The Blog Juice Calculator is an amusing diversion for the curious or those who like to obsess over their blog ranking and pageview counts. Given the URL of a weblog, this web application calculates its “juice” (that's street slang for “credibility”, “respect” or “influence” for our non-North American readers) on a scale of 0 to 10. The juice score is based on these factors:
| Factor | Notes |
|---|---|
| Bloglines | Approximate number of people on Bloglines subscribed to the given blog. Accounts for 40% of the juice score. |
| Alexa | The Alexa rank for the given blog. Accounts for 15% of the juice score. |
| Technorati | The Technorati rank for the given blog. Accounts for 30% of the juice score. |
| Inbound links | The number of links pointing to the given blog, as reported by Technorati. Accounts for 15% of the juice score. |
As points of comparison, here are the juice ratings for a few well-known blogs:
- Gizmodo: 9.8
- Boing Boing: 9.6
- Daily Kos: 9.2
- Scripting News: 8.8
- GigaOM: 8.5
- Scobleizer: 8.4
- SEOmoz: 7.4
- Gawker: 6.8
- tmz.com: 5.6
In case you were curious, this blog's juice score is currently 0.2. We've got our work cut out for us.