A map that visualizes the scale and relevance of various websites existing on the Internet "The Internet map"

There are various websites on the Internet,The number of websites exceeded 100 million in 2006, Furthermore in 2008Google has exceeded 1 trillion number of unique URLs on the webIt was clarifying that. We visualized the size and mutual relationships of websites that exist as many as the number of stars on such a net, and mapped "The Internet map"is.

The Internet map
http://internet-map.net/


A project called "The Internet map" is a project to visualize and show the relative relationships of websites existing on the Internet indefinitely. All websites are circled on the map, the size of the circle is the site'strafficRepresents the quantity. In The Internet map, we are investigating how many people are viewing websitesAlexaIt creates maps based on the data published by the company and maps over 350,000 websites in 196 countries.

In addition, circles displayed on the map differ in color from country to country where the website is used, for example, Russian site if red, China is yellow, purple is Japan, light blue is rough It seems as if the influence figure on the Internet for each country is represented.


There are Japan (purple) and Brazil (yellow) in the lower right of the map, but there is a huge porn related site group in most of the country's Internet power figure in the red circle zone during that, how porn You can see if the momentum of the related site is terrible.


Looking at the whole map of such a map again looks like this.


Purple Maru in this lower right is the website of Japan.


Among them, clicking the biggest size circle boasts the best traffic in JapanYahoo! JAPANwas.According to Alexa, The traffic volume of Yahoo! JAPAN is number one in Japan, and it is said that it is ranked 19th even if it sees it all over the world. Furthermore, up to the figure that 3.269% of the Internet users all over the world visited this site, it is displayed.


Since a lot of sites are displayed on the map, if you want to see the site of your choice on the map, in the text box on the upper right of the screen,hostnameIf you enter, OK.


Then the circle where the host name of the site was written appeared like this.


Click on this site to see site introductions and traffic rankings by country / world.


This is Japanese Amazon.


Near thisRebuilt dot comYa


Official Sitethere is. The more the number of links between websites is the more the positional relationship between websites, the more websites will be displayed closer.


Knowing this,Nico Nico DougaJust to the sideYuruyuriIt is not convincing even though the official website of the company is being displayed ... It seems like it can not be done.


Some websites may be deeply connected with websites of various countries.


Amazon also has Amazon.com (Www.amazon.com) And Amazon.co.jp (Www.amazon.co.jpIt has a different host name. However, Twitter (Twitter.com) Or Facebook (Www.facebook.com), There are places that do not have sites with individual host names by country, and in the case of such websites they are not displayed in the Japanese area but are displayed in the US area in the middle of the map.


Furthermore boasts the traffic volume of China No. 1BaiduAnd ...


Google Hong KongAs you can see various websites on the map, you can see the surprising relationship between the sites.