The ONION.com, an excellent source for news..

Ok.. I understand that the Onion isn't really an actual source for real news but it is a good site of respite from the daily grind of factual news.  The Onion is an interesting site which has updated content throughout the week.  It is a good place to go for laughs no matter what your views.  The site is laid out with headlines of imaginary stories and humorous photos.  The have a blog, you can follow them on Twitter and it hits on most every positive aspect listed on Websitegrader.com.  One spot they did get negative marks on was for having too many images, but that is part of the product so we will ignore that. Yet the still achieve a grade of 98.   They also get a good ranking from Google's pagerank checker placing them at 8 out of 10.  There are 5,750 pages out there with links to the Onion site as well, which shows that they are getting thier name out there.  The domain has been around for 17 years and that has to help with recognition of the name. 

The design of the site could use a revamping.  After you scroll down from the initial few headlines you see a good mess of thumbnail articles.  These could be inserted into drop down tabs from the topic tabs at the top of the page.  Saving people from scrolling down the page is good to keep their customers reading and good for their business. 

Their income comes from a good majority of advertising which is one reason that the frontpage requires scrolling.  All along the righthand side of the page are advertisements.  When I was on the site the ads were for Google TV.  Although I did not click through the links, I am interested to learn more about this product.  The other source of income is through products and subscriptions to a print edition.  You should check out their products page, the have some pretty amusing things.

Over all I feel that the site is well construction and is continually updated with laughable content.  Plus their roots are from the upper Midwest over in Madison! Keep up the good work Onion!