Zillow.com remained at the top of the Seattle Startup Index for the month of June, but Pet Holdings and its network of comedy Web sites was right on its tail.
There were some other usual suspects in the top five: iLike, Robot Co-op and Picnik. But the most interesting trend is how many new companies were added, a possible signal that the entrepreneurial energy is alive and well in Seattle. (Or as creator Marcelo Calbucci points out, possibly a sign that laid off techies are starting companies in the recession.)
Calbucci says that he added 23 new startups to the list: TweetStats, Common Craft, Serra Media, Timu, Opscode, Glympse, MangoSpring, Clop.in, Truth to Power, XBDiff, Performance Phones, GolfingMyWay, Creative Journey (DropWidget), Meosic, Blue Utopia, Media Tuner, ViaFo, Plategro, ValueAppeal, Hivebrain, PeopleFlip and Clarity.
The startup index -- now with 339 entries -- is based on the companies rankings in Alexa and Compete.com.
Zillow.com actually has been posting some significant traffic gains in recent months in part because people are tuning into the site to refinance mortgages. It posted an average of 8.3 million unique vistitors per month for the first half of the year, a 67 percent increase over the same period last year.
And as always, here's my disclaimer: This is a list. It is just a list. It is not meant to be a true indicator of startup success.
As we've noted many times, profit and revenue growth (not tracked in this list) are the true measures of any business.
John Cook is co-founder of TechFlash. Follow him on Twitter @johnhcook.
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