Most Popular Websites for Money Saving Ideas
Personal Finance Tips from Frugal Dad to Bible Money Matters
According to USA.gov, managing debt and saving money are 2 of the top 3 New Year’s resolutions for American citizens.
This article presents the 10 most-visited websites that educate consumers about money saving tips.
Excluded from the analysis are sites like MSN Personal Finance. The web traffic tool used for this analysis (Alexa) tracks by root website address only. The overall MSN site receives an average 3.7 billion page views each month for many topics besides saving money.
Also excluded are subscription websites for wholesale shopping clubs like Sam’s Club. Sam’s attracts over 58 million page views monthly.
Most Visited Websites Offering Money Saving Ideas
Listed below are money savings sites with the most online traffic. Sites are ranked by the average number of monthly visitors over the past 3 months.
- Mint.com … 6.1 million monthly visitors (up 66.7%)
- Wise Bread … 1.6 million (up 38%)
- Kiplinger … 1.4 million (up 18%)
- The Simple Dollar … 955,419 (up 16%)
- The Dollar Stretcher … 804,188 (up 12%)
- All You … 562,828 (up 83%)
- Frugal Dad … 434,477 (down 26%)
- Bible Money Matters … 299,536 (up 182%)
- Dough Roller … 259,901 (up 85%)
- Frugal Village … 183,258 (down 18%).
While all above sites share the common goal to save money, each web portal applies a unique approach to reaching that goal.
Top 5 Websites for Money Saving Ideas
The most visited site is Mint.com, which offers free personal budget planning software. Other free services include email or text message alerts that help consumers avoid overdraft, bounced checks and late fees. The Mint site also has online calculators that instantly compare rates and fees for about 50 credit cards, 12 bank checking or savings accounts as well as 12 CD deposit accounts.
Wise Bread is an educational blog with articles that teach consumers how to live large on a small budget. Recent articles include 5 Websites for Swapping Your Clothes and Refreshing Your Wardrobe and Craigslist Shopping 101.
Kiplinger is an online magazine with articles that show how to save money on practically everything – from entertainment and food to transportation, utilities, investing and more. Kiplinger also has a comprehensive set of online tools for family finance, investing, retirement and taxes. Kipling even has specialty calculators for car prices and job searches with salary comparisons by job category and zip code.
The Simple Dollar is money saving blog written in plain language. Site author Trent tells personal stories about how he recovered from losing a lot of cash to full financial recovery. The Simple Dollar uses a checklist approach to summarize essential lessons learned, like Trent’s 14 Money Rules that include Do It Yourself and Plan Ahead Every Time You Spend.
The Dollar Stretcher is a Florida-based website that was launched back in 1996. The site is well-organized, and includes audience categories such as baby boomers, family, just starting out and lifestyle. Over 200,000 consumers receive The Dollar Stretcher newsletter.
Other Popular Websites for Money Saving Tips
All You is an online magazine that features a daily savings blog, exclusive coupons and giveaways. All You’s website has a recent video showing one of its contributing editors discussing 12 gifts for under $25 on the Today Show.
Frugal Dad has a Twitter chat edition and a top 10 linked list of most popular blogs as determined by visitor page views.
Bible Money Matters is a Christian personal finance blog that helps ordinary folks develop a plan to live a life free of debt and financial strain. Site owners live by verse: “The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.” (Proverbs 22:7)
The Dough Roller takes a more earthy approach, telling its audience to making more, spend less and invest the rest. Recent articles on Dough Roller include a sober piece on How to Walk Out of Vegas a Winner.
Frugal Village is more of an interactive community website. Blogs range from home-made presents that kids can make to easy-to-find alternatives for 7 items that consumers hate paying for.
Most Popular Money Saving Websites from Internet Searches
Sites like The Dollar Stretcher depend on web searches for a higher percentage of its online traffic than other top sites like Mint.com. Below is the list of top money saving websites sorted by sites with the highest percentage of online page visits from search engine traffic.
- The Dollar Stretcher … 42.6% of total page views (551,560 search engine hits)
- Dough Roller … 25.3% (120,332)
- Kiplinger … 21.6% (647,794)
- Wise Bread … 19.9% (757,187)
- Frugal Village … 18% (102,258)
- Frugal Dad … 12.4% (80,274)
- The Simple Dollar … 10.9% (184,329)
- All You Magazine … 8.8% (220,899)
- Bible Money Matters … 8.2% (60,668)
- Mint.com … 5.7% (1,039,982).
Based on the above statistics, one might assume that Mint.com receives a lot of traffic from linking websites and online visitors who return to the site. At 5.7% search engine traffic is an important but relatively smaller source of page views for Mint.com when compared with The Dollar Stretcher’s 42.6% results.
Sources
This article provides independent calculations and insights based on data from the leading Internet traffic monitoring site, Alexa. The above statistics were calculated using a comparative benchmark of 24 million monthly visitors to the Suite101 website averaged over the past three months.
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