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
