# First Open Ranking of the World Wide Web **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 12, 2014, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-open-ranking-of-the-world-wide-web/681195 "2014-02-12T22:50:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-open-ranking-of-the-world-wide-web/681195/1 "2014-02-12T22:50:46Z")
The Laboratory for Web Algorithmics of the Università degli studi di Milano together with the Data and Web Science Group of the University of Mannheim have put together the first entirely open ranking of more than 100 million sites of the Web. The number one site is YouTube, the second Wikipedia, and the third Twitter [http://wwwranking.webdatacommons.org/](http://wwwranking.webdatacommons.org/) I checked my website which doesn’t have a ranking in Alexa and found my site ranks higher than 73 million sites–with less than 27 million sites ranking higher than mine! ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-open-ranking-of-the-world-wide-web/681195/2 "2014-02-12T22:55:18Z")
[Straightdope.com](http://Straightdope.com) is 4209, to save everyone else from checking. Weirdly, though, [boards.straightdope.com](http://boards.straightdope.com) is 1373765. No idea how that works. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-open-ranking-of-the-world-wide-web/681195/3 "2014-02-13T08:51:03Z")
Woohoo! My site is 241,548 - which, out of 101,717,775 items, places it in the top one quarter of one percent! ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-open-ranking-of-the-world-wide-web/681195/4 "2014-02-13T11:18:22Z")
Interesting (to me anyway) #1 thru #4, sure, who hasn’t heard of them? But at #5 is [wordpress.org](http://wordpress.org). Um, sorry, never heard of it? (And no, I don’t require someone to jump in here and explain it to me. I’m just observing…) ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-open-ranking-of-the-world-wide-web/681195/5 "2014-02-13T11:46:33Z")
Wordpress is a blogging platform - a significant number of personal and small business blogs are hosted on it (so although it’s one domain name, it’s not really one website) ---
**Author:** ![PlainLost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ac8455/32.png) [@PlainLost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainLost)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-open-ranking-of-the-world-wide-web/681195/6 "2014-02-13T13:21:25Z")
And who goes on CreativeCommons? I think It’s there just because a lot of sites linked to it. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-open-ranking-of-the-world-wide-web/681195/7 "2014-02-13T13:31:33Z")
> [@PlainLost](#): > > And who goes on CreativeCommons? > I think It’s there just because a lot of sites linked to it. More than likely - this ranking is based on inbound link scoring - and anyone who publishes stuff asserting a CC licence (which is a lot), will include links to CreativeCommons ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-open-ranking-of-the-world-wide-web/681195/8 "2014-02-13T14:47:15Z")
So what’s “[Global Multimedia Protocols Group](http://gmpg.org/)”? It’s at 23 overall, and number one for PageRank. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-open-ranking-of-the-world-wide-web/681195/9 "2014-02-13T15:03:52Z")
My website is… not there. I’m invisible! (And I use Creative Commons a lot, when I’m looking for pictures to use freely in projects.) ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-open-ranking-of-the-world-wide-web/681195/10 "2014-02-13T17:45:22Z")
Yay! I’m #1,588,257 🙂 > [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > So what’s “[Global Multimedia Protocols Group](http://gmpg.org/)”? It’s at 23 overall, and number one for PageRank. Apparently they go in for “Connecting people through incremental simplicity.” 😕 And they get a better PageRank than Google itself. Mind you, so does [http://promodj.com/](http://promodj.com/). 😕 ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-open-ranking-of-the-world-wide-web/681195/11 "2014-02-13T17:51:35Z")
… nm … ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-open-ranking-of-the-world-wide-web/681195/12 "2014-02-13T17:53:30Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > More than likely - this ranking is based on inbound link scoring Which explains the SD’s ranking versus the MB. It seems that around half of the SD’s articles are linked to from Wikipedia which probably increases the SD’s rank a lot from just that one link. ---
**Author:** ![tonyfop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/85f322/32.png) [@tonyfop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tonyfop)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-open-ranking-of-the-world-wide-web/681195/13 "2014-02-13T18:05:47Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > [Straightdope.com](http://Straightdope.com) is 4209, to save everyone else from checking. Weirdly, though, [boards.straightdope.com](http://boards.straightdope.com) is 1373765. No idea how that works. When I want to engage my brain, I come here. When I want some dumb laughs, I frequent [peopleofwalmart.com](http://peopleofwalmart.com). They came in at 4275. I am happy, but surprised, that the SD ranks higher. Faith in humanity made a slight uptick today…🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-open-ranking-of-the-world-wide-web/681195/14 "2014-02-13T20:22:54Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > [Straightdope.com](http://Straightdope.com) is 4209, to save everyone else from checking. Weirdly, though, [boards.straightdope.com](http://boards.straightdope.com) is 1373765. No idea how that works. Well, they are two completely different sites. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-open-ranking-of-the-world-wide-web/681195/15 "2014-02-13T20:50:43Z")
I am surprised I did not see any porn sites in the top 50. That wouldn’t have been true 10 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-open-ranking-of-the-world-wide-web/681195/16 "2014-02-13T22:19:25Z")
> [@xizor](#): > > I am surprised I did not see any porn sites in the top 50. That wouldn’t have been true 10 years ago. In terms of inbound links? I think it might have been. This isn’t about _traffic_. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-open-ranking-of-the-world-wide-web/681195/17 "2014-02-13T22:30:44Z")
> [@njtt](#): > > In terms of inbound links? I think it might have been. This isn’t about _traffic_. The other thing is, does any single porn site really dominate? There are many porn sites. I wouldn’t even want to guess how many. And while porn in general is clearly high on the list of most hit categories, those hits are diffused over many, many different sites. So I’m not surprised no single porn site is particularly high. ---
**Author:** ![JpnDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@JpnDude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JpnDude)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2014, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-open-ranking-of-the-world-wide-web/681195/18 "2014-02-14T07:38:47Z")
Wow, my domain is in the 80,000 range. Is that good or bad? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2014, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-open-ranking-of-the-world-wide-web/681195/19 "2014-02-14T08:39:17Z")
Unless you’re trying to hide from the rest of the web, it’s pretty good. - you’re in the top 1/10th of 1 percent in the ranking.