The Asocial

Top 500 websites, filtered again

Checking the dynamics

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Article date November 6, 2016
Category internet

About a year ago we have filtered top 500 websites in order to get the trash out of the list, and observe what’s there on the internet. Now we are doing it again, and observing how it changes.

The filter criteria are roughly the same as before: no fraud, social networks, politics, pornography, country-specific and company websites, trading, heavy surveillance, and other kinds of crap. It is not guaranteed to be consistent with the last year’s list, since websites change, perception changes, and we could have missed some of those previously. This time we’ve got 31 website again – 6.2% that are tolerable:

# link changes
5 wikipedia.org ↑ 2
24 reddit.com ↑ 8
40 stackoverflow.com ↑ 18
52 imgur.com ↓ 6
53 github.com ↑ 22
55 imdb.com ↓ 6
88 wikia.com ↑ 16
133 thepiratebay.org
136 stackexchange.com ↑ 14
138 w3schools.com ↑ 66
151 deviantart.com ↑ 47
170 github.io ↑ 89
195 wikihow.com ↑ 10
216 weather.com ↓ 61
219 extratorrent.cc ↑ 95
228 wordreference.com ↑ 59
231 nih.gov ↓ 37
238 wikimedia.org same
246 archive.org ↓ 14
276 thesaurus.com ↑ 32
301 rarbg.to
332 goodreads.com ↓ 33
387 dictionary.com
395 yts.ag
408 sciencedirect.com
422 kickstarter.com ↓ 44
424 techcrunch.com ↑ 68
440 subscene.com
454 thefreedictionary.com ↓ 44
470 azlyrics.com
479 webmd.com ↓ 195

Sourceforget (268) and Gizmodo (488) weren’t included because they are meh. A few torrent trackers got KAT visitors after its takedown.

The Asocial is not in the top yet, and not actually in the ranking at all, but getting there.