Brian Barrett | Gizmodo
How do the 288,945 most heavily trafficked sites on the internet stack up against each other? Take a very close look at this chart to find out.
While you could spend all day with a microscope trying to sort out the layers lurking behind AOL and IMDb, the preferred browsing strategy is to check out Nmap’s interactive version. As for the method to the radness:
The area of each icon is proportional to the sum of the reach of all sites using that icon. When both a bare domain name and its “www.” counterpart used the same icon, only one of them was counted. The smallest icons–those corresponding to sites with approximately 0.0001% reach–are scaled to 16×16 pixels. The largest icon (Google) is 11,936 x 11,936 pixels, and the whole diagram is 37,440 x 37,440.
Which is, uh, huge. As for the traffic data itself, it was culled from Alexa earlier this year.
Happy hunting! And please remember take a moment of appreciation for LiveJournal hanging tough. [Nmap via The Daily What]
The original version of the story appears here: http://gizmodo.com/5620681/all-300000-biggest-websites-visualized-with-their-icons
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