Quarkbase is an online service that provides “everything” about a site. Of course, there is no such thing as a service that can do “everything” in this world. Not even Google, Yahoo, or Microsoft can do it.
“Everything about a site”, at least, that’s how Quarkbase sees itself.
It’s an interesting tool to find out how your own site/blog is going and also a good tool when you are planning to advertise on a site/blog. So what sort of information can you find on Quarkbase?
On Quarkbase, you can see details about the domain of the site, its web host, its popular pages, how many links submitted to some social bookmarking sites, Alexa rank statistics, the most popular countries of its visitors, and many more.
If you are going to advertise on a site/blog, try to look for this information (that can be obtained from Quarkbase):
- Traffic Rank (Alexa) and also its history (is it getting better or getting worse each month?)
- Popular pages (if you want to advertise on a single post, rather than the site-wide)
- It’s Subscriber count (don’t trust what you see on the site – it can be faked)
- The expiry of the domain (if it’s going to be expired, you may want to reconsider)
- The Top Countries (visitors), if your site is selling a product in Canada, you probably need to reconsider advertising on my blog, for example, as you can see from the screenshot below, Canada is not on my Top Countries):
All of this information is available on Quark.com. However, some of them are out of date. For example, I’ve already extended my domain for another 5 years, but Quark still displays it as 9th January 2009 on the page.
The Alexa graph is also out of date, although I’m not sure by how much:
Nevertheless, it is still interesting to find out more about your site/blog and also about someone else’s site/blog. Either it’s for business purpose or just for fun, have a look at Quarkbase.com!
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Oh, I ve got a very shy result, won’t post it here coz i am shy,
lol Haruyoshi, give us your site and we can check it out! No one will ever know about your site if you don’t let anyone know about it! Nice, now i can check out some sites and see if they are popular! Thx Mike!
I know this tool from few months back only. But the difference between you and me is. You made a post to share with your readers.
Hm… i also have to start posting to increase the frequency. now a days i have reduced publishing the posts because of India v Australia Test Series. Will start posting again…
Luckily, I’m not into Cricket
This service shows many pieces of information that would normally have to be searched for one-by-one. Having the data that represents social media sharing of one’s material is a great way to look at the whole package of the spreading performed by one’s site. One can also more easily see where their strengths and missing components are.
Yup. Although the information is not purely accurate (I have some zeros on my social bookmarking even though they are not meant to be zeros)
The factors that are determinant in a website’s http://www.alexa.com/data/details/main?url=www.fortunehotels.in Alexa rankings apart from the data collected from the users of the Alexa toolbar are no where clearly mentioned. This somehow brings in a question of doubt and credibility issues as far as the Alexa rankings are concerned. However, even today the Alexa toolbar has the largest chunk in determining the ranking of a website.
Yeah, it’s one of the thing that advertisers use to validate a site’s traffic/popularity
This is so cool and understandable.. I should adopt this mix of images and text descriptiives in my blogs..