# most popular web site? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 9, 2000, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-popular-web-site/6993 "2000-02-09T07:26:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2000, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-popular-web-site/6993/1 "2000-02-09T07:26:00Z")
A Wired article on hackers ( [http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,34203,00.html](http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,34203,00.html) ) referred to Yahoo as “Internet’s second most popular destination.” Does this mean someone keeps track on, say, the top 10 popular web sites? And what’s number 1? ---
**Author:** ![Andy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/aeb1de/32.png) [@Andy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2000, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-popular-web-site/6993/2 "2000-02-09T13:50:00Z")
Number one is apparently not [this](http://www.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/005615.html). ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2000, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-popular-web-site/6993/3 "2000-02-09T15:50:00Z")
Probably Microsoft, obviously. ---
**Author:** ![tanstaafl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@tanstaafl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanstaafl)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2000, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-popular-web-site/6993/4 "2000-02-09T16:33:00Z")
AOL. * * * “Drink your coffee! Remember, there are people sleeping in China.” [dennis@mountaindiver.com](mailto:dennis@mountaindiver.com) [www.mountaindiver.com](http://www.mountaindiver.com) ---
**Author:** ![techchick68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@techchick68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/techchick68)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2000, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-popular-web-site/6993/5 "2000-02-09T16:38:00Z")
AOL is reportedly the top site. But one must remember that since AOL is the largest internet provider (even thought it’s a content provider more than an ISP) the numbers become a little off. ---
**Author:** ![tanstaafl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@tanstaafl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanstaafl)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2000, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-popular-web-site/6993/6 "2000-02-09T22:21:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Does this mean someone keeps track on, say, the top 10 popular web sites? Yes, the company is Media Metrix ([www.mediametrix.com](http://www.mediametrix.com)). They track all kinds of things besides web sites. They base their rankings on the number of unique visitors to a web site per day/week/month/whatever. Their current top 10 sites (for the month of December) are: [list=1][li]AOL Network - Proprietary & WWW - 53,788,000 visitors[/li][li]Yahoo Sites - 42,361,000[/li][li]Microsoft Sites - 40,488,000[/li][li]Lycos - 30,348,000[/li][li]Excite@Home - 27,670,000[/li][li]Go Network - 21,348,000[/li][li]Amazon - 16,631,000[/li][li]NBC Internet - 14,928,000[/li][li][About.com](http://About.com) Sites - 12,612,000[/li][li]Time Warner Online - 12,235,000[/list=1][/li] Their entire list of the top 50 sites is at [http://www.mediametrix.com/PressRoom/Press\_Releases/01\_20\_00.html](http://www.mediametrix.com/PressRoom/Press_Releases/01_20_00.html) . They have the data split up about a dozen ways (at home vs. at work, US vs. non-US, etc.) I don’t see us on their list… Oh well, I assume we’re sitting at number 51, just off the bottom of their list. * * * “Drink your coffee! Remember, there are people sleeping in China.” [dennis@mountaindiver.com](mailto:dennis@mountaindiver.com) [www.mountaindiver.com](http://www.mountaindiver.com) ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-popular-web-site/6993/7 "2000-02-10T17:08:00Z")
That list says ‘Sites.’ Not ‘site.’ [aol.com](http://aol.com) gets more traffic than [microsoft.com](http://microsoft.com)? Strange, Cuz I only went to [aol.com](http://aol.com) once 😉 ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-popular-web-site/6993/8 "2000-02-10T17:17:00Z")
I think Yahoo is the most popular now, getting 10,000,000,000,000 hits since the beginning of the week. 😃 * * * What would Brian Boitano do / If he was here right now / He’d make a plan and he’d follow through / That’s what Brian Boitano would do. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-popular-web-site/6993/9 "2000-02-10T19:11:00Z")
It’s a little misleading since I think they count EVERYTHING under the [aol.com](http://aol.com) domain. That includes all AOL member sites. So if you’re going to yahoo, you’re just going there to use their search engine, email service, etc. If you’re going to aol, it could be any one of a million pages from a million different members. Kind of a shitty way to add things up, IMHO. * * * In the manned space program’s early days, NASA spent $1 million to develop a pen that wrote upside down. The Russians used a pencil. ---
**Author:** ![tanstaafl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@tanstaafl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanstaafl)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-popular-web-site/6993/10 "2000-02-10T19:33:00Z")
Yes, it is all sites belonging to Yahoo or whoever. If you followed the link I gave, they also have a list broken down by individual .coms (or .whatevers). [list=1][li][Yahoo.com](http://Yahoo.com) - 36,400,000 hits[/li][li][Msn.com](http://Msn.com) - 32,748,000[/li][li][Aol.com](http://Aol.com) - 29,345,000[/li][li][Microsoft.com](http://Microsoft.com) - 25,451,000[/li][li][Netscape.com](http://Netscape.com) - 21,708,000[/li][li][Geocities.com](http://Geocities.com) - 21,504,000[/li][li][Go.com](http://Go.com) - 18,853,000[/li][li][Bluemountainarts.com](http://Bluemountainarts.com) - 18,046,000[/li][li][Lycos.com](http://Lycos.com) - 17,902,000[/li][li][Passport.com](http://Passport.com) - 15,973,000[/list=1][/li] Keep in mind they are tracking web _sites_, not web _pages_. So, there may be thousands of pages under [members.aol.com](http://members.aol.com), but they are all part of the [aol.com](http://aol.com) site. * * * “Drink your coffee! Remember, there are people sleeping in China.” [dennis@mountaindiver.com](mailto:dennis@mountaindiver.com) [www.mountaindiver.com](http://www.mountaindiver.com) ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-popular-web-site/6993/11 "2000-02-10T22:10:00Z")
AWB, eTrade got more than that yesterday 🙂 Probably some high school kid went around updating computers for Y2K & added a little something extra. ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-popular-web-site/6993/12 "2000-02-10T22:11:00Z")
[Yahoo.com](http://Yahoo.com) - 36,400,000 hits [Msn.com](http://Msn.com) - 32,748,000 [Aol.com](http://Aol.com) - 29,345,000 [Microsoft.com](http://Microsoft.com) - 25,451,000 Microsoft + MSN= Microsoft 🙂 =#1