Top web sites plotted in a subway-style map

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Top web sites plotted in a subway-style map

by Brad Linder Jul 20th 2007

Information Architects has put together a remarkable map of the "top 200 mos successful websites" arranged by category, popularity, and other characteristics.

The map is available as a desktop background, a PDF file, a OSX screensaver, or as a clickable online map. Scroll your mouse over various sites to get a thumbnail preview, or click to go through to the source sites.

This is actually the second version of the map. The Web Trendmap 1.0 lacked a few of the features of the new map:

More websites have been added including some Japanese, German, and Chinese sites.
The lines have been renamed and streamlined for Sharing, Tools, Tech, etc.
A trend forecast has been added
Sites have been labeled Web 0.5, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, and 2.5.

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Tags: graphic, information architects, InformationArchitects, subway map, SubwayMap, web 2.0, Web2.0

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Ranking Peru said 7:35AM on 7-21-2007

Very interesting indeed. I've long created one called "Ranking de las Top Webs Peruanas", which is the same but focused only on my country, Peru. It displays current rank, position in the world rank, as well as changes from month to month:
http://www.universidadperu.com/ranking-webs-peruanas.php

ikebowen said 9:10AM on 7-22-2007

Yep. It's a series of tubes.

robert said 7:29AM on 8-09-2007

other map based on the websites world classification carried out by Alexa and ComScore. The websites traffic is correlated with the surface of the countries:
http://explomap.free.fr/world_web_map.html

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