Dan Knight - 2002.10.24
The fourth Best of the Mac Web (BotMW) survey, an opinion poll covering 100 independent Mac websites, is finished. Voting took place over a nine day period, and approximately 3,000 individuals shared their opinion of the best known Mac-related sites.
Begun with the second BotMW survey we crated a weighted rating that looks at both how well known a site is and how well respected it is. The score is generated by multiplying the square root of the number of responses by the score.
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These are the raw numbers. Feel free to thrown them into your favorite spreadsheet and do your own analysis.
3 Macs and a Printer 13 7 50 114 60 244 About This Particular Macintosh 11 18 155 203 57 444 Accelerate Your Mac 9 13 151 636 594 1403 AllOSX.com 11 7 57 92 21 188 apple.slashdot.org 11 43 214 571 232 1071 AppleAudio 14 17 46 50 37 164 AppleHistory 10 11 76 250 161 508 Applelinks 16 55 194 251 109 625 Applelust 15 35 126 108 34 318 AppleMuseum 7 12 47 107 63 236 AppleQuicklinks 10 14 38 25 13 100 AppleTechs 9 14 23 22 10 78 As the Apple Turns 23 80 171 390 1327 1991 Bare Feats 22 35 116 332 206 711 Chez Mark 12 10 40 67 65 194 Cool Mac 11 14 36 35 13 109 Crazy Apple Rumors 22 63 111 238 693 1127 Creative Mac 9 9 44 92 45 199 DealMac 9 25 116 365 482 997 Deals on the Web 10 12 54 132 133 341 dotmac.info 11 11 34 47 19 122 Emulation.net 9 15 61 193 125 403 EveryMac 9 15 43 141 130 338 Family-Mac 11 12 28 6 5 62 IconFactory 9 15 92 458 439 1013 iGeek 14 13 47 112 46 232 iMac NewsPage 11 7 23 11 4 56 Insanely Great Mac 13 15 186 235 72 521 Inside Mac Games 9 6 119 367 236 737 Jag's House 15 7 25 49 32 128 Joy of Tech 11 18 93 376 605 1103 Low End Mac 16 21 135 545 447 1164 Mac 512k 10 8 23 32 23 96 MacAddict 37 205 507 607 196 1552 MacCentral 26 72 399 755 509 1761 MacCritic 11 16 30 23 12 92 MacDailyNews 11 7 34 42 22 116 MacDesktops 9 22 109 34 224 398 MacDirectory 12 33 71 67 25 208 MacEdition 12 20 91 120 71 314 MacEvangelist 44 59 65 50 22 240 MacFixIt 71 99 278 621 533 1602 MacGamer 12 12 88 181 103 396 macHome 15 20 88 109 31 263 Macinstein 19 47 65 67 14 212 MacInTouch 9 34 170 464 733 1410 MacMerc 10 10 49 51 36 156 MacMind 7 7 40 28 16 98 MacMinute 12 12 104 345 566 1039 MacMonkies 15 20 40 55 31 161 MacNET v2 16 21 49 50 15 151 MacNetJournal 10 11 40 57 31 149 MacNight Owl 23 32 123 197 82 457 MacNN 14 57 289 754 498 1612 MacObserver 11 26 177 409 266 889 MacOpinion 13 30 126 151 26 346 MacOrchard 8 11 49 76 39 183 MacOSPlanet 12 17 52 43 8 132 MacOSRumors 105 219 447 634 300 1705 MacOSX.com 12 18 97 218 74 419 MacOSXHints 5 10 68 360 626 1069 MacOSZone 11 10 47 49 24 141 MacResource Page 9 21 95 115 38 278 MacReviewZone 9 11 52 85 33 190 MacRumors 28 72 224 395 261 980 MacSlash 15 31 177 428 201 852 MacsOnly! 7 13 54 51 44 169 MacSpeedZone 9 16 76 148 40 289 MacSurfer 9 14 42 143 518 726 MacTeens 16 22 45 56 47 186 MacUnlimited.com 10 7 15 12 3 47 MacUpdate 9 7 49 129 156 350 MacUser UK 14 15 82 164 59 334 MacVillage 11 9 21 12 4 57 MacWindows 12 5 57 166 94 334 Macworld 28 140 645 1064 326 2203 Macworld UK 16 28 193 370 130 737 MyAppleMenu 12 11 60 52 20 155 MyMac 11 14 76 69 15 185 O'Grady's PowerPage 52 78 270 537 198 1135 osOpinion 13 46 117 218 66 460 OSXFAQ 14 21 103 444 746 1328 pickle's Low-end Mac FAQ 13 12 40 55 45 165 PowerBook Central 12 35 128 238 46 459 PowerBook Source 13 33 98 115 13 272 PowerBook Zone 14 34 123 156 32 359 Railhead Design 14 23 91 214 229 571 ramSeeker 11 8 76 177 169 441 RandomMaccess 13 11 47 37 49 157 ResExcellence 9 8 107 421 390 935 Should Our Schools Have Macs? 14 13 39 70 65 201 SpyMac 128 170 285 363 207 1153 Stepwise 10 11 78 177 127 403 System6Heaven 16 14 39 64 28 161 Think Secret 37 61 317 650 387 1452 TidBITS 15 43 84 327 1212 1681 VersionTracker 32 33 134 723 1568 2490 WhytheMacissogreat.com 14 19 42 46 20 141 Working Mac 21 41 65 73 38 238 Your Mac Life 16 39 88 182 171 496
For analysis of the results, see Best of the Mac Web Survey Results, October 2002.