Top Sites On The Web
URLFAN is a unique site that rates sites on the web for popularity by parsing millions of blogs and finding the number of mentions of every site that it finds.URLFAN's data is inevitably biased toward bloggers and social media, so any conclusions they come to must be taken with a modicum of reservation. Having said that, the social media/blogging community is very influential, so the data they produce is bound to be of some use.
With that in mind, let’s look at what, according to URLFAN, are the most talked about sites on the web:
(URLFAN is, as we write this, "currently ranking the popularity of 3,783,534 websites by parsing 302,023,552 blog posts from 5,948,937 blog feeds.")
#1. en.wikipedia.org (1)
#2. youtube.com (3)
#3. flickr.com (2)
#4. twitter.com (9)
#5. google.com (4)
#6. myspace.com (6)
#7. facebook.com (-)
#8. imdb.com (5)
#9. nytimes.com (7)
#10. apple.com (8)
The numbers in brackets are last year's ranking (Nov '08).
As you can see, Wikipedia is the most referenced site in the blogging community. Facebook is a new entry at number 7. As you'd expect there are no UK sites in the top; today, as from the start of the web, the US rules the roost. (Though the BBC might have made it on there).
URLFAN gives the opportunity to enter your website to find out how popular it is, according to its ratings system. Why not give it a go? Visit URLFAN here.
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
Links to this post:
Create a Link