Variable Markup » Top http://www.variablemarkup.com Retail Software Blog - Improving customer experience through technology Wed, 29 Sep 2010 00:10:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Mashup App for Tracking Top Ecommerce Sites for Design Analysis & Best Practices http://www.variablemarkup.com/2007/12/13/mashup-app-for-tracking-top-ecommerce-sites-for-design-analysis-best-practices/ http://www.variablemarkup.com/2007/12/13/mashup-app-for-tracking-top-ecommerce-sites-for-design-analysis-best-practices/#comments Fri, 14 Dec 2007 03:02:02 +0000 Michael Julson http://www.variablemarkup.com/2007/12/13/mashup-app-for-tracking-top-ecommerce-sites-for-design-analysis-best-practices/ Read the Rest...
]]> I haven’t been writing much over the past couple weeks because I’ve been focused on developing a new mashup app that will track the top 500+ ecommerce sites on the web.    Trying to keep up with what the top companies are doing is always a difficult and time consuming task so I decided to pull information together in one place.   I’ve written a few spiders as well as some mashup code with Compete, ZoomInfo, and Google API’s to build a dossier on each of the best sites. 

Please check out The Top Ecommerce Sites and let me know what you think. 

Currently I’m tracking on each site:

  • Snapshots of the home page
  • Google Page Rank
  • Backlinks from major search engines
  • Traffic via Compete
  • Company data from ZoomInfo
  • Types of technology used and sizes (i.e. html, images, flash, javascript)
  • User submitted comments and reviews
  • 1-5 Star ratings submitted by users
  • References in the Blogosphere
  • Google News


I plan to track in the future:

  • Catalog features of each site (i.e. Reviews, social aspects, single page checkout)
  • Stock & finance information
  • Other traffic sources
  • Open jobs
  • Competitors
  • Snapshots of other pages like product detail for historical reviews

The site, data, and code is still beta, so problems may come up.  If you see any, please send me a note of what you see and I’ll look into fixing it. 

Please contribute to the resource by rating and writing a review for some of the sites.  I’m primarily looking for thoughts on design, SEO, structure and ability of the sites.   If you have a blog or website, the reviews are set to follow, so in exchange for your review, you’ll get get a link back to your site.   Every comment is moderated for spam and foul language prior to it being published. 

If you have any thoughts, ideas on features or api’s that would be useful, or questions you would like to ask, please send me an email (link in the sidebar).

Last, a note of thanks out to Suresh.  I appreciate your help during late nights and weekends helping me put this together.    It’s appreciated.

]]> http://www.variablemarkup.com/2007/12/13/mashup-app-for-tracking-top-ecommerce-sites-for-design-analysis-best-practices/feed/ 0 Stores Magazine – Consumer Top 50 Ecommerce Sites http://www.variablemarkup.com/2007/10/07/stores-magazine-releases-consumer-top-50-ecommerce-sites/ http://www.variablemarkup.com/2007/10/07/stores-magazine-releases-consumer-top-50-ecommerce-sites/#comments Sun, 07 Oct 2007 18:20:06 +0000 Michael Julson http://www.variablemarkup.com/2007/10/07/stores-magazine-releases-consumer-top-50-ecommerce-sites/ Read the Rest...
]]> Update:  Recently we released our Top 500 Ecommerce sites which can be looked at from different angles like pagerank, traffic, backlinks, public companies, etc. 

NRF Stores magazine releases a chart with the top 50 ecommerce sites voted on by consumers.

Top 50 Article   Top 50 Chart

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