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Stimator is a bit like Website Grader in that it analyzes your website, incoming links etc. and gives you a score.  Where it's different is that instead of being a percentage like Website Grader gives you, Stimator gives you a value in US Dollars.

The number isn't just arbitrary - it's based on how much actual money real websites have sold for and how your website compares to those sites.  For example Stimator estimates that google.com is worth about $940 million.

As of today, Stimator thinks my website is worth $747, which isn't a huge amount but at least it's more than I've spent on the website over the years.  They provide a bit of html to include in your site to show off your estimated worth (similar to Website Grader), but it didn't work when I tried to include it in this post.

I originallydiscoeverd Stimator via someone's tweet, but I don't remember who it was from.  When I later decided to revisit Stimator and couldn't remember its name I found a lot of other website valuation web apps out there, but Stimator seemed to be the best.  They seem to have put a lot of thought into it, especially the concept of linking the valuations to the financial markets.

I don't think any of this should be taken too seriously, but it's a fun thing to run ever so often to see whether your website is getting better or worse.

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