Celebrities’ value with zero inflation

In Hollywood, honesty is a rare commodity. Sycophants abound: “Your collagen-injected lips look so natural!” or “Sure, your last movie tanked, but everyone knows it was the director’s fault.”

But thick-skinned celebrities who want a better barometer of their fame should check out www.fametracker.com.

Launched in 1999 as a companion to www.televisionwithoutpity.com, the sardonic TV-recap-and-review website, fametracker.com puts the famous and the infamous under the microscope.

Tara Ariano -- (a.k.a. “Wing Chun”), 29, co-editor and co-creator of both sites -- is a feisty Canadian who rails on the glut of the “happy, happy positive celebrity” magazines like “In Touch” and “Us Weekly.”

“Fametracker.com is a clear-eyed assessment [of celebrities],” she says. Ariano adds that other print and online magazines can’t afford to be brutally honest -- they need to snag those cover shots and “in-depth” profiles, and they’d rather not run an impossible gantlet of mamas, managers and press agents to gain access to a celeb. But fametracker.com doesn’t care what the industry thinks.

The site’s “Fame Audit” examines an actor’s body of work and determines his or her actual and deserved level of distinction. After Will Smith did “Ali,” Ariano said she wanted to “take down” his career in his audit, but after examining Smith’s film resume, Ariano developed a newfound respect for the actor. “After all, the guy has six films [and counting] that have made the $100-million mark.”

The “2 Stars 1 Slot” section is a written version of “Celebrity Deathmatch,” comparing and contrasting the careers of similarly cast actors. In the recent “Battle of the Portly Paisans,” Paul Sorvino was given the edge over Danny Aiello.

But fametracker.com isn’t all about busting Tinseltown’s posers. The “Hey! It’s That Guy!” section is a tribute to character actors. “It’s a living eulogy to someone we like,” Ariano says, “an appreciation of a lesser-known actor’s body of work.”

So for celebs who may not like their audit (you thought De Niro and they said David Caruso) -- don’t worry about it. Seriously.

Just ask your agent.