Total Internet Web pages, there are approximately more than 150 million active operation. As a result, it becomes a real challenge for users to identify secure Web sites that are reliable and reputed. Have you ever wondered to know the reputation of a Web site before placing the order? You need to know if a particular Web site is safe kid? Well, here are some ways to identify secure Web sites on the Web.
WOT is a great place to check the reputation of your favorite Web site. WOT provides real-time ratings for each Web site on the basis of the comments that it receives from millions of reliable users across the globe and trusted sources, such as blacklists of phishing and malware. Each domain name shall be evaluated on the basis of these data and ratings shall apply mutatis mutandis. A snapshot of the WOT gohacking.com rating is shown below:
As shown in the above screenshot, the reputation of each Web site is displayed by the view of 4 elements which means Green, yellow excellent warns users to be cautious and red indicates a potential danger.
Reliability indicates the overall security of the website. A poor rating may indicate that the site is associated with threats such as Internet fraud, phishing, identity theft and malware.
Supplier reliability tells you whether a given site is safe to proceed to buy and sell transactions. An excellent rating indicates higher customer satisfaction, while a bad rating indicates possible fraud or bad experience.
Privacy says about "how far the site respectful of the privacy of users and protects their personal identity and data.
Child safety indicates whether the content of a particular site is suitable for children. Site content such as erotic material, nudity and obscenity have a bad score child safety .
In most cases, the WOT ratings are found to be highly accurate. To check the reputation of any given Web site, just visit www.mywot.com press-in your favorite Web page address, and click check now. Only this tool can tell a lot about the integrity and the safety level of a Web site. However, in addition to this, I will give you another 3 useful tools to identify secure Web sites on the Web.
2. McCafee SiteAdvisor:
McCafee SiteAdvisor is a free tool which is available as a browser add-on. Adds safety ratings to your browser and search engine results. This can be downloaded from the www.siteadvisor.com.
3. StopBadware:
Using this tool, you can check if a given site is said to have participated in activity of malware in the past. To check this, go to http://www.stopbadware.org/home/reportsearch and enter the URL or domain name from a Web site and click "Search Clearinghouse". If your search does not return any results, this means that the site has never participated in any activity of malware in the past.
4. Google Pagerank:
Google PageRank is another great tool to test reputation and popularity of a website. The tool PageRank rates each Web page on a scale from 1 to 10, which indicates the Google view of the importance of the page. If a particular Web site has a PageRank of less than 3, then is said to be less popular among the other sites on the Internet.
However, PageRank will only tell you how popular a particular Web site is and has nothing to do with the security level of a Web site. Thus, only this tool cannot be used for the evaluation of the safety of the website and other factors.
The PageRank feature is available as part of the Google toolbar. You can install the Google Toolbar from http://www.google.com/intl/en_uk/toolbar/ie/index.html.
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