What’s Great and What Can Compete.com Make Even Better?
In previous entries, we reviewed the basic aspects of Compete.com and its capabilities, along with a deeper look at the individual sections of the site and the resources within these sections.
Compete.com creators have produced a site useful for an innumerable amount of reasons for a wide range of users. Certain parts of the site excel while others leave critics (and users) eager to give their input to improve an already impressive site. Specific aspects receive a gold star, though other elements need a tune up and to be expanded upon.
AWESOME TEACHING TOOLS: GREAT
There is an About section that delves into each part of the site, explaining to unaware users what tools are available, a renowned blog for its “timely, entertaining and fun commentary across a wide range of topics” (about how people are using the internet)
SIMPLICITY: GOOD
The Ranked Lists section provides an impressive amount of data and is extremely user-friendly (too simple, perhaps), although the majority of the site is very basic (as long as the terms are understood)
INTERACTIVITY: SOLID
A fun part about this site is that it is very interactive- or at least active (drop the inter) because the people behind Compete.com keep users up to date via Twitter, pulling in the power of Social Networking (and people love to get involved with their sites).
TOOLS FOR GOOD MEASURE: EXCELLENT
Compete has a toolbar that you can try and obtain which alerts the user on his/her computer and provides valuable information at your fingertips.
THE POWER OF THE MOUSE: GOOD
Right clicking on a site can be an even bigger convenience, with options including:
View Site Profile, Add to Portfolio, Run Search Report, Run referral Report, and Run Destination Report.
HELPFUL SUBCATEGORIES: USEFUL
Within the Category Index exists the Category Profiles of the Top 250 sites (with free trial account) within each category.
For example, under the category “Hobbies and Interests”
- Cooking
- Crafts
- Environment/Green Information and Advocates
- Family and Lifestyle
- Fashion and Style
- Filmmaking and History of Film
- Genealogy
- Home Improvement, Humor
- Music Lessons and History
- Photography and Art
- Politics and History,
- Reading and Writing, Science,
- Technology
- Volunteer and Non-Profit- are the subcategories.
So Far
We have taken a look at the direction users can go when using Compete.com and the tools available on the site. We have taken a brief look at the individual sections and their capabilities, and finally the Pros of the site. Next we will be looking at the Cons, and the improvements that can be made among these.
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