URL Fan: A Great Resource To Look For Top Websites

URL Fan URL Fan: A Great Resource To Look For Top Websites

URL Fan is a profiling website that provides the internet users with comprehensive influence index of the most popular websites on the web. The primary criteria employed by URL Fan for determining the importance of a website, is the amount of times a website is mentioned on blogs across the internet.

Although, there are several websites on the web, such as Alexa and Compete to also provide similar statistics, but in comparison to URL Fan, these two service are quite different, as they measure the websites’ traffic density and on the other hand URL Fan measures the importance of the websites on various blogs.

As of now URL Fan is providing ranks to 3,783,534, by monitoring 302,436,295 blog posts from 5,958,147 blog feeds. Although, URL Fan concentrates primarily on blogging websites, it makes more sense, as social networking websites, including blogging ones have gained immense popularity over time and some are even in the process of gaining more popularity than conventional websites. A fine example of this new trend would be exponential reputation growth of the social networking giant, Facebook.

In URL Fan’s last prominent websites list, that was released in November, in the year 2008, following websites, witnessed themselves on top of the stack: