Want to Know Everything About a Website? Try Quarkbase.

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Want to Know Everything About a Website? Try Quarkbase.

by Lee Mathews Aug 28th 2008

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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Tags: domain, information, statistics, web

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

MarcC said 12:17PM on 8-28-2008

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.

Remy said 2:07PM on 8-28-2008

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.

medikal said 1:15PM on 8-28-2008

good...

medikal

Conda said 1:15PM on 8-28-2008

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 Dixon said 3:02PM on 8-28-2008

Great find...very useful

kingkool68 said 3:20PM on 8-28-2008

Wow, stats for my site came up pretty zippy! http://www.quarkbase.com/show/russellheimlich.com

AA Fu said 6:17PM on 8-28-2008

Hope Quark, the company doesn't ask Quarkbase to to change the name-a very nice and fast loading website info site.

whiskey said 9:05PM on 8-28-2008

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!

whiskey said 9:05PM on 8-28-2008

now... why did it took my first post's image as a logo puzzles me

Mike said 10:58PM on 8-28-2008

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 Mathews said 11:00PM on 8-28-2008

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.

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