Comments on: Top Mobile Sites http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/08/31/top-mobile-sites/ Russell Buckley and Carlo Longino on mobile technology. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:56:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Adam Lee http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/08/31/top-mobile-sites/comment-page-1/#comment-102447 Adam Lee Sun, 20 May 2007 17:51:54 +0000 http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/08/31/top-mobile-sites/#comment-102447 http://www.mobilclub.org/ http://www.mobilclub.org/

]]> By: Carlodanie http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/08/31/top-mobile-sites/comment-page-1/#comment-100140 Carlodanie Mon, 05 Mar 2007 11:05:34 +0000 http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/08/31/top-mobile-sites/#comment-100140 I review a website where you do comparison of mobile phone tariff easy. site name is http://www.bestmobilephonetariff.co.uk/sitemap.asp I review a website where you do comparison of mobile phone tariff easy.
site name is http://www.bestmobilephonetariff.co.uk/sitemap.asp

]]> By: Martin http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/08/31/top-mobile-sites/comment-page-1/#comment-28607 Martin Thu, 07 Sep 2006 12:51:17 +0000 http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/08/31/top-mobile-sites/#comment-28607 I have to make a little ad of my new blog of mobile and music content. :) Let's visit the blog. I have to make a little ad of my new blog of mobile and music content. :) Let’s visit the blog.

]]> By: Dean Kakridas http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/08/31/top-mobile-sites/comment-page-1/#comment-28300 Dean Kakridas Tue, 05 Sep 2006 17:46:27 +0000 http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/08/31/top-mobile-sites/#comment-28300 Good list! But it's missing mini.opera.com :-) Good list!

But it’s missing mini.opera.com :-)

]]> By: Oliver Starr http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/08/31/top-mobile-sites/comment-page-1/#comment-26934 Oliver Starr Fri, 01 Sep 2006 12:47:49 +0000 http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/08/31/top-mobile-sites/#comment-26934 At 54, 501 (http://alexa.org/data/details/traffic_details?url=mobilecrunch.com) MobileCrunch was also missed... and like Mobhappy, MobileCrunch has a large percentage of readers that are using aggregators - not to mention that like TechCrunch, a vast majority of users that don't user readers do use the Firefox browser which is also absent from Alexa ranking which means that the site probably ranks much higher than this number indicates. Thanks, Oliver At 54, 501 (http://alexa.org/data/details/traffic_details?url=mobilecrunch.com) MobileCrunch was also missed… and like Mobhappy, MobileCrunch has a large percentage of readers that are using aggregators – not to mention that like TechCrunch, a vast majority of users that don’t user readers do use the Firefox browser which is also absent from Alexa ranking which means that the site probably ranks much higher than this number indicates.

Thanks,

Oliver

]]> By: Anders Borg http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/08/31/top-mobile-sites/comment-page-1/#comment-26906 Anders Borg Fri, 01 Sep 2006 07:08:44 +0000 http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/08/31/top-mobile-sites/#comment-26906 Congratulations to the success of AdMob. There's no search criteria that works (as far as I can tell), so I think the only way to get a similar list for sites actually accessed from mobiles is to aggregate the top sites from services like AdMob, where it's possible to see which user agents are actually used. Some of the really top ones shouldn't be a surprise though, but after that it's foggy. Congratulations to the success of AdMob.

There’s no search criteria that works (as far as I can tell), so I think the only way to get a similar list for sites actually accessed from mobiles is to aggregate the top sites from services like AdMob, where it’s possible to see which user agents are actually used.

Some of the really top ones shouldn’t be a surprise though, but after that it’s foggy.

]]> By: Paul Shaw http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/08/31/top-mobile-sites/comment-page-1/#comment-26895 Paul Shaw Fri, 01 Sep 2006 04:47:57 +0000 http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/08/31/top-mobile-sites/#comment-26895 Russell, We agree that Alexa is skewed since the user base is predominantly USA centric. I do not see our portal in the list although we should sit around 7/8th (not a concern to us - we are still in stealth mode). What I think would be useful in relation to mobile sites for the future is to create something like Google analytics for mobile. The information that needs to be known to establish the 'top' levels in ranking are page views per day (mobile and web), average page views per visit (both mobile and web), number of registered customers, active customers, active by week/month etc, the number of uploads and downloads (if the mobile site is selling products, hosting UGC or is a social network it does not matter), the number of P2P transactions (one mobile to another), the number of IM and SMS transactions and so forth............................ Obviously giving this level of detail into a ranking list exposes a company to its competitors but what if we could volunteer this information into a closed network/industry ranking site and that in turn would publish to consumers some of the ranking lists. This would cut down on the number of companies issuing 'hot air' PR about being 'the number one mobile site in the world' and also form a level field for any company in the mobile arena to be able to understand their position and how to increase their position based on the key criteria. I assume that Google and others will increase the mechanisms for ranking within the mobile arena but I wonder if we could get companies from within the industry to contribute to something open source in this area to help build this data. My only doubt is the mobile operators participation, allowing for transactions from their network to be counted. They are the worst culprits for misinformation - especially total number of customers against active customers etc. Russell,

We agree that Alexa is skewed since the user base is predominantly USA centric. I do not see our portal in the list although we should sit around 7/8th (not a concern to us – we are still in stealth mode).

What I think would be useful in relation to mobile sites for the future is to create something like Google analytics for mobile. The information that needs to be known to establish the ‘top’ levels in ranking are page views per day (mobile and web), average page views per visit (both mobile and web), number of registered customers, active customers, active by week/month etc, the number of uploads and downloads (if the mobile site is selling products, hosting UGC or is a social network it does not matter), the number of P2P transactions (one mobile to another), the number of IM and SMS transactions and so forth……………………….

Obviously giving this level of detail into a ranking list exposes a company to its competitors but what if we could volunteer this information into a closed network/industry ranking site and that in turn would publish to consumers some of the ranking lists. This would cut down on the number of companies issuing ‘hot air’ PR about being ‘the number one mobile site in the world’ and also form a level field for any company in the mobile arena to be able to understand their position and how to increase their position based on the key criteria.

I assume that Google and others will increase the mechanisms for ranking within the mobile arena but I wonder if we could get companies from within the industry to contribute to something open source in this area to help build this data.

My only doubt is the mobile operators participation, allowing for transactions from their network to be counted. They are the worst culprits for misinformation – especially total number of customers against active customers etc.

]]> By: mad4mobilephones http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/08/31/top-mobile-sites/comment-page-1/#comment-26867 mad4mobilephones Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:43:51 +0000 http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/08/31/top-mobile-sites/#comment-26867 Hi guys, I added another few sites to the list incuding yours Scott. We had left out ringtone sites this time and concentrated on sites offering handsets for sale, industry news and the major networks. Also just added a graph of the top five. Patrick Hi guys,
I added another few sites to the list incuding yours Scott. We had left out ringtone sites this time and concentrated on sites offering handsets for sale, industry news and the major networks.

Also just added a graph of the top five.

Patrick

]]> By: Scott Rafer http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/08/31/top-mobile-sites/comment-page-1/#comment-26864 Scott Rafer Thu, 31 Aug 2006 21:56:13 +0000 http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/08/31/top-mobile-sites/#comment-26864 Hi Russell, there's at least a few missing from the 40 crowd. winksite.com 118,129 tagtag.com 31,799 dodgeball.com 48,319 For mobile pages, i can only speak for winksite but we're comfortably over a million a day. That roughly translates to Alexa top 6k or 7k on the fixed web, depending on one's reach. Hi Russell, there’s at least a few missing from the 40 crowd.
winksite.com 118,129
tagtag.com 31,799
dodgeball.com 48,319

For mobile pages, i can only speak for winksite but we’re comfortably over a million a day. That roughly translates to Alexa top 6k or 7k on the fixed web, depending on one’s reach.

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