It’s been nearly a year since Purchasing Magazine and its site, purchasing.com, went away. While I miss some of the content, that site’s demise certainly hasn’t left the web void of sources of news, views, and education for the procurement professional.
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I’ve compiled a list of 20 top sites in the procurement space. These are sorted by their Alexa traffic rank, which is designed to rank sites from most to least traffic (by Alexa’s measurements).
The lower the number, the more traffic the site gets. Traffic rank changes regularly, so these are the numbers extracted today. By the way, the #1 site among all sites – not just procurement sites – is google.com, followed by facebook.com at #2.
OK…onto those procurement sites…
1. scmr.com – 268,950
2. supplymanagement.com – 304,775
3. spendmatters.com – 310,865
4. nextlevelpurchasing.com – 335,969
5. cporising.com – 362,372
6. procurementleaders.com – 363,205
7. sdcexec.com – 451,686
8. agmetalminer.com – 478,525
9. sourcinginnovation.com – 745,030
10. theferrarigroup.com – 842,732
11. spendmatters.co.uk – 966,611
12. strategicsourceror.com – 1,751,907
13. cpoagenda.com – 1,833,581
14. purchasinginsight.com – 1,938,216
15. vmo-blog.com – 2,051,482
16. atrisk.net – 2,230,426
17. esourcingforum.com – 2,443,306
18. supplyexcellence.com – 2,494,630
19. 2sustain.com – 3,291,172
20. mypurchasingcenter.com – 4,502,076
In addition to this list being a good resource for procurement professionals to use for their research, I think that marketers can benefit from this list as well. Many of these sites offer advertising or sponsorship opportunities where marketers can directly reach procurement decision-makers and it’s not always clear how much bang a company is getting for its marketing buck. This list shows who has the traffic, relatively speaking.
If you are a marketer and interested in getting a copy of the media kit for sponsorship opportunities on nextlevelpurchasing.com, please send an email to mmccollum [at] nextlevelpurchasing [dot] com.
Comments
Just curious – why is nextlevelpurchasing.com on your list if this site is purchasingcourses.com?
People may want to check the math here – I just did and I got a very different Top Ten
This blog is maintained on a different domain than NextLevelPurchasing.com. The NextLevelPurchasing.com domain gets far more traffic.
What “math” is there to check? There are no calculations. It’s just rankings according to Alexa. Alexa’s rankings do change based on traffic over different time periods.
I just checked Alexa for the first five sites listed. As of today, cporising.com moved from fifth to second, pushing the others down a slot. Other than that, the Alexa ranking for each domain today is similar to the Alexa ranking on the day reported.
You identified the 20 top sites in the procurement space. How many sites are there in the procurement space universe?
I have no idea how many sites are in the procurement space. Sites come and go. I also didn’t claim that these were “THE” top 20. I said that these were “20 top sites in the procurement space.” Are there more? Of course! Are there some that rank higher in Alexa that I didn’t include? Probably.
I also didn’t include sites that didn’t have a discrete domain name. For example, Procurement Insights is a good procurement site. But their URL is procureinsights.wordpress.com. So doing an Alexa ranking on wordpress.com would give a ranking of WordPress – a company that hosts blogs – and not on Procurement Insights.
There’s no prize for making my list. I simply hope that I’ve introduced procurement professionals to some info sources that they weren’t aware of.