What's your website worth? (And why librarians want to know)

Odd question I know, since there are several snap answers - 'What anyone will pay for it', 'Don't care, I'm not selling' and so on. However, some people do like to know this stuff, so there needs to be a way of checking it - even if only vaguely. There are sites that will provide some sort of rough estimate, and it's at this point librarians might want to get interested, if they have to evaluate a site or track down information on it, or see if it's trustworthy. For example, Smart PageRank will check to see how long a site has been running, how many links there are to it, the pagerank and so on. All stuff that is useful to know when evaluating sites. That checker seems to think my site is worth about $1,500.

DNScoop checks with Alexa for the number of visitors to a site, a link to the Internet Archive and inbound links. This resource has decided my site is worth about $23,300.

Cubestat is another site that you might want to use to check out a site.It takes longer to run than the other two and that might be because it broke and stopped working, so alas! I have no idea what my site may be figuratively worth, not that I particularly care. However, when it comes to checking and evaluating sites, it may pay you to think laterally and try out of a few of this type of resource.

Comments

[Ruth]

Interesting. They reckon the Oxford University website is worth around $6.5 million!

[Elspeth Scott]

Whereas we librarians know your site is priceless!

[Dave Pattern]

Lol -- the University of Huddersfield is only worth $500 according to SmartPageRank :-D