CityStar.com ranked in the top 5,000 sites in U.S.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Aug. 7, 2013 - PRLog -- CityStar.com has now been ranked as one of the top 5,000 websites in the U.S. by Alexa, the Web information company. Over the past few weeks, the site has steadily improved in the Alexa traffic rankings, and as of today, August 7, its rank in the U.S. is 4,854 out of the millions of sites on which Alexa currently provides data.

CityStar was founded in Colorado Springs, Colorado in December of 1994, and the original CityStar.com search engine and directory site was launched in 1996. Now branded as the international business directory, it's very well propagated. Beginning in 2002, 303 unique city directory websites were gradually added for cities in the United States and 20 other countries. Each of these sites includes pages of listings for resources in other nearby cities, covering a total of over 4,886 cities and towns. The company was incorporated in Colorado as CityStar Group, Inc. in 1999.

Alexa Internet, Inc., an Amazon.com company, provides free website analyics for all websites. Alexa is best known for the Alexa Rank, their website ranking system which tracks over 30 million websites worldwide. This and its other metrics allow site owners to benchmark their sites and give consumers, marketers and advertisers metrics to evaluate websites for media buying, partnerships, and other business opportunities.