Best Wedding Websites

 

 

Our list of the Top 10 Wedding Sites was compiled using a variety of factors. We began with a list of the most popular wedding websites according to Alexa.com, and added in a consideration of Google Page Rank, and our own ranking of the websites’ design, user friendliness and usefulness (for information or service). 


 

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The top two websites The Knot.com and The Wedding Channel are really the giants in this field with the most traffic and the most employees, but some of the smaller companies are exceptional sites. 

Frenchtowner.com’s ten best wedding websites are:

1. The Knot

10 points: #1 Alexa rank 3,446

 6 points: Google Page Rank = 6

 2 points: Frenchtowner.com design rank = 2 of 4 stars [cluttered design, sappy colors]

 2 points: Frenchtowner.com user friendliness rank = 3 of 4 stars [cluttered overload]

 4 points: Frenchtowner.com informational value rank 4 of 4 stars [info ranking]

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25 points

Frenchtowner.com Notes: The Knot is an incredibly large site [226,000 pages listed on Google] and a very successful one. A large part of that success is the wealth of local wedding resources that the site lists for every region of the country. For instance, just look at this page for photographers from the Hudson Valley Region.

Company Info: 260 Employees, [address: theknot.com], base New York City, NASDAQ: KNOT

2. (tie) Wedding Channel

9 points: #2 Alexa rank 5,528

6 points: Google Page Rank = 6

2 points: Frenchtowner.com design rank = 2 of 4 stars [cluttered design, sappy colors]

2 points: Frenchtowner.com user friendliness rank = 2 of 4 stars [cluttered, pop-ups]

4 points: Frenchtowner.com usefulness rank 4 of 4 stars [info ranking]

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23 points

Frenchtowner.com Notes: The wedding channel site is actually much larger in terms of pages than the knot.com. There are 486,000 wedding channel pages listed on Google, with a gigantic number of retailer and product pages as well as a large number of bridal registry pages.

Company Info: 100-250 Employees, [address: weddingchannel.com], base Los Angeles, private company.

 

2. (tie) Ewedding.com

8 points: #3 Alexa rank 26,588

5 points: Google Page Rank = 5

4 points: Frenchtowner.com design rank = 4 of 4 stars [clean, simple design, great colors]

4 points: Frenchtowner.com user friendliness rank = 4 of 4 stars [simple, no pop-ups]

2 points: Frenchtowner.com usefulness rank = 2 of 4 stars [service ranking]

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23 points

Frenchtowner.com Notes: Ewedding.com is a large site with 77,900 pages listed on Google.  Ewedding.com is a wedding services company that allows couples to make a website for their wedding, upload photos, events and calendars. Of all of our wedding and bridal sites that we reviewed it is the most advanced in terms of it’s technology and it is the best designed site of them all. It stands in a class above all the others. We would love to see what they could do if they decided to expand their offerings and services to compete with The Knot and The Wedding Channel.

Company info: # of employees: unknown, private company, [address: ewedding.com], no about us page or actual geographic contact information on the site.

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