PR Statistics

What percentage of sites have Pr0, 2,3, 4 etc %

[peter andreas]

Hi,
Does any one know the percenatges of sites with Pr0 to 10? To attract new advertisers I am thinking of saying our site is Prx which means that it is in the top X% of sites on the web. I know PR isn't the whole story but at least its something which gives a bit of credibility.

On a seperate unrelated issue I haven't been able to get in webmaster world for several days ie get don't have permissions etc-This happened before.

[Spica]

I think that your first question is actually very difficult, and I am certainly not good enough at math and statistics to even attempt an educated guess. I suppose that the correct answer would require knowledge of the actual logarithmic scale used in PR calculation, which, from what I understand, is not available. Besides that, I can only make the following comments:

Sites don't have PR, pages do. Let's assume that when you talk about the PR of a site, you actually mean the PR of the index page. For most sites, the index page is the one with the highest PR. How much higher in PR are index pages (on average) as compared to all other pages? To address that question, one would have to know what is the average number of pages per site. I don't know that number. Maybe someone else has an idea?

[peter andreas]

Thanks for the reply. Our index and several of the main pages have the same pr.

For the average 'punter' what does the pr bar show then? Is Pr 9 an exceptional site , Pr 4 Ok, Pr5 Good etc etc. Sorry sounds a silly question but I thoiught 4 was considered good as Google uses these sites to count for backlinks.

[elmarpanzenberger]

Hy,
instead of using Google PR how about using some of the tools offered by alexa . com?
They actually rank sites, not pages, and offer quite some gadgets to webmasters.

[CalArch90]

The problem with Alexa is that it requires people to have the Alexa bar installed to gather statistics. The percentage of web users who have the toolbar is too small to really give accurate results.

The idea is good, but the method of collecting data is not accurate enough. It is also possible for webmasters to manipulate results to some extent.

It can be used as a very general guide, but I still think Google's pagerank system, while not perfect, is a better indicator.

[peter andreas]

Many Thanks for the answers.