Best of the Mac Web Addendum

Dan Knight - 2002.03.21

The third Best of the Mac Web (BotMW) survey, an opinion poll covering a good segment of the independent Mac Web, is done. Voting took place over a two week period, and approximately 4,000 individuals shared their opinion of 50 of the best known independent Mac-related sites on the Web - including one of the newest.

Google Links

We visited Google and searched for links to each site. Here are the results as reported by Goolgle. We'd found no correlation between the number of links Google reported and popularity or a site's score.

MacCentral, 20,400 VersionTracker, 17,700 Macworld, 11,100 MacUpdate, 6,890 MacFixIt, 5,470 MacNN, 5,260 MacAddict, 5,000 Mac Observer, 4,780 MacSlash, 4,650 Applelinks, 4,580 Inside Mac Games, 3,990 MacSurfer, 3,660 MacOS Rumors, 3,370 Low End Mac, 3,260 TidBITS, 3,170 MacOpinion, 3,160 ATPM, 3,130 O'Grady's PowerPage, 3,110 Accelerate Your Mac, 3,030 Mac Desktops, 2,660 osOpinion, 2,650 MacGamer, 2,480 MacSpeedZone, 2,400 MacWindows, 2,380 Mac Resource Page, 2,200

Macs Only!, 2,190 Mac Night Owl, 1,930 PowerBook Central, 1,800 Mac Minute, 1,710 ResExcellence, 1,690 Mac OS X Hints, 1,510 Pure Mac, 1,340 Right On Mac, 1,330 Emulation.net, 1,250 Think Secret, 1,210 MacEdition, 1,200 Insanely Great Mac, 1,140 PowerBook Source, 1,040 MacUser UK, 1,101 PowerBook Zone, 996 DealMac, 952 As the Apple Turns, 926 Macworld UK, 908 The Mac Show, 840 Mac Evangelist, 444 Bare Feats, 434 Mac Rumors, 378 Railhead Design, 314 Your Mac Life, 60 MacInTouch, 42

Weighted Rating

Begun with the second BotMW survey we crated a weighted rating that looks at both how well known a site is and how well respected it is. The score is generated by multiplying the square root of the number of responses by the score.

VersionTracker As the Apple Turns MacFixIt MacCentral MacInTouch MacNN Accelerate Your Mac TidBITS MacAddict Low End Mac MacOS Rumors Mac OS X Hints DealMac Mac Minute Macworld MacSurfer ResExcellence Think Secret MacSlash Mac Observer Inside Mac Games Mac Desktops Applelinks Mac Rumors Emulation.net

MacUser UK O'Grady's PowerPage Bare Feats Railhead Design osOpinion MacGamer Macworld UK Mac Resource Page Insanely Great Mac ATPM Mac Evangelist MacWindows PowerBook Central MacSpeedZone Mac Night Owl MacEdition PowerBook Zone Your Mac Life MacOpinion MacUpdate PowerBook Source The Mac Show Macs Only! Pure Mac Right On Mac

Raw Data

These are the raw numbers. Feel free to thrown them into your favorite spreadsheet and do your own analysis.

Your Mac Life                   19   32  126  125  166   468
VersionTracker                  12   20   95  660 2176  2963
TidBITS                         11   32  171  400 1049  1663
Think Secret                    56  171  504  699  228  1658
Right On Mac                    12   38  186  122   15   373
ResExcellence                    9   21  151  521  483  1185
Railhead Design                 12   31  174  217  250   684
Pure Mac                        14   38  149  123   54   378
PowerPage                       33   91  295  382  124   925
PowerBook Zone                  12   46  222  226   60   566
PowerBook Source                15   54  207  134   36   446
PowerBook Central               13   41  260  262   73   649
osOpinion                       16   64  238  277  141   736
Macworld UK                     15   61  202  312  107   697
Macworld                        43  204  717  808  235  2007
MacWindows                      16   33  145  282  109   585
MacUser UK                      14   52  205  325  204   800
MacUpdate                        9   25  169  174   88   465
MacSurfer                       12   36  125  275  730  1178
MacSpeedZone                    11   39  242  289   60   641
MacsOnly!                       11   42  186  111   51   401
MacSlash                        12   80  326  570  235  1223
MacShow                         74   96  177  139   49   535
MacRumors                       61  169  422  469  139  1260
MacResource Page                10   32  252  287   95   676
MacOS X Hints                    8   38  226  556  652  1480
MacOS Rumors                   186  431  866  948  249  2680
MacOpinion                      20   57  274  193   42   586
MacObserver                     24   76  355  500  247  1202
MacNN                           24   98  469 1065  675  2331
MacNight Owl                    27   74  273  229   84   687
MacMinute                       11   31  218  494  652  1406
MacInTouch                      15   51  328  733 1011  2138
MacGamer                        15   44  201  318  119   697
MacFixIt                        95  102  262 1024 1200  2683
MacEvangelist                   32   82  229  185  158   686
MacEdition                      16   62  253  227   84   642
MacDesktops                     27   73  301  472  246  1119
MacCentral                      38  159  639 1211  651  2698
MacAddict                       37  288  863  978  286  2452
Low End Mac                     13   38  278  843  560  1732
Inside Mac Games                10   40  225  529  253  1057
Insanely Great Mac               9   60  346  301   47   763
Emulation.net                   10   43  192  343  214   802
DealMac                         14   55  301  601  587  1558
Bare Feats                      12   45  241  348  144   790
ATPM                            13   50  299  289   66   717
As the Apple Turns              10   64  240  406 2008  2728
Applelinks                      17   82  415  440  173  1127
Accelerate Your Mac              9   23  287  882  717  1918

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