So is your Web host hot? Would you like to rate your Web hosting company? Sure – there is nothing really new about the idea of rating your Web hosting company on services, speed, quality and more, but the folks at HostGator.com have developed a new and interesting way of doing things.

Here is a little more information from the alligator people.

Host Gator, a leading provider of shared, dedicated and reseller web hosting, announced today the availability of a new widget that enables web site and blog owners to have visitors rate how fast their site is loading. The widget is available free of charge. All site owners have to do is cut and paste a short snippet of HTML code into their web sites.

Sounds pretty neat hu? The Rate My Web Hosting tool has a very simple and easy to understand interface. All you need to do is sign up, copy the code and paste it on your Web site.

Then as people visit your Web site they can vote on how quickly your Web site came up for them – in turn determining how fast your Web host is. Users are given a map with pin pointed locations to see where the votes are coming from as well.

Now when it comes into a Web host’s speed, how fast it loads a Web site might not be the best way of going about things. How you code the Web site has a lot to do with how speedy it is as well. With that aside though, this is still a very neat tool that I am sure a lot of you will get use out of.

Check out the demo and let me know what you think!

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