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 | Web site startup: 1995-APR. | ||||||||||
| "ReligiousTolerance.org" domain registered: 1997-FEB-24 | ||||||||||
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| Traffic for the week ending 2007-DEC-08:
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| During the week ending 2007-SEP-29:
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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) |
| 8,074 for the official web site of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- popularly called the Mormons, a rapidly growing, conservative Christian denomination. (PR 7/6) |
| 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) |
| 75,572 for the official site of the United Methodist Church (PR ?/6) |
| 109,648 for the Willow Creek Association (PR ?/5) |
| 139,046 for the Institute of Religious Research (PR ?/4) |
| 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
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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.
Topics discussed in this section:
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| A list of the most popular essays on our web site. |
References:
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"Saturday most popular day of week to surf the web," at: http://statmarket.com/
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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.
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"Web Growth Summary," at: http://www.mit.edu/
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"May 2006 Web Server Survey," Netcraft, at: http://news.netcraft.com/
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PageRank icons courtesy of URLTrends at: http://www.urltrends.com/
Latest update: 2008-JAN-20
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