Every webmaster whose taking serious on his/her site usually monitor its Google PageRank regularly. One of the handy tool for checking Google PageRank of specific website is GoogRank by NirSoft.

GoogRank is a stand-alone software, unlike the other PageRank checker which usually come as a plugin or browser’s toolbar. It takes user-submitted URL and then returns the corresponding PageRank for that URL. Very simple, but it does the job.

By the way, what is Google PageRank?

PageRank is a numeric value that represents how important a page is on the web. Google figures that when one page links to another page, it is effectively casting a vote for the other page. The more votes that are cast for a page, the more important the page must be. Also, the importance of the page that is casting the vote determines how important the vote itself is. Google calculates a page’s importance from the votes cast for it. How important each vote is is taken into account when a page’s PageRank is calculated.

More information about PageRank, including the formula to calculate it yourself, is available in this article.

GoogRank is freeware and can be downloaded here.