PR is an indicator of how important a site is - at least to Google. As such, webmasters place a lot of importance to it. Large number of websites have been developed based on PR as the subject. There are sites that display the PR, there are others that try to predict your PR while others try to sell you products that can supposedly improve your PR.

Google continuously updates website PageRank but it is updated on the Google toolbar only once about three months. Websites try to crack the algorithm used to determine the PR and thus predict the future PR of the site.

Google it seems now has decided to start displaying your current PR on your webmasters help account. For example look at the screen shot below.

Expected PR

To see how well you are currently placed with regards to PR, go to https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools , and login to your account. Under statistics, you have an option for ‘Crawl Stats’. Bingo, there you have your current PR distribution of your site.

Also on this page you get information on which page of your site has the highest page rank!