The ten most popular search keywords were: abortion, Hinduism,
Buddhism, Wicca, Scientology, capital punishment, Judaism, Confucianism, 10
commandments, euthanasia.
Sponsored link:
Other religious web sites:
Each web site has two important ranking associated with it:
Web ranking: This is a number that ranges from 1 to in excess of
155 million, and indicates the "popularity" of a site. On 2008-JAN-09,
Ranking.com reported the web ranking by
traffic for the most popular million web sites. Google, the most popular site,
is #1; MSN is #2.
PageRank: This is a number created by
Google for most web sites. Its value ranges
from 0 to 10, and represents Google's view of the importance of the page.
PageRank is reported by iwebtool.com
and many other websites.
Listed below are a few religious and secular web sites. The highlighted number
is the site's web ranking as of 2007-JAN. The first PageRank figure is for early 2007; the second figure shows
the early 2008 value.
1 for Google.com(Google Page rank: ?/10)
2 for MSN.com (PR ?/8)
3 for Yahoo.com (PR ?/9)
27 for CNN (PR ?/9)
.....
1,087 for Beliefnet
an amazing web site -- the largest spiritual web
site on the Internet. They are independent and not affiliated with any
spiritual organization or movement. (Google Page rank 7/6). *
6,783 for GodTube.com, a social networking website for
conservative Christians. (PR -/5)
8,469 for this site, ReligiousTolerance.org. (PR 7/4). Ranking.com lists us as #1 in its category
of Faiths and Practices.
19,647 for the Southern Baptist
Conference's official web site. They are the largest Christian
denomination in the U.S., and one of the most conservative. (PR 7/7)
20,340 for the official web site of the Vatican, the headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church, representing about half of the Christians in the
world. (PR 8/7)
164,855 for the United Pentecostal Church International. (PR ?/5)
289,535 for Sojourners an
evangelical Christian web site promoting social justice. (PR 8/6)
This web site's
rating had been:
. However, on
2008-JAN-09, it dropped to
. 5 We believe that this massive
overnight reduction may be due to Google's distaste for text ads unrelated to the content
of the pages on which they appear. We have this type of ad on fewer than 1% of our
pages, but that is sufficient. There are rumors that Google is downgrading all sites with such ads to a PageRank of 4 or 5.
Ranking of this web site:
When we started this web site in 1995-APR, there were only about 20,000 other
sites on the Internet.
According to Netcraft, there were 155.2 million websites as of the end of
2007-DEC. 4
On 2005-FEB-06, Ranking.com ranked this web site as #4,897 in terms of
traffic. This placed us in the top 0.006%
of the Internet. By early 2008-JAN, we were in the top 0.0055%. Our ranking varies greatly during the year. The current value
is:
Alexa,� a service of
Amazon.com, also ranks traffic,
and typically gives a very different reading:
Needless to say, we prefer Ranking.com's data. ;-)
This graph of traffic rank is supplied by Amazon.com. It clearly shows the
weekly variation in our traffic. It also can show temporary reductions in
traffic over Christmas time, and during the summertime.
This graph by QuantCast.com shows the number of unique visitors to our site per month
during the past six months:
If you want to obtain still more information about our
web site, go to http://religioustolerance.org/wusage/
The daily and weekly reports generated by the Wusage program, Version 7.1 are available there.
. However, on
2008-JAN-09, it dropped to
.
5 We believe that this massive
overnight reduction may be due to Google's distaste for text ads unrelated to the content
of the pages on which they appear. We have this type of ad on fewer than 1% of our
pages, but that is sufficient. There are rumors that Google is downgrading all sites with such ads to a PageRank of 4 or 5.
