Finding an exact PR of your site

[pawel]

Apart from the PageRank bar length in Google toolbar, is there a way to find exact PR of your site?
thanks

[takagi]

Not exactly, but sometimes you can get a better indication.

If the homepage is in Google Directory, you can see a green bar next to the title (if the page is ordered on PageRank). This can help you to find out if you have a high PR5 or a low PR5. You can read more about it in The Handy Dandy Google PageRank Figurin' Guide V2.0 - See all 19 different possible PRs with examples [webmasterworld.com] and DMOZ and Google [webmasterworld.com].

[pawel]

Thanks,
it was very useful.
However, I read you could still find the exact PR of a site mousing over the PR bar in GG toolbar (says it should appear in a hintbox)- doesn't work in my Toolbar, I guess have to get a newer version.
Pawel

[Mohamed_E]

> I read you could still find the exact PR of a site mousing over the PR bar in GG toolbar ...

Few of us would refer to that number as "exact", hence takagi's response.

There is a widespread belief in this community that the PR that the toolbar shows is derived from the real internal PR that the ranking algorithms use by a logarithmic transformation. The result is then rounded or truncated to an integer that is displayed on the toolbar.

There is a lot of speculation as to what base of logarithm is used, see a Google site search [google.com] for some discussions. Let us assume a base of 6, and truncation (rather than rounding) of the results.

If the toolbar shows you a PR of 5 it may represent an toolbar PR anywhere between 5.0 and 5.99999. The latter represents an internal PR six times as great as the former.

Hence the attempt to get a slightly closer approximation to the internal PR using the Google directory as takagi suggested.

<added>To answer your immediate question: Yes, get a newer version of the toolbar</added>