- Type
- not stated
- Format
- ASP-based member-gated web portal publishing dated price-trend graphs with headline values; free registration tier plus a paid VIP tier, with no published CSV, bulk export or API
- Volume
- Article store is large and continuous: sequential article identifiers have reached roughly 1.1 million, with several publications per weekday across tungsten, molybdenum, cobalt and ferroalloy. The genuinely valuable subset is far smaller and highly structured — weekly price series across perhaps 10-30 commodity-and-geography combinations, i.e. order 1,000-1,500 dated price assessments per year.
- Users
- Small — est. hundreds to low thousands of registered accounts across Chinese and English tiers (inferred from a free-registration tier sitting behind a paid VIP tier, operated by a roughly 3-person Beijing firm whose per-article view counts run in the tens-to-hundreds rather than thousands)
- History
- 18 years
- Update frequency
- not stated
- Growth
- Active but not scaling — publication is current and continuous (the assessed weekly report is stamped 1 April 2026 and sibling weekly reports for the same week sit alongside it, with advertising inventory on the page refreshed as recently as May 2026), yet the platform itself is a legacy table-based build with no modern product surface and the registered organisation has not grown past roughly three staff. Content cadence is maintained; the business is not expanding.
- Launched
- ~2008 or earlier (inferred: the earliest dated content path on the domain is December 2008 and the fee-service page carries a 2008-era path, so the publication was already operating then; the site's table-based design is consistent with an older build)
- Delivery
- not stated
- Entity mapping
- not stated
- Sample
- not stated
- Point-in-time
- not stated
- Licence
- not stated