Another post about Rankings - from Alexa.com

Yet another post to waste a few minutes of your day.

Quote from an unknown blogger:

"...Updating this blog with new posts for the sake of updates should be encouraged... Without updates, there will be no progress.."

Just the other day, when I was trying to log in to Friendster, I was directed to a "friendly" website with the heading Temporary Maintenance. It actually “thanked” me for visiting Friendster, and provided some “great” facts among the Friendster community. One interesting fact that caught my eye was:

Friendster is now the 14th largest website on the planet in terms of traffic

So, I set off to search the busiest websites in the world. (I like Top Ten lists.. haha.. )

Turns out Friendster is at 15^th place. Wow, very updated, maintenance team.

Anyway, I’ve reproduce (and extracted) the list from Alexa.com, the web information company:

(the URLs are essentially the name of the site itself, so kinda redundant to put it there but I’ll just put it for fun.)

[Rankings are updated as at 12-10-07 - 5p.m. M’sian time]

The most popular websites in the World according to web traffic:

1. Yahoo! - - - - - - - - - - www.yahoo.com
2. Google - - - - - - - - - - www.google.com
3. Microsoft Network (MSN) - - - - - - - - - - www.msn.com
4. YouTube - - - - - - - - - - www.youtube.com
5. Windows Live - - - - - - - - - - www.live.com
6. Myspace - - - - - - - - - - www.myspace.com
7. Facebook - - - - - - - - - - www.facebook.com
8. Orkut - - - - - - - - - - www.orkut.com
9. Wikipedia - - - - - - - - - - www.wikipedia.org
10. Hi5 - - - - - - - - - - www.hi5.com

Some highlights:

§ One of my favourite sites, Baidu (www.baidu.com), is the 11^th most popular website in the world.

§ The website some of us visit almost everyday, Blogger.com (www.blogger.com), is at 13^th place.

§ EBay is at 20^th place.

§ Flickr at 29^th

§ IMDB at 30^th

§ Youporn.com at 50^th

§ Veoh.com at 79^th

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For Malaysia (refers to Malaysian users, not sites hosted in Malaysia) :

(URLs are not provided here as most of these sites are in the Global list. I guess we M’sians just like to follow what the world is doing. E.g. Roda Impian, Who Wants to be a Millionaire Malaysia, Malaysian Idol, etc, etc…)

The top ten are:

1. Yahoo!
2. Friendster (yes, Friendster, can’t believe M’sians love this so much)
3. Google.com.my (this is probably because we are automatically-direct against our wishes to Google M’sia when we type www.google.com)
4. YouTube
5. Google
6. Myspace
7. Windows Live
8. Microsoft Network (MSN)
9. Blogger.com
10. Wikipedia

Highlights (this list got more familiar names):

§ Facebook is at 11^th place

§ Cari Malaysia at 15^th. (cari.com.my)

§ Lowyat.NET @ 22^nd (lowyat.net)

§ Veoh at 23^rd

§ Crunchyroll.com – 29^th

§ AirAsia Berhad at 45^th (airasia.com)

§ and TM.net.my is at 57^th (many ppl modem problem??)

§ D-addicts.com @ 67^th (for Japanese and Korean drama fans)

§ Live Score @ 71^st place

§ Youporn at 87^th place.

Oh, btw, Maxis just beat Digi in the list, Maxis is @ 81^st, Digi at 82^nd.

Celcom is nowhere to be seen, and TM Touch (013) must be miles down the list.