The Top 10 Most Influential Websites in the World

The oddly-named service called ://URLFAN ranks websites by popularity – based on website mentions. Unlike analytics services like Alexa or Compete, ://URLFAN doesn’t measure website traffic. It’s similar to Technorati, only it ranks all websites and not just blogs.

They states that they parse ”the millions of blog posts that are generated everyday, literally counting every mention of every website we come across”. It claims to filter out spam, broken links, and ”other various material” in order to come up with its rankings.

As of right now, it claims to have ranked the popularity of 3,783,534 websites by parsing 363,908,177 blog posts from 8,195,836 blog feeds.

Yes it’s been around for a while, but I think it’s reached the point now where it’s a very useful tool to measure influence on the Internet.

Here is the current top 10:

1. en.wikipedia.org
2. youtube.com
3. flickr.com
4. twitter.com
5. facebook.com
6. google.com
7. myspace.com
8. nytimes.com
9. imdb.com
10. vimeo.com