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The Interweb Represented By Websites' Icons According To Popularity
Topic Started: Mar 25 2011, 02:21 PM (1,078 Views)
Mastil
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http://www.geekologie.com/2010/08/25/the-web-full.jpg

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This is a picture of the internet as represented by the icons of the most visited websites, with each icon's size depending on how popular the particular site is (specifically, the site's reach). For example, Geekologie's icon is 208 x 208 pixels. SMALL ICON IS TOO SMALL.

A large-scale scan of the top million web sites (per Alexa traffic data) was performed in early 2010 using the Nmap Security Scanner and its scripting engine.

We retrieved each site's icon by first parsing the HTML for a link tag and then falling back to /favicon.ico if that failed. 328,427 unique icons were collected, of which 288,945 were proper images. The remaining 39,482 were error strings and other non-image files. Our original goal was just to improve our http-favicon.nse script, but we had enough fun browsing so many icons that we used them to create the visualization below.

The area of each icon is proportional to the sum of the reach of all sites using that icon. When both a bare domain name and its "www." counterpart used the same icon, only one of them was counted. The smallest icons--those corresponding to sites with approximately 0.0001% reach--are scaled to 16x16 pixels. The largest icon (Google) is 11,936 x 11,936 pixels, and the whole diagram is 37,440 x 37,440


now, the only question remains; where the bloody friggin hell are we?
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Mastil
Mar 25 2011, 02:21 PM
now, the only question remains; where the bloody friggin hell are we?
http://nmap.org/favicon/?q=zetaboards.com

A bit to the right of YouTube.
Edited by Fission, Mar 25 2011, 02:58 PM.
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That's so awesome.
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AND I'M JAVERT
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Fernicia
Mar 25 2011, 03:32 PM
That's so awesome.
That's so true.

Fission, you beat me to it, though I was just going to ask. :P

...Still can't find it on the main picture, though. :(
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I haven't seen this thing in a while. It's still interesting, though. :)

We're just off the right of YouTube, near the top. Zoom in a bit and find the Mario mushroom; immediately to the right of that is us.
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Found us!!!


But my question is... where is 4chan? Lolll.
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http://nmap.org/favicon/?q=4chan.org

To the right of the Microsoft logo's bottom right corner.
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Mar 25 2011, 05:34 PM
http://nmap.org/favicon/?q=4chan.org

To the right of the Microsoft logo's bottom right corner.
Haha, they made that when Sun still existed. ;)
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