Aug 25 2010I Spy Geekologie!: The Interweb Represented By Websites' Icons According To Popularity
Note: Highest-res version available HERE.
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
The folks that created the graphic actually have a pannable/zoomable version of the entire thing, along with a search engine that locates your favorite sites for you, so be sure to check it out after hitting the jump to see a zoom-in of Geekologie. Then go out and spread the good word of the GW so next year Geekologie's at least 209 x 209 pixels. Movin' up, baby -- all the way to #1. Look out, Goggle!
Hit the jump for Geekologie's headshot and a link to peruse the site yourself.
Icons of the Web [nmap]
Thanks to Matty and Zach, who agree Geekologie's icon should at least be as big as YouPr0n's (I thought you said you alternate between the two sites!).
Reader Comments
1. Meh - August 25, 2010 4:42 PM
Now make the mona lisa with all those icons
2. Joey - August 25, 2010 4:45 PM
Awesome to see Geekologie is visible, around as popular as Curse.
3. Frank van Vuuren - August 25, 2010 4:47 PM
YouPr0n +1
4. quaddmgtech - August 25, 2010 4:48 PM
Meh.
5. Tommy - August 25, 2010 4:57 PM
wow
6. Frolicking amongst the War Machines - August 25, 2010 5:11 PM
I see doubles. Mainly two giant, backwards "R"'s.
7. Abballo - August 25, 2010 5:19 PM
Yeah, look out Goggle!
8. ciao - August 25, 2010 5:21 PM
Funny that the majority of icons are red or blue.
9. Compound9 - August 25, 2010 5:58 PM
F the interwebs they are never going to be useful anyways that series of tubes is going to go away and every room in every house will have a microwave instead.
Way to go Geekologie looks like you have ~225 pixel death-grip on the net.
10. Compound9 - August 25, 2010 6:03 PM
Okay so it would be a 43,264 or 43,681 pixel death grip. But still Congrats, that is more influence than any of the rest of us tarded wonder monkeys have.
11. Cakeflourz - August 25, 2010 6:07 PM
Don't feel so bad, GW. Fordvehicles.com, Ford's offical site, is also 208x208. Not too damn bad if you ask me.
GW is as popular as Ford!!!
12. Chimaera - August 25, 2010 6:41 PM
now find 4chan
13. wes g - August 25, 2010 6:55 PM
cheer up GW! atleast youre bigger than "upper deck", some ugly blonde, a bee standing on two legs and a tacky christmas tree!
14. jaime - August 25, 2010 7:00 PM
much more popular than ICQ!
couldn't find you though
15. J-SIZZLE - August 25, 2010 7:16 PM
google? What's google?
16. manuel - August 25, 2010 7:20 PM
where's wally?
17. lynxeleopardo - August 25, 2010 7:20 PM
The Superfcial is got it bigger than Geekologie :p
18. Mason - August 25, 2010 7:34 PM
I give it 2 days before some mexican sees the face of Jesus in there somewhere......
19. BATTLESTAR999 - August 25, 2010 7:45 PM
@12 464X464
http://nmap.org/favicon/?q=4chan.org
20. M - August 25, 2010 8:00 PM
I still can't see Geekologie's logo in the map :( What section is it in?
21. ptitz - August 25, 2010 8:33 PM
yahoo is bogger than wikipedia? wut?
22. thumperchica - August 25, 2010 9:09 PM
ICQ is still around?
23. Zigzag - August 25, 2010 9:19 PM
Oooh. This is interesting. :D
24. Kestrel - August 25, 2010 9:57 PM
So Geekologie is bigger then amazon.
25. Whutwhut - August 25, 2010 10:15 PM
Even though it was obvious, I still really like how Google is the bastion here.
26. Toibot - August 25, 2010 11:26 PM
@20 http://nmap.org/favicon/?q=geekologie.com
27. rox - August 26, 2010 12:05 AM
are u serious? this is shit.
28. JJtoob - August 26, 2010 1:36 AM
OMG I see Jesus! And he's more popular than Geekologie. Sorry GW, but the man did invent dinos, so you gotta respect.
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30. PaPaJ - August 26, 2010 8:25 AM
Lies. There should be more porn.
31. search engine optimization services - August 26, 2010 11:19 AM
All this logos are really cool and become very famous due to the this branded companies. All this companies are also known with their logos that is catching attention of the users.
32. Storm - August 26, 2010 6:48 PM
Where the hell is 4chan?! Give me 4chan!!! It must be in the top 15.
33. Smilies - August 27, 2010 10:24 AM
@6
Those are region specific sites. Like Google and Google UK