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Ok let me reword it differently: the 500,000th most popular site on these lists most likely isnt the 500,000th most visited and it might not even be in the top
by altdataseller 4y ago
Ok let me reword it differently: the 500,000th most popular site on these lists most likely isnt the 500,000th most visited and it might not even be in the top 5 million. These data sources are so bad at capturing popularity after 50k sites or so simply because they dont have enough data
- iruoy 4y agoI haven't tested this, but the "Cisco Umbrella 1 Million" is generated daily from DNS request made to the Cisco Umbrella DNS service. That seems to be a very good and recent dataset. It does count more than just visiting websites though. If all Windows computers query the IP of microsoft.com once a day that'll move them up quite a bit. And things in their top 10 like googleapis.com and doubleclick.net are obviously not visited directly. So while it is quite a reliable and recent dataset, it is not a good test of popularity.