# Hey! straightdope.com made it to the list! We're bigger than I thought **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 27, 2010, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-straightdope-com-made-it-to-the-list-were-bigger-than-i-thought/551666 "2010-08-27T13:58:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-straightdope-com-made-it-to-the-list-were-bigger-than-i-thought/551666/1 "2010-08-27T13:58:47Z")
[Straightdope.com](http://Straightdope.com) makes it to the list of the [the top million websites](http://nmap.org/favicon/). The list takes the top million websites, and represents it in graphical format using the site’s favicon. [Google.com](http://Google.com), of course, dominates the picture. P.S. I am amazed! The SDMB People Pages site (nouilles.info) is on there too! :eek: Very tiny, it’s true, but it’s on there! P.P.S. I hate to beg, but if someone is a graphic artist and likes to design favicons, and can make a better favicon for the SDMB People Pages site, I would be eternally grateful. 🙂 Right now the favicon is “aw” for Arnold Winkelried, but a much better one would somehow include references to the Message Board without being a copy of the SD favicon. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-straightdope-com-made-it-to-the-list-were-bigger-than-i-thought/551666/2 "2010-08-27T14:17:08Z")
> [@Arnold\_Winkelried](#): > > [Straightdope.com](http://Straightdope.com) makes it to the list of the [the top million websites](http://nmap.org/favicon/). > > The list takes the top million websites, and represents it in graphical format using the site’s favicon. [Google.com](http://Google.com), of course, dominates the picture. > > P.S. I am amazed! The SDMB People Pages site (nouilles.info) is on there too! :eek: Very tiny, it’s true, but it’s on there! > > P.P.S. I hate to beg, but if someone is a graphic artist and likes to design favicons, and can make a better favicon for the SDMB People Pages site, I would be eternally grateful. 🙂 Right now the favicon is “aw” for Arnold Winkelried, but a much better one would somehow include references to the Message Board without being a copy of the SD favicon. This should be within your skills, **Arnold** (it’s not mine; I’m lucky if I can edit a prewritten CSS without errors) – but, after clearing it with **Ed** , use the SDMB logo with colors reversed. That’s a standard bit of heraldic graphic technique that traditionally means “related to but not an integral part of” visually and subliminally to the lay viewer. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-straightdope-com-made-it-to-the-list-were-bigger-than-i-thought/551666/3 "2010-08-27T14:39:10Z")
Thank you Polycarp! That is not a bad idea. I don’t know if the owners of the logo would go for it, but I could ask. Which reminds me - I would dearly love to have a picture of you and Skulldigger for the People Pages. I hate to sound like a broken record (I’m pretty sure I’ve asked you before), but where are your photos? ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-straightdope-com-made-it-to-the-list-were-bigger-than-i-thought/551666/4 "2010-08-27T17:10:39Z")
Sonuvabitch. My Disney site made it in, too! As did Teemings! ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-straightdope-com-made-it-to-the-list-were-bigger-than-i-thought/551666/5 "2010-08-27T17:19:17Z")
I see a “Jizz” favicon down there, but I’m frankly stunned that porn is not a more dominant presence. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-straightdope-com-made-it-to-the-list-were-bigger-than-i-thought/551666/6 "2010-08-27T19:38:06Z")
Probably because there is not one big porn site that attracts the vast majority of traffic, but rather a whole bunch of smaller (dare I say specialized?) sites. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-straightdope-com-made-it-to-the-list-were-bigger-than-i-thought/551666/7 "2010-08-27T19:40:45Z")
> [@Eutychus](#): > > Sonuvabitch. My Disney site made it in, too! As did Teemings! Your Disney Shorts site has a lot of information that can’t be found anywhere else, on a popular topic. I’m not surprised it’s there. I was more surprised that SD affiliated sites (like Teemings, or the People Pages) had enough traffic to be listed. Though, when I first saw the page, I wasn’t even sure if [straightdope.com](http://straightdope.com) would appear, I didn’t know if it was in the top million sites on the internet. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-straightdope-com-made-it-to-the-list-were-bigger-than-i-thought/551666/8 "2010-08-27T20:19:39Z")
Only in the top million? What rank is it exactly? That link doesn’t say. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-straightdope-com-made-it-to-the-list-were-bigger-than-i-thought/551666/9 "2010-08-27T21:43:26Z")
The website said it’s using Alexa traffic data. Apparently there’s a website called Alexa that ranks sites based on how many visitors you get. I went here: [Alexa Top Sites](http://www.alexa.com/topsites) and found these numbers: Site Information for [straightdope.com](http://straightdope.com) Alexa Traffic Rank: 8,036 Traffic Rank in US: 2,342 Sites Linking In: 4,166 Site Information for nouilles.info Alexa Traffic Rank: 222,264 Traffic Rank in US: 68,325 Sites Linking In: 18 OK, I need to do a lot more work before I can beat Facebook, but I showed up in the big picture of favicons that someone created (see the OP) so I’m still going to brag about it. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-straightdope-com-made-it-to-the-list-were-bigger-than-i-thought/551666/10 "2010-08-27T21:48:05Z")
I see the RedTube logo!