Top 500 websites, filtered

Alexa is a filthy human web trafficking company that measures popularity of websites. As a side effect, we may observe which sites are the most popular in its top 500 (creepy content warning: the website features photos of diverse healthy-looking-yet-unattractive people with fake smiles, and is not optimized for desktop computers).

Argumentum ad populum would suggest that those sites should be good in some way. Though that argument is a fallacy (and even The Best Page In The Universe is not in that list), it still might be interesting to see what internet is made of, and to check whether you are missing something big and nice. We have excluded trash websites, such as news/politics/propaganda, fraud, those with heavy surveillance, social networks, porn, trading, country-specific and company websites, in order to see it more clearly. Ended up with 31 website out of the initial 500 – a few of which are blocked in China and Russia, by the way (apparently considered being too good to be legal). Here they are: