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Quarkbase is a very useful tool to find out a huge variety of information on any website. It mashes up over 30 data sources and many algorithms gathering  information on various topics like social popularity, traffic, associated people etc. One of the best things about it is that it’s free and doesn’t have any advertisements. Although it does use Alexa to show the traffic history which is already broken and also been declared dead by ‘Dr.’ Allen Stern.

Just enter the name or URL of the website you want to look up, and it’ll show you the various stats. If it’s been entered for the first time in the Quarkbase search box, the results take some time to show up. Quarkbase will show you a screenshot of the webpage, along with a summary, traffic rank, famous in countries, associated people, blog rank from Technorati, tags, language, delicious links, blogging tool, framework, contact info, hosting info and many more. It’ll also show you the backlinks from major social sharing websites like StumbleUpon and Digg as well as any backlinks from Wikipedia. Thanks to Quarkbase, we found out that we have been actually linked on Wikipedia!

You’ll also be shown the most popular posts of last week and all times, along with the amount of Delicious Bookmarks, Diggs, Twitturly twitts and reach, Reddit points and comments as well as StumbleUpon comments that they got. This is a great way of summarizing the amount of traffic you’re getting from various social sharing websites and gives you a quick glance of where you are more popular.

Feeds are also shown with their subscriber count ( we have 52706 on Quarkbase at the moment, although we have 53404 at the moment! ). The blog reactions from Technorati are also shown in the Spotlight section as well as the mention of your website’s URLs on Twitter. In the end comes a detailed view of development and hosting information.

A wealth of information is at your disposal with Quarkbase and it’s a must bookmark if you have your own websites. Specially, if you’re a blogger!

Here’s a link to our stats on Quarkbase.