Category: Input
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Top 50 Websites in the U.S.
That is, the top 54 websites according to Alexa on June 28th, 2011, minus technical/non-user sites at #34 and #41 and adult sites at #43 and #50.
The only surprise on this list might be Myspace’s continued presence. For a dying website, it still makes the top 50, out of, you know, over 100,000,000 active sites. But also of note is the quick and dramatic drop-off in reach, or the estimated percentage of internet users visiting a site. While Google racked up 52% and Facebook 43% reach yesterday, a great many in this grouping didn’t break 2%.
Wonder what this would look like broken out by owner…Update: This is what it looks like.
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Top 50 Websites in the World
That is, the top 50 sites according to Google’s DoubleClick Ad Planner for April 2011. There are many other measures.
Anyway, this is global, so there’s very likely some sites you haven’t seen before. For non-English pages, you can click on the favicon for the translated version, but you’ll shortchange yourself if you skip the original…
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Population Density (or, What a Difference a Scale Makes)
The year, 1994. The world’s population, 5.6 billion. How bunched up were we then?
Plenty of room to breathe, right? But where is everyone else?
Suddenly it’s getting a little crowded in here, particularly considering most of the grey area is quite inhospitable. Thankfully there’s no one around to call us an invasive species.
Other population density info:
- 2003 Population Density Map
- Wikipedia entry w/2006 country-level data
- Population Density Stats by country/territory
- U.S. Population Density by City and State
- And for reference, Historical/Projected World Population 1950-2050
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The Necessities –> Water –> Drought
- Global Drought Monitor – University College London Department of Space and Climate Physics
- U.S. Drought Portal – National Integrated Drought Information System
U.S. Drought Monitor Drought Impact Reporter - Other drought info/coverage
