Ranking the Top 100 Websites in the World

December 24, 2019 5:05 AM

Ranking the Top 100 Websites in the World

Link to high resolution infographic.

posted by JeffL (21 comments total)

Canada is the porn capital of the world?
posted by pracowity at 6:20 AM on December 24, 2019 [2 favorites]

I wonder what tsyndicate.com is, and also I'd like to check out the fake MS phishing site, but am too scared.
posted by Literaryhero at 6:34 AM on December 24, 2019

The "fake" Microsoft site isn't phishing-related at all, it's what MS runs Office 365 and most of their login services through. A ten second WHOIS query verifies that. Makes me wonder if the rest of this shouldn't be taken with a grain of salt.
posted by Molten Berle at 7:06 AM on December 24, 2019 [4 favorites]

tsyndicate.com also appears to be CloudFlare, a well-known and well-regarded web infrastructure provider.
posted by Molten Berle at 7:11 AM on December 24, 2019 [1 favorite]

There's a sort of nostalgia about ranking website URLs, as if the mobile Internet world does not exist. Tik Tok is invisible in this report, as is WeChat. And products like TaoBao and WhatsApp and Instagram look much smaller than they are. Ignoring mobile apps greatly biases this report to Western users. I mean sure, it's pedantically a correct listing of websites, but no longer of Internet properties.

On the mobile flip side: what's up with ampproject.org? Is that the AMP hosting sites use if they don't want to be captured by Google?
posted by Nelson at 7:28 AM on December 24, 2019 [5 favorites]

Your top 100 list sucks.
posted by simra at 7:36 AM on December 24, 2019 [1 favorite]

Seriously, it makes me nostalgic for suck.com and a time when slashdot wasn’t entirely overrun with reflexive libertarians.
posted by simra at 7:40 AM on December 24, 2019 [7 favorites]

Astounded to learn that Pornhub is Canadian, considering the depiction of an erect penis was illegal in most of Canada until the late 80s. Canada customs was still targeting shipments of lesbian/gay books and magazines (for confiscation) at the border into the 00s.
posted by bonobothegreat at 8:24 AM on December 24, 2019 [3 favorites]

Astounded to learn that Pornhub gets almost ten times as many visits as Fox News.
posted by box at 8:35 AM on December 24, 2019 [2 favorites]

so, the so-called Western World is basically Google-Facebook-Youtube ... and then everything starts atomizing from there, depending on one's interests, prejudices, predilections, compulsions, needs.

I suppose I'm glad to see that Wikipedia is marginally more popular than Twitter ... and Pornhub for that matter. But if this was a city, they'd still be found in more or less the same suburb. Their kids would go to the same schools.
posted by philip-random at 8:50 AM on December 24, 2019 [1 favorite]

"Click to buy this as a poster! click 404, that page cannot be found!"

I really like the site (really!), but it's mildly ironic that the part of The Visual Capitalist where they take money is broken.
posted by cowcowgrasstree at 9:26 AM on December 24, 2019 [1 favorite]

I also find it interesting that there don't seem to be BIG scans of the Crass posters available for free*. Not exactly Anarchy.

* I didn't look that hard.
posted by philip-random at 9:41 AM on December 24, 2019 [1 favorite]

Exceptions to Google’s dominance can be found in China (Baidu) and Russia (Yandex), where homegrown search engines have managed to capture the domestic market.

One scrappy competitor, DuckDuckGo, is slowly gaining prominence - but no mention of Bing. Ouch.
posted by doctornemo at 9:52 AM on December 24, 2019 [1 favorite]

In case you're wondering why Tumblr is shown here linked to Yahoo!, it's cos this article was posted on August 7 2019, five days before it was sold to Automattic Inc.
posted by Ten Cold Hot Dogs at 10:24 AM on December 24, 2019 [2 favorites]

Also, how much of this outside of the goog is hosted on AWS servers?
posted by lalochezia at 10:40 AM on December 24, 2019

* I didn't look that hard.

not even hard enough to post my comment in the right thread, it seems.
posted by philip-random at 11:29 AM on December 24, 2019

I’m assuming Zombo.com is a much larger circle outside the graphic, encompassing all the other circles.
posted by Slarty Bartfast at 12:41 PM on December 24, 2019 [5 favorites]

Bing is there. Number 23. A little after reddit.
posted by Bee'sWing at 12:43 PM on December 24, 2019 [2 favorites]

but no mention of Bing. Ouch.

Especially considering they provide the bulk of the results to DDG
posted by GuyZero at 2:10 PM on December 24, 2019 [2 favorites]

I thought pornhub and xtube were owned by the same company. They aren't.
posted by SisterHavana at 7:26 PM on December 24, 2019

Can't be taken seriously; doesn't list Ling's Cars.
posted by flabdablet at 8:44 AM on December 25, 2019