Early in 2008, Suite101 launched a German-language version of its leading online magazine from Deutschland.
The relatively new German Suite101.de site scores higher than 95% of the hundreds of thousands of websites that HubSpot's Website Grader has previously evaluated,
Sure that's less than Vancouver-based Suite101.com's score of 99%. Then again, the English version Suite101 electronic magazine has been online for over 10 years with more than 7 million readers each month. The English version has over 900 writers while the German counterpart has 200 authors.
Suite101.com has a Google page rank of 7, one more than Suite101.de's ranking of 6. One reason is that the Vancouver-based Suite101.com has 825,000 indexed pages (mostly articles and blogs) while the younger Suite101.de has only 47,400.
Further, Suite101.com has an Alexa online traffic rating of 3,004 which is in the top 0.01% of all websites. Suite101.de has an Alexa score of 147,368 as of April 13, 2008. This is good for the top 0.51% of sites.
One area where Suite101.de has a competitive advantage is in inbound links. The German site has 1.6 million inbound links compared with 236,508 for Vancouver's Suite101. That's because the larger Suite101.com site provides many links to its sister German portal.
So how does our International Trade site stack up against the German site version (Weltwirtschaft & Welthandel translates as Economy & Trade)? Consider the following comparison.
- International Trade Website Grade is 97% (61% for German site)
- International Trade Google Page Rank is 5 (0 for German site)
- International Trade Indexed Pages equals 393 (5 for German site)
- International Trade Inbound Links are 1,287 (2 for German site).
