The Blog Juice Calculator is an amusing diversion for the curious or those who like to obsess over their blog ranking and pageview counts. Given the URL of a weblog, this web application calculates its "juice" (that's street slang for "credibility", "respect" or "influence" for our non-North American readers) on a scale of 0 to 10. The juice score is based on these factors:
Factor | Notes |
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Bloglines | Approximate number of people on Bloglines subscribed to the given blog. Accounts for 40% of the juice score. |
Alexa | The Alexa rank for the given blog. Accounts for 15% of the juice score. |
Technorati | The Technorati rank for the given blog. Accounts for 30% of the juice score. |
Inbound links | The number of links pointing to the given blog, as reported by Technorati. Accounts for 15% of the juice score. |
As points of comparison, here are the juice ratings for a few well-known blogs:
- Gizmodo: 9.8
- Boing Boing: 9.6
- Daily Kos: 9.2
- Scripting News: 8.8
- GigaOM: 8.5
- Scobleizer: 8.4
- SEOmoz: 7.4
- Gawker: 6.8
- tmz.com: 5.6
In case you were wondering, this blog has a juice rating of 2.2, which isn't bad for the first month. The Global Nerdy blog, which I share with my buddy George, has a rating of 0.2, which means that I'm not going to retire on my AdSense revenues just yet. This blog's predecessor, The Farm, has a 5.1 rating, and my personal blog, The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century, has a 6.8 rating, thanks to its longevity (it's been around since November 2001) and some BoingBoing link love.