Ever wonder how much your online business is worth?
There’s a plethora of websites purporting to use some type of scientific algorithm to determine a website’s value.

We’ve compared a few of these sites to varied results.
1.Website Value Calculator
I asked how much Yahoo was worth, and the answer was 1.39 billion USD. Evidently, Wall Street hasn’t taken notice of this service yet, since Yahoo’s market cap as of June 10 is $22.58 Billion USD. This website has a clean web 2.0 feel and was very quick with the results. One can assume that they calculate frequently and cache the results for later retrieval.

2.Your Website Value
Yahoo is worth $3,845,952,866, getting closer, but still not there yet. This website is focused on trying to rent your website space. They also offer optimizing tools, detailed reports, etc… Their analysis tool runs thru a 12 step process before displaying the results which takes about 30 seconds.

3.Website Outlook
Yahoo = 1.2 Billion. They also have a login screen for registered users to get more information. They also provide basic traffic data, which looks as though it’s been gathered from multiple primary sources.

4. $stimator
This site claims “The engine deliveries the most accurate economical value that a website could worth by collecting important data”. Their 14 step analysis process has a neat rolling counter that adds up the site value until it reaches the sum total at the end of the analysis. After about 1 minute, Yahoo was calculated to $222 Million, which was the lowest of the sites we’ve tested. You can then click on buttons for additional reports. Although the look is slick, they can use a good spell-checker as English is probably not their native tongue.

Other websites like Value My Web require you to enter your email to get website results. On their homepage, they show Yahoo with a value of $18.5 Billion (the closest to market cap yet). Cube Stat puts Yahoo at $1.1 Billion.
Website Valued gingerly stated that Yahoo was “A Top Site”, and that “a valuation will underestimate the value of the website based purely on visitor and advertising revenue.”

Results
Our testing showed that these sites can be useful as a comparitive barometer of one site’s value vs. another site. They also include a Firefox extension for you to retrieve websitevalue results as you surf the net.

Have you tried this service?
Are there other websites that also track a website’s value? Please let us know if you have had experience with similar tools and if the one reviewed here worked for you.

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