Ok blame me for having too much time on my hand.
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How would you feel if you can make cash out of the browser game we all love and hate, neopets? Well, in 2005 Viacom brought over neopets for a whopping 160 million bucks! That's more cash than any of us will see in our lifetimes through. So it got me wondering - how much exactly is the net worth of the other websites dedicated to neopets, compared to our little community of abers? Let's find out!
First up, we'll be relying on some key factors which determines the worth of a firm.
Content
Traffic worth
Daily work
Pagerank
Ways to monetize
The first 3 are pretty obvious to find out, but I'll say that the last 2, pagerank and ways are a little more complicated. Basically pagerank is the importance of a website in the whole list of websites in the whole wide world. It shows how high up the pecking order you are in the world. On the other hand, ways to monetize refers to the conversion of traffic worth into direct value, via the use of adverts such as CPM and PPC ads. See those irritating ads wherever you go into a webpage? That's the ad which pays the webby. This is just an oversimplified version of the definition so please take note.
For our comparisons, I'll be using Jellyneo, The Daily Neopets, SunnyNeo (the official certified ones) vs us, Neocodex. I can only find out the number of daily traffic (since that's the only data I can find!)
Traffic rank (according to Alexa)
1. Jellyneo - 47724 (171 link-in sites)
2. Daily neopets - 48728 (136 link-in sites)
3. SunnyNeo - 99071 (137 link-in sites)
4. Neocodex - 316756 (80 link-in sites)
So from the stats, we can see that Jellyneo is largely leading the pack, with a higher rank than the other 3. This is supported by the greater link-in sites which direct traffic into it as well. Surprising, despite having its own battlepedia website, it did not translate directly into more traffic for the Daily Neopets. Sadly, we are last in the pack by...4 times. Wow.
In the reviews, someone said something about 'viruses and penis enlargement ads' if you use neocodex. That might somehow explain our low traffic.
So after seeing this, I guess we're all wondering whether Neocodex is indeed last in the net worth of all of the sites. For this, I'll be using a few webbies given that results are largely varying with huge extremes. If we can spot a trend in all of this, we might be able to determine what makes each of this webbies tick.
*drum-roll~~~*
According to http://www.websiteoutlook.com
According to http://www.cubestat.com/
Although Dailyneopets is leading jellyneo and Sunnyneo, the statistics are still more or less in line with each other. At the same time, it looks as through Neocodex is sadly in the back of things.
However, take into consideration that the 2 calculating websites are only reliant on traffic instead of other aspects! As mentioned previously, although our traffic may be less, it is the content and monetizing means which affects the value as well. Neocodex relies on its monthly subscription of 5 bucks per advanced membership and ads content for Neocodex bucks, which is not considered into the calculation. All in all, this probably suggests that the overall net worth isn't as bad as it seems and although we may not be as high as the others, it may not be too far behind as well.
That wraps it up. I hope this will be an eyeopener to the worth of websites and beyond and remember, all of these statistics are meant for fun and not meant to antagonize any parties. Feel free to fire away!
Edited by ceterisparibus, 26 April 2013 - 12:21 AM.
