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Want to Know Everything About a Website? Try Quarkbase.
New web apps often make a lot of claims that just don't hold up under testing. When I decided to put Quarkbase.com through the paces, I fully expected to be underwhelmed. After all, their motto is "Everything About A Website."
Holy information overload Batman, this one really surprised me.
Pick a domain and hit search, then give Quarkbase a chance to dig up its research. They say to wait about 30 seconds, though my successful searches worked more quickly. I did get a few failure notices because of high traffic, but I understand why. Quarkbase finds so much information about your website that it's mindblowing.
What does it find? The domain owner, registrar, creation date, primary language, similar sites (*yawn* so far), traffic rank, blog rank, countries in which it's popular, description and "official" contact info, people involved, incoming links, and more. Unlike the "similar pages" Google search returns, the Quarkbase suggestions were pretty much right on the money.
But wait, there's more. It'll track down numbers on Digg, Stumbleupon, Twitter, Technorati, Reddit, Delicious, and Yahoo Answers. Quarkbase even knows how many times the site have made Digg's front page. It also generates a list of the most popular recent page and five popular pages of all time based on these stats.
Quarkbase is an incredibly informative tool and undeniably useful for anyone working the web.
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Holy information overload Batman, this one really surprised me.
Pick a domain and hit search, then give Quarkbase a chance to dig up its research. They say to wait about 30 seconds, though my successful searches worked more quickly. I did get a few failure notices because of high traffic, but I understand why. Quarkbase finds so much information about your website that it's mindblowing.
What does it find? The domain owner, registrar, creation date, primary language, similar sites (*yawn* so far), traffic rank, blog rank, countries in which it's popular, description and "official" contact info, people involved, incoming links, and more. Unlike the "similar pages" Google search returns, the Quarkbase suggestions were pretty much right on the money.
But wait, there's more. It'll track down numbers on Digg, Stumbleupon, Twitter, Technorati, Reddit, Delicious, and Yahoo Answers. Quarkbase even knows how many times the site have made Digg's front page. It also generates a list of the most popular recent page and five popular pages of all time based on these stats.
Quarkbase is an incredibly informative tool and undeniably useful for anyone working the web.
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Comments
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Subscribe to commentsMarcCAug 28th 2008 12:17PM
Sad, I tried a bunch of know sites, no problems, but then a few that have been online for years with low traffic patterns but still some constant visits and you get:Our system is under heavy traffic and we have stumbled upon this website for the first time. Please try again later. It has nothing to do with heavy traffic but the fact that it doesn't have data on smaller sites.
RemyAug 28th 2008 2:07PM
Hi,
This is Remy from Quarkbase...
MarcC,
When we say stumbled for the first time, it means we are gathering information for that site for the first time from scratch. This will be the behavior for each site.
Regarding, system overload : we are really under heavy traffic, just now we have added extra machines but still no respite.
Conda,
For language, we will definitely look into it. FYI, we use Google Lang API.
... back to monitoring traffic.
medikalAug 28th 2008 1:15PM
good...
medikal
CondaAug 28th 2008 1:15PM
doesnt have a lot of information on smaller sites. whats more amusing is it thinks one of my own websites is in Spanish, I'll have to check that to see what's up
Jeremy DixonAug 28th 2008 3:02PM
Great find...very useful
kingkool68Aug 28th 2008 3:20PM
Wow, stats for my site came up pretty zippy! http://www.quarkbase.com/show/russellheimlich.com
AA FuAug 28th 2008 6:17PM
Hope Quark, the company doesn't ask Quarkbase to to change the name-a very nice and fast loading website info site.
whiskeyAug 28th 2008 9:05PM
Its got mine... and it doesn't display my personal data... it even compares me with other sites that are way much cooler than mine... THANKS!
whiskeyAug 28th 2008 9:05PM
now... why did it took my first post's image as a logo puzzles me
MikeAug 28th 2008 10:58PM
This really isn't very impressive. All of the information displayed is public and available. They're simply querying various places such as the domain's registrar, crawling the site, etc...
Furthermore, if you can't figure out this information yourself, why on earth would you care about how many dom elements appear on the page? They were clearly scrounging for things to display at that point.
Thumbs down.
Lee MathewsAug 28th 2008 11:00PM
I have a feeling a lot of webmasters would rather not spend the time to aggregate all this information themselves and focus on doing productive things like creating content and promoting their sites.
Do this all manually, Mike, and let me know how much time it takes.
If it's more than 30 seconds, Quarkbase gets my vote.