9 Interesting Facts About Any Website

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As bloggers, designers and consistent Internet surfers, we constantly  visit a lot of websites and blogs on daily basis. Aside from reading  the content, we get all curious too. These ponders are often figures and  data the website/blog generates, for example – the 
pageviews, 
feedreader counts, 
rankings, 
web host, 
how much money a site makes, etc.
If you are constantly checking out these figures of any websites you  go to, don’t worry because that’s a good sign. These information allows  you to understand websites you visits better, it also keeps you closer  to your competitions. If you often checkout Google PageRank, Alexa of  your website and others, we want to show you more. Here are 
9 Interesting Facts About Any Website. Full list after jump.
Disclaimer: We believe the following statistics,  figures are not absolutely accurate (perhaps, nothing are) and they  might varies from one web service to another.
1. Traffics: Visits, Pageview, Rankings 
Most of us know Alexa is flawed and the rankings might not be too  accurate. The fact is, nothing is really accurate. Any figures generated  by these public web services are as good as cross-referencing and  perhaps nothing more. The most accurate traffic figures and demographics  information will only make known to the webmaster inside their Google  Analytics, Sitemeter, etc account.
Alexa computes traffic rankings by analyzing the Web usage of  millions  of Alexa Toolbar users and data obtained from other, diverse  traffic  data sources.
 
Compete is a new breed of web analytic company. Powered by the largest pool of online consumer behavior data in the industry, 
Compete.com  is the only online competitive intelligence service that combines site   and search analytics in one site to help you quickly master online   marketing.
 
With Statbrain.com you can find out 
how many visits any site has.  Statbrain uses different resources on the web combined with   mathematical and statistical methods to estimate how many visits a   website has. Statbrain estimates the number of visits that a website has  based on offsite factors like backlinks, Alexa Rank etc.
 
Quantcast is a new media measurement service that enables advertisers  to view audience reports for  millions of sites and services to build  their brands with confidence. The free service empowers  publishers to  demonstrate the unique value of their  audiences by tagging their  websites, videos,  widgets and games for direct  measurement.
 
With Google Trends for Websites, you can get insights  into the  traffic and geographic visitation patterns of your favorite  websites.  You can compare data for up to five websites and view related  sites and  top searches for each one. 
 
2. Loading Time 
Find out what slows your site or a site you visit down. Good tools for site optimization.
Pingdom offers cost-effective and reliable server, network and  website monitoring. You can view the list of objects either in load  order or as a  hierarchy. The hierarchy view allows you to see which  objects are  linked to in for example a CSS file.Every test also shows   general statistics about the loaded page such as the total number of   objects, total load time, and size including all objects.
 
Webslug was conceived as an all encompassing way of testing site   performance. It measures load time as the user sees it. The time it   takes for a page to load fully from when the request was made.
 
WebWait is a website timer that benchmarks your website or test the  speed of your web connection. Timing is accurate because WebWait pulls  down the entire website into your browser, so          it takes into  account Ajax/Javascript processing and image loading which other tools  ignore.
 
Internet Supervision monitors the availability, performance, and  content of a website, web server and internet services from our UL  approved offices with 24/7 personnel in Washington DC, Detroit, Chicago,  Los Angeles, and Santiago, Chile.
 
Link Vendor shows the duration of a given website. This value can be  used for showing how long a website take to load and if it is better to  optimize the website or change a (slow) ISP.
 
3. Web Hosting 
Some websites took traffic spikes smoothly. Wonder who’s hosting for them? Check them out.
Who.
is is a website for performing 
whois lookups on 
domain names for many popular gTLDs and ccTLDs.
 
Who Is Hosting This is a tool that lets you discover who is hosting  any web site instantly. Enter the domain, and we’ll tell you which web  hosting company the site uses. It’s that simple!
 
4. Feed Subscribers 
Feedcompare is another web service that does the same; but instead of  comparing web traffics, it compares Feedburner feed subscriber counts.  Feedcompares supports comparison up to 4 websites/blogs and you can  generate a chart as far as 24 months view. Feedcompare reveals feed  subscriber counts as long as  you type in the FeedBurner feed name.
 
We did show you how to find out feedburner subscribers figures when  they don’t tell. Click the above link to check the tricks out. 
5. Website In- History 
Browse through 85 billion web pages archived from 1996 to a few  months  ago. To start surfing the Wayback, type in the web address of a  site or  page where you would like to start, and press enter. Then  select from  the archived dates available.
 
6. Interface Design 
Browsershots makes screen shots of a web design in different browsers.  It is a free open-source online service.
 
CrossBrowserTesting.com allows website designers see what their  website looks like in different browsers and in different operating  systems.
 
7. SEO | PageRank, Backlinks, Indexed Pages and more 
Find out how well a site is doing in popular search engines, social bookmarking and other site statistics
 
Website Grader is a free seo tool that measures the marketing  effectiveness of a website. It provides a score that incorporates things  like website traffic, SEO, social popularity and other technical  factors.
 
SEOmeter.com offers a convenient online 
SEO tool  that  allows webmasters to monitor their website’ crawling activities,  and to  collate crawling trend against their ongoing marketing campaign  and  other SEO strategies.
 
A tool to check at-a-glance the link popularity of any site based on  its ranking (Google PageRank, Alexa Rank, Technorati etc.), social  bookmarks (del.icio.us, etc), subscribers (Bloglines, etc) and more! 
 
8. Website Value 
dnScoop.com attempts to estimate a value for an  established website or a 
domain name  by using factors such as links pointing to the domain, popularity of  the domain, age of the domain, pagerank of the domain and traffic to the  domain.
 
Cubestat is a free and perfect tool for website value calculation,  estimations and information. Cubestat has an unique algorithm will  calculate and estimate the website worth, daily pageviews and daily ads  revenue of the present domain. Among the estimation it will show precise  information available for the domain. 
 
Websiteoutlook is the perfect place to evaluate any website. When   choosing to buy or sell a website having the proper information about   your investment can be crucial to your success. Websiteoutlook is   dedicated to finding all pertinent information that may pertain to your   personal interest. And it’s FREE!
 
Your Website Value is basically a calculator that evaluate the yearly   potential value of a website based on many factors such as: Number of   pages indexed in search engines; Number of sites linking to the   website; Quality of website; Popularity of the website.
 
Site Value Calculator is the easy way to check the value of your  website. It finds the value of your website with seeing your site’s  traffic trends, backlinks, alexa ranking and DMOZ links.
 
9. Everything About A Website (All in One) 
Quarkbase is a free tool to find complete information about a  website. It is a mash-up of over 30 data sources and many algorithms  gathering  information from Internet on various topics like social  popularity,  traffic, associated people, etc.
 
Domain name search tool; allows wildcard search of current and deleted/expired whois domains.
 
 
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