the value add here. A lot of sites do the same thing

  2. Allen

    March 26th, 2007 at 2:16 am

    If the server is already shaky, this could be another case of TechCrunch taking down a site after having a blog entry about it… hehehe…

  3. Steve

    March 26th, 2007 at 2:27 am

    So how is this different from SEOQuake and SEO for firefox?? Which by the way don’t rely on a “flakey server”

  4. Flavio Rump

    March 26th, 2007 at 2:28 am

    checkout Aaron Wall’s awesome SEO extension for Firefox for even more information…

    http://tools.seobook.com/firef.....refox.html

  5. RBA

    March 26th, 2007 at 2:28 am

    It looks like it fetches the data in realtime. If that’s the case, the shakyness very well could be because the external sites take their time to respond.

  6. Brian

    March 26th, 2007 at 2:33 am

    A good snapshot, but still a lot of bugs. Not sure if this is the problem with application or the way that Google is counting backlinks, but using Popuri most sites have no Google backlinks(try myspace) and that definitely can not be the case.
    I also am surprised at how low my Google backlinks are when I check my Google sitemaps account, so there is some truth to Popuri stats. Try several sites on Popuri and you will see they have no Google Backlinks. Can anyone offer some suggestions on what is happening and how to fix it? Why is there such a huge disparity between backlinks of the major search engines?

  7. Orli Yakuel

    March 26th, 2007 at 2:34 am

    Del.icio.us Rank: 10,101 people saved TechCrunch URL
    Amazing!

    It would have been nice to have feedburner data too.

  8. Michael Arrington

    March 26th, 2007 at 2:35 am

    Steve & Flavio - cool. I hadn’t heard of it, but I added it to the post.

  9. Dania

    March 26th, 2007 at 2:35 am

    My latest blog entry was about URI/URL.. I’m not a techie and am wondering why a domain with a “www” prefix will show a different result than the domain without it. Can anybody help me understand?
    Thanks a lot in advance!
    Dania

  10. Jamie

    March 26th, 2007 at 2:42 am

    These sites are absolutely everywhere and a dime a dozen and sell on the likes of digitalpoint/sitepoint every week - so how did this get onto Techcrunch?

    You could also buy the script for around $15-20, $50 at most.

  11. Juan Xavier Larrea

    March 26th, 2007 at 2:48 am

    Thanks for the mention.

    Sorry, due to the inmense amount of requests (hint, Techcrunch), a couple of services have banned popuri from fetching results. I hope to have this fixed in the next couple of hours.

  12. mad4

    March 26th, 2007 at 3:06 am

    Why is a $20 script worthy of appearing on this blog? If you really want a good tool use http://www.seomoz.org/page-strength

  13. visible.mobi

    March 26th, 2007 at 3:08 am

    It would be nice if you could click on the data to get detailed information…

  14. Ron Corbet

    March 26th, 2007 at 3:14 am

    “So how is this different from SEOQuake and SEO for firefox?? ”

    It has been covered by Techcrunch, the other two, have not.

    ;)

  15. Nik Cubrilovic

    March 26th, 2007 at 3:33 am

    I have a suggestion - how about multiple sites/URLs and comparing them in a table, with the best figure in each one highlited?

    Feedburner would be nice as well - you can extract subscriber info for a blog on FB if they have activated the clicklet. Sometimes you find blogs who have activated the clicklet but haven’t necessarily published the feedcount on their sites, so you can dig up all their stats without them knowing it. Use this API query:

    http://api.feedburner.com/awar.....Techcrunch

    where uri is either the feed url or feedburner feedname (in this case Techcrunch). If you look at the data, you will see that it gives you the subscriber count (not rounded off), the number of hits (which is click-throughs) and ‘reach’ (not sure what that is)

  16. Suggestion

    March 26th, 2007 at 3:38 am

    keep posting rubbish.

  17. yongfook

    March 26th, 2007 at 3:39 am

    “So how is this different from SEOQuake and SEO for firefox?? ”

    This one has Web2.0.

    Cute site, but I can’t help feel that I’ve used many services like this before.

  18. ketyung

    March 26th, 2007 at 4:05 am

    By the way, it doesn’t seem to show Technorati ranking, it shows only the inbounds link. Of course, Technorati inbound links failed to work now, I guess the reason also the overwhelming request and got banned :D

  19. Natasha

    March 26th, 2007 at 6:05 am

    Looks very similar to
    http://www.socialmeter.com

  20. Mukesh

    March 26th, 2007 at 6:31 am

    Remove the Nofollow man.. Nofollow sucks. Give people who comment on your blog and the people who make up your blog and help you earn so much revenues some credit back. Remove the nofollow on comments. I am sure you can hire someone to moderate your comments, so why use a stupid concept like nofollow?? Check this article out for size:

    http://www.searchenginejournal.....suck/4410/

    Thanks

  21. rack pallet

    March 26th, 2007 at 6:52 am

    By the shear reaction to this; I sense some jealousy.

    - that someone and/or everyone is upset and thinks their site is better and should have instead had their site featured on TC.

    - I say lets give the guy some props; for getting on TC.

    -RB

  22. Dharmesh Shah

    March 26th, 2007 at 7:10 am

    As long as we’re talking about alternatives:

    http://www.websitegrader.com

    Not only shows the data, but does a relative comparison against a pool of sites and provides suggestions on improvement.

  23. ketyung

    March 26th, 2007 at 7:21 am

    The one socialmeter.com has no ranking such as Alexa or page rank. Furthermore popuri is ajax-based, no page refresh….

  24. ketyung

    March 26th, 2007 at 7:24 am

    Websitegrader.com works much slower in loading the data than popuri. but offering too much detailed..

  25. DMOZter

    March 26th, 2007 at 7:29 am

    It would be nice if it included the categories (if any) that the site was listed under in DMOZ.

  26. Attention Techcrunch,

    March 26th, 2007 at 7:53 am

    Please notify a site before you feature so they can get ready to have their servers overloaded. Its no fun to have to go rummaging through google’s cache to find stuff.

    Maybe you can post when it goes back up again.

  27. pr0xy k1ll3r

    March 26th, 2007 at 7:59 am

    Can’t access site anymore thanks to TC traffic. Is it high time we build TCmirror like dugmirror? :)

  28. Manas

    March 26th, 2007 at 8:02 am

    Looks like one of the same old info aggregation engines from the screenshot.

    Site not opening as of now… thanks to the TechCrunch link.

  29. ketyung

    March 26th, 2007 at 9:05 am

    haha so TC is now a site overloader?

  30. Basicity

    March 26th, 2007 at 9:19 am

    I like the name Popuri; it sounds nice! Too bad they don’t have the .com extension.

  31. Michael Müller

    March 26th, 2007 at 9:25 am

    Great tool. Thanks Juan Xavier.

  32. Wanna

    March 26th, 2007 at 9:51 am

    The site loads very slow. Sometime, it gives blank page.

  33. Simon North

    March 26th, 2007 at 10:05 am

    It must be extremely popular now, because it wont load for me. I’ve tried some of the other services mentioned in the comments, I never knew how unpopular my blog actually is, go on visit it and make me happy :)

  34. w2i

    March 26th, 2007 at 10:13 am

    I was unable to open the site…

  35. Runa

    March 26th, 2007 at 10:29 am

    Me too… that’s a pity, for it seems to be a very useful seo tool.

  36. DP81

    March 26th, 2007 at 11:15 am

    I realize I may be a 1%er here at TechCrunch, but Im not a fan of Firefox. Are there similar (SEOQuake and SEO for firefox) IE extensions out there? Thanks.

  37. Dan Gudema

    March 26th, 2007 at 11:59 am

    When you finally get the site open, you will find that it is just a page with 10 stats on it. Saves you a little bit of time. Hopefully they can really find some value compared with Alexa, Quantcast and Compete.

  38. BeachLocal

    March 26th, 2007 at 12:19 pm

    Where is the site…won’t load for me. Bummer for them. Plus, the .us stinks compared to .com.

  39. Jim5

    March 26th, 2007 at 12:47 pm

    An alternative with permalinks:

    http://dndetails.com/techcrunch.com

  40. judas

    March 26th, 2007 at 1:16 pm

    popuri is mis spelled too bad

  41. ketyung

    March 26th, 2007 at 4:09 pm

    I think there are quite a number of sites offer similar tools. I’m pretty sure such a tool, is pretty easy to build. Popuri just the lucky one, picked by TC to send massive traffic to crash it :D

  42. Natasha

    March 26th, 2007 at 4:21 pm

    Dharmesh Shah — thanks for the WebsiteGrader link —
    it gives more useful info.

  43. Aleksashka

    March 26th, 2007 at 4:53 pm

    What other useful sites like popuri you would recommend?

  44. Paul

    March 26th, 2007 at 5:52 pm

    This was released (or hyped) a little too prematurely. There is no real value add to this tool and it didn’t work during several of my tests.

  45. ketyung

    March 26th, 2007 at 6:16 pm

    It looks like we have much more than enough of these tools. Simply a waste. Other than using it for checking the stats of our website/blog, what else we can use it for ?

  46. Steven

    March 31st, 2007 at 11:52 am

    Thanks for the article, I had not used popuri.us before but it is a good resource for some quick information on a site. It’s not perfect, but still gives some usable information quickly.

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