Last Updated on October 25, 2024 by Mathew Diekhake
Upwork (upwork.com) is a freelance marketplace, where clients can interview, hire and work with independent talent through Upwork’s platform. For freelancers, upwork.com is a freelancer’s workforce, the place to find new clients, offer services, and make money on the internet.
ALTERNATIVES
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DESCRIPTION
The upwork.com homepage had testimonies and made it easy to sign up but I was a bit disappointed with how few examples there were to check before signing up. If I didn’t know anyone who uses or has used upwork.com, would I feel like I would proceed to create an account based on what I see on the homepage today? Doubtful. However, one section I did like down the homepage was recently posted jobs, so it gave me an idea of what some of the jobs look like. I recommend extending this section further. Instead of only showing 6 recently added jobs, I would reduce the size of the text and fit a lot more of them in. Beneath the section showing recent jobs was more testimonial-type content. I recommend reducing the testimonials and letting the content and engagement do the talking for itself. If visitors can see many jobs on offer and users engage with them, it will automatically look appealing to new site visitors and encourage them to join in if they have jobs of their own that need doing or if they are looking for work.
HISTORY
As of March 2024, upwork.com has 46.96 million monthly views (46.5M, Feb 2023), according to Similar Web. The Wayback Machine estimates that upwork.com was founded on February 29, 2000. The Internet Archive has saved upwork.com 69,936 times between February 29, 2000 and April 30, 2024.
The domain upwork.com was crawled minimally by the Wayback Machine in 2000, then again in 2011, 2013, and 2014. However, it wasn’t until 2015 that upwork.com received a booming growth of traffic, which has remained steady to date. The domain upwork.com was acquired by the merged company called “Elance-Odesk” in 2015 and rebranded the company as Upwork. In March 2017, the company reported 14 million users in over 180 countries, with annual freelancer billing of 1 billion dollars and raised funding of $168 million since its creation.
Is upwork.com Safe?
I analyzed upwork.com for malware and malicious content to check if it was legit or a scam. Here are the results:
I checked the site upwork.com on Sucuri, and it returned with a 403 Forbidden site issue.
According to Sucuri, the site upwork.com is a medium security risk. Sucuri presents this domain as a medium security risk assessment because the scan was unable to run due to a 403 Forbidden (warning-400) conflict. The scan failed at the http://upwork.com/ URL.
I then tested upwork.com on Unmask Parasites and it is clean.
I also checked upwork.com on VirusTotal, and it is clean.
In conclusion, Sucuri says upwork.com is a medium security risk due to a 403 Forbidden error. No security vendors associated with Sucuri or VirusTotal have flagged upwork.com as malicious, and Unmask Parasites found no issues. OVERALL GRADE: Relatively Safe.
Links and Profiles
Website: upwork.com
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