Google list of the 1000 most popular Web sites
Tim Finin, 11:03am 28 May 2010Google publishes a list of the 1000 most popular Web sites based on unique visitors to the top-level domain. The list is compiled by their (DoubleClick) Ad Planner group and shows estimates for the monthly number of unique visitors and pageviews. Not surprisingly, Facebook tops the list with 540M visitors and 570B page views per month.
Each site is categorized (e.g., as social network, web portal, search engine, etc) though some of these are surely wrong — e.g., #985, dropbox.com, is listed as “Myth & Folklore”. They say that the list excludes “adult sites, ad networks, domains that don’t have publicly visible content or don’t load properly, and certain Google sites.”
If you want to play with the data, a Karl Seguin has downloaded the data, added some additional attributes, and made it available in json. That would make it easy to run your own analysis on them — category distribution, country distribution, average load time, etc.
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May 28th, 2010 at 12:21 pm
The link above is polluted by Facebook — try
June 15th, 2010 at 8:58 am
I wonder where Google.com would sit on the list if they had it there, and why they excluded it but included other Google sites like blogspot.com (maybe just to contrast against WordPress.com!).
June 15th, 2010 at 9:23 am
Ditto on the FB link pollution. Here’s a clean link: http://www.google.com/adplanner/static/top1000/
Pity they don’t give a CSV download for the list, I’d love to do some further analysis!