I have updated the computing sites popularity ranking, based on both alexa.com and quantcast.com.
The whole report nicely formatted in HTML is here: http://xahlee.org/lang_traf/lang_sites.html The following is a summary of some highlights. the relative popularity of the following sites is roughly this: sun.com java.com php.net slashdot.com Mysql.com gnu.org wolfram.com Python.org cpan.org xahlee.org Perl.org Perl.com paulgraham.com haskell.org novig.com emacswiki.org franz.com lispworks.com Gigamonkeys.com schemers.org This is just sites i'm familiar or used to or comes to mind. There are of course many other popularly used computing sites. Alexa's data is more reliable than quantcast. Quantcast often has very bad info as of current. However, alexa's data does not seems reliable in some absolute sense. The one question that puzzles me is why gnu.org is ranked so high, since as far as i know it isn't that much of a active site for news, blog, wiki, or anything. The only reason i can think of is that lots of software points to it for the GPL, but this can't explain all. Note that adding together the traffic of cpan.org, perl.com, perl.org, they are about a bit higher than python.org, as expected. I'm not clear what's the relative popularity of sun.com, java.com, and php.com. Before alexa changed their ranking algorithm recently, php.net is ranked high above sun.com (a ranking of 500 vs 900), but now alexa shows that sun.com has about 10 times more visitors than php.net. Quantcast's data on these 3 sites is more bewilding. For example, it estimates that java.com has 5 million unique visitors per month, while giving sun.com 1.5 M only, and php only 78 k. I think quantcast's data here is quite fuckd. Xah [EMAIL PROTECTED] ∑ http://xahlee.org/ ☄ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
