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Friday, 9th July 2010

100% Interesting! Visualize "Long Tail" Using Graphs from Royal Pingdom & What Does it Take to Be the Number One Site in the World?

From The Guardian:

Using data from Google's top 1000 sites list, Royal Pingdom have put together this fascinating graphic showing just what it takes to make it to the top of the internet pile.

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Altogether, the top 10 websites attract 2.78bn visitors per month - that's 42% of all visitors to the top 100.

From the Royal Pingdom Blog:

Everyone knows that the really big and popular websites have a ton of visitors. But how many? How much does it take to reach the top?

We were curious about this ourselves. We’ve all seen the almost absurd numbers involved with the very top sites (like Facebook), but what about website number 50, or 100, or 500? What does it take for a website, in terms of visitors, to reach such a ranking?

A while back Google released a list of the 1,000 most-visited websites on the Internet, including estimates of how many worldwide visitors those websites have each month. We used this list as a basis for this little study.

Key findings

There are some very revealing patterns that emerge when you look at this many websites at once, but before we go ahead and show you those, here are a few key findings:

To become a top 1,000 website you need at least 4.1 million visitors per month.

To become a top 500 website you need at least 7.4 million visitors per month.

To become a top 100 website you need at least 22 million visitors per month.

To become a top 50 website you need at least 41 million visitors per month.

To become a top 10 website you need at least 230 million visitors per month.

To become the number 1 website in the world? Then you need more than 540 million visitors per month. (Good luck with that.)

Facebook is the site behind that last number.

And just to be clear, whenever we say “visitors” in this article, we mean unique visitors.

Graphs:

+ Monthly Unique Visitors for Top 100 Sites

+ Monthly Unique Visitors for Top 1000 Sites

Source: Royal Pingdom

See Also: Google 1000 List (via ResourceShelf, June 2, 2010

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