The "Wizard 50" is a list of the most visited web sites in the Fence industry. The Fence Wizard has been counting web hits in cyberspace for some time in order to complete the first known Fence Industry traffic list. In doing so we make the following conclusions:
First - It is likely that more than 500,000 prospective fence customers go online each month for product information, company research, and to purchase material from online retailers. Online retailers represent the bulk of the traffic. This is a direct result of the paid advertising they do with google, yahoo, and msn to secure product ads on search engines.
Second - Many of these companies did not exist 1 or 2 years ago - this tells us that online retailing in the fence industry is still growing and new capital is coming in to create some of these companies.
Third - These online retailers are typically competing with Home Depot and Lowe's - meaning that they are pushing inferior product in most cases and often selling products with specs that most of us would refuse to install ....see one of the Fence Wizard's past articles on the subject -click here.
Now without further delay - The "Wizard 50" with traffic totals (these are unique visitors per month as averaged over the past one year)......
Hoover Fence Company (On-line Fence Retail) www.hooverfence.com/ 51,834
Trex (Composite Fence and Deck Manufacturer) www.trex.com/ 29,374
Chamberlain (Access Control Systems) www.chamberlain.com/ 25,870
Invisible Fence (The no fence of fencing) www.invisiblefence.com/ 25,443
Master Halco (National Wholesale Distributer) www.fenceonline.com/ 23,690
Cali Bamboo (Complete Bamboo Product Line) www.calibamboo.com/ 23,153
Academy Fence (NY and NJ Resi - Retailer) www.academyfence.com/ 21,301
Vinyl Fence and Deck (Bufftech and More) www.avinylfence.com/ 18,650
Amazing Gates (Gates and Access Control) www.amazinggates.com/ 18,404
Fence Center (Total Residential Fence Dealer) www.fencecenter.com/ 17,176
Garden Structure (Plans, Custom Wood) www.gardenstructure.com/ 17,009
King Architectual Metals (Iron Parts and More) www.kingmetals.com/ 14,336
Kencove (Farm Fence Supply) www.kencove.com/ 12,313
Fence Depot (Residential Fence Sales) www.fence-depot.com/ 9,839
Long Fence (East Coast full service) www.longfence.com/ 9,308
Husker Vinyl (Westech Vinyl Retail) www.huskervinyl.com/ 8,897
Discount Fence (Resi and Access Control) www.discountfence.com/ 8,819
A Vinyl Fence and Deck Wholesaler www.vinylfenceanddeck.com/ 8,614
Fence Wholesale (Residential On-line Retail) www.fencewholesale.com/ 8,328
Global Fence and Gate (Iron/Aluminum) www.globalfenceandgate.com/ 6,850
Austintown Fence Company (Vinyl/Alum.) www.afencecompany.com/ 5,559
Fence It (Strange link only page) www.fenceit.com/ 5,591
Ameristar Fence ( Leader in Metal Fence) www.ameristarfence.com/ 5,116
Better Fences (On-line Residential) www.betterfences.com/ 4,732
Artisan Precast (Concrete Wall Stamping) www.artisanprecast.com/ 4,303
Completely Random Links Page www.fence4less.com/ 4,072
Pool Fence (Removable Mesh Fence) www.poolfence.com/ 3,885
AFA (official site) www.americanfenceassociation.com/ 3,458
Ametco (Steel Fence and Industrial Products) www.ametco.com/ 2,937
Fiberon (Composite Fence and Deck) www.fiberondecking.com/ 2,670
Pacific Gate Works (Very Custom Gates) www.pacificgateworks.com/ 2,501
Buy Vinyl Fence (Complete Vinyl Line) www.buyvinylfence.com/ 2,483
Fence City (Delgard Aluminum Fence) www.fencecity.com/ 2,303
Vinyl Fence (Residential Vinyl) www.vinylfence.com/ 2,038
Great Fence (Residential Aluminum) www.greatfence.com/ 2,018
Merchants Metals (Complete Wholesale) www.merchantsmetals.com/ 1,997
Protect A Child (Removable Mesh Fence) www.protectachild.com/ 1,736
Select Fence Distributers (Aluminum Fence) www.selectfence.com/ 1,661
Royal Outdoor Prodcuts (Complete Vinyl) www.royalcrownltd.com/ 1,585
Outdoor Fence (Complete Residential) www.outdoorfence.com/ 1,579
Privacy Link (Vinyl Slats) www.eprivacylink.com/ 1,561
Bufftech Vinyl (Official Site) www.bufftech.com/ 1,498
Apollo (Complete Access Control) www.apollogate.com/ 1,480
All Star (Access Control Systems) www.allstarcorp.com/ 1,477
Pro Tarps (Privacy Screen and Solar Shade) www.protarps.com/ 1,425
American Fence Co. (Largest Fence Installers) www.americanfence.com/ 1,386
Danielle Fence Mfg.(Florida Full Service) www.daniellefence.com/ 1,357
Softward Design Specialists (Custom Software) www.fencesoftware.com/ 1,025
Boundary Fence and Railing Systems www.boundary-fences.com/ 984
Collins Company (Custom Screen and Mesh) www.collinscompany.com/ 931
All Horse Fence (Vinyl Rail and other Equine) www.allhorsefence.com/ 789
Kiwi Fence (High Tensile Fence) www.kiwifence.com/ 684
Country Estate (Vinyl and Aluminum Wholesale) www.countryestate.com/ 608
World Fence News (Key Link to News / Trends) www.worldfencenews.com/ 603
Builders Fence Co (Complete Wholesale House) www.buildersfence.com/ 456
Originally posted Dec 2007.