Compare scientific websites with a new Google Trends layer!
Posted by attilachordash on June 21, 2008
I always had the feeling that the Natureplex (the web division of the Nature Publishing Group headed by Timo Hannay) is ahead of most scientific journal publishing conglomerate’s similar departments. Now with the help of a new Google Trends layer that compares websites in terms of traffic this impression was confirmed again without strict numbers. I hope that more and more scientific journals gain incentives finally to experiment with new web technologies. Also a quick look to the Regions comparison on the bottom left helps you give up the history based conclusion that Science is the number 1 on the web in the US compared to Nature while Nature is so UK and Europe centric.
“Today, we add a new layer to Trends with Google Trends for Websites, a fun tool that gives you a view of how popular your favorite websites are, including your own! It also compares and ranks site visitation across geographies, and related websites and searches”
Source: Official Google Webmaster Central Blog via Webmonkey
The same comparison with Alexa:
Maxine said
Thanks, Attila. Everyone stops reading for Christmas, I see! And I wonder what Cell published in Sept 07 to cause that spike?
Fascinating, thanks for creating this.