Top 20 Blogs, Ranked By Performancing Metrics

Submitted by Chris Garrett on June 23, 2006 - 10:37am in
Performancing Metrics

Would you like to know how your blog compares against the others? A while ago markjoyner asked if we could create a chart showing the top blogs, little did he know we were working on just that (and more).

While we are not quite ready to make a full announcement, as it is Friday I thought it would be fun to just show the top 20. These entries are not filtered in any way apart from to only include those with public stats allowed, and our ranking for this list is purely based on traffic, look to the next announcement for our plans going forward. More news on this next week ...

So here you are, the top 20 blogs ranked by Performancing Metrics. Enjoy!

So where do you rank? As mentioned above, this is just a teaser to wet your appetite, more news will be forthcoming soon. One thing you can do in the meantime is make your stats public, without enabling public stats we will not be able to show your ranking. For example, Performancing is really ranked number 41 but a lot of blogs above us keep their stats private. If you want to see your rank switch on public stats before next week!

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Wow, #7

Submitted by Stanley Westerveld on June 23, 2006 - 11:39am.

Wow, my site ranks #7! This is incredible, especialy since the concept of Performancing was one of the main inspirators for how I built my site. Thanks for the inspiration and a great tool! I'm looking forward to see the charts.

WOW!

Submitted by POPOEVER on June 23, 2006 - 12:44pm.

Never thought about that, I'm @ 19, Thanks for the groups behind Performancing

surprised

Submitted by Abhinav Kaiser on June 23, 2006 - 1:40pm.

I am surprised that my website is not in your top twenty despite rated higher in alexa compared to most websites that you have listed...

Actually, the REAL top 20 is

Submitted by Administrator on June 23, 2006 - 1:53pm.

Actually, the REAL top 20 is very diff. Patrick and I are thinking it's ok to show the real top20 as we're not showing anyones actual traffic, just the fact that they are ranked.

thoughts?

It should be OK

Submitted by DAAdmin on June 23, 2006 - 2:05pm.

If Google can display a site's pagerank without permission, you can surely do it. Don't know of anyone who would say "no-thanks" for the publicity.

Abhinav, expect a wide

Submitted by Chris Garrett on June 23, 2006 - 2:28pm.

Abhinav, expect a wide difference between our results and Alexas, Alexa is a proxy for traffic figures rather than an accurate record, so many things can influence an Alexa result for good and bad.

I would love to show the actual top 20 but I think we need to sample peoples opinions on this so please do speak up if you have thoughts on the issue!

Thoughts ...

Submitted by ILoveJackDaniels on June 23, 2006 - 2:48pm.

My thoughts are ... am I in the top 20? :)

I don't think you'd have a real problem naming the top 20, as long as you gave no details. You're just comparing a few sites' traffic, not giving away the secrets to their success.

That said, it might be worth a quick email just to alert people to it. That way, if they don't want themselves on a list, they can just ask to be removed ...

Dave

Differences?

Submitted by Stanley Westerveld on June 23, 2006 - 2:58pm.

What are the differences between this top 20 and "the real" top 20, besides the fact that this top 20 only contains sites with public stats? I am a bit confused about the different definitions people seem to have for ranking/real ranking/traffic and the like.