Wednesday, July 18th, 2007...3:14 pm
Sparky - The New Alexa Toolbar For Firefox
10 years after the first Alexa toolbar hit the Internet, a new Firefox compatible version has been released, named Sparky.
Some of the features include:
- Sparkline - A very small condensed traffic history graph. Gives you a quick view to show whether the site is moving up or down.
- Rank - Shows the traffic rank of the site.
- Reach Indicator - Provides a qualitative view of whether a site’s rank is good or bad.
- Related Links - Provides up to 10 Related links in the browser’s File | Edit | View menu.
- Shortcuts - Clicking on Sparky brings up a menu of other handy shortcuts, including Alexa Detail pages, Cached Pages, Search Pages and more.
If you feel like testing out Sparky you can download it here, but if you are looking for a more useful solution I’d recommend installing the SearchStatus extension. It is a far superior tool.
10 Comments
July 17th, 2007 at 3:56 pm
Thanks for sharing. It looks interesting. The searchstatus extension does seem to be more useful.
July 17th, 2007 at 5:49 pm
Sparky sounds interesting but I’m gonna stay with SearchStatus
July 17th, 2007 at 6:06 pm
PageRank is more important, the SearchStatus extension is more ideal.
July 17th, 2007 at 10:18 pm
I think I’ll stay with SearchStatus. This looks good though.
July 18th, 2007 at 1:15 am
Does SearchStatus add to Alexa views? If for nothing else, I would use Sparky to register views for blogs, if SearchStatus doesn’t.
July 18th, 2007 at 1:28 am
RT I’m pretty sure SearchStatus does add to Alexa views. On their download page they mention that “Alexa queries made do affect Alexa statistics”.
July 19th, 2007 at 12:35 pm
Does anyone here using SearchStatus experience the slowness?
I have many other toolbar add-ons installed on my FireFox. Ever since I installed the SearchStatus, firefox slows down when it loads the page.
Any idea? Thanks!
July 21st, 2007 at 2:11 am
I usually check the PR using the Google Toolbar, I think I’ll use this extension for Alexa stats.
August 25th, 2007 at 11:50 pm
Thanks for the tip off. I kinda like Sparky better. But it’s too early to say since I’ve only find out about it a few days ago.
September 9th, 2007 at 7:13 am
I (heart) Sparky! I just found it myself and could not be happier with it. With all my Firefox extensions, there is hardly any room left to view websites!
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