Here’s something to chew on, regarding web standards, and why web designers worth their salt should learn it, use it, and love it.
Good Blimey is a simple website, it really doesn’t get much traffic at all. On average, around 200 hits a day. Yet it has a Google PageRank of 6 out of 10.
3DGPU is a more complex website, and I coded it in standards compliance with heavy use of CSS. On average, it gets 160,000 hits a day. 3DGPU has a PageRank of 5 out of 10.
NVNews, which is a site similar to 3DGPU, uses the old school method of coding, tables, HTML 4, not very standards compliant. Rudimentary use of CSS. I know they get more traffic than 3DGPU, according to Alexa’s information. Yet they have a PageRank of 4 out of 10.
Consensus? While GB isn’t very popular, Google loves the site more than two more popular sites, because of web standards. Interesting, yes?
How or where do you get the Pagerank? Looked on Google and could not find it…
Joe McArthur on Dec 22nd, 2004
If you’re using IE, grab the toolbar at http://toolbar.google.com/
If you’re using Firefox, grab the Google PageRank extension.
Matt Burris on Dec 22nd, 2004