Scott Vivian created an overview of domains with a PageRank of 9 and 10. He argues that once such an overview was available on Wikipedia, but that it was deleted… so he wanted to recreate this info because he found it to be “a great resource.” Scott explains that many of the high-PR pages were found by googling for http, www, the, a and similar keywords.
The PageRank 10 list includes many old favorites, like the following (note: those services which get you to include a backlink button are often ending up high in these charts):
- Adobe.com
- FirstGov.gov
- Google.com
- Real.com
- W3.org
- StatCounter.com
The PageRank 9 list is much larger (I guess the quantity grows exponentially with a lower PR). Here’s an excerpt:
- A9.com
- About.com
- ACM.org
- AlltheWeb.com
- AltaVista.com
- Excite.com
What’s interesting to note is that the PR9 list includes many “old time” sites which are almost irrelevant today, like AltaVista. I suspect this either means that a) a lot of people are truly still loyal to these old sites, b) these pages are often linked to when discussing their historical importance, or that c) there’s simply loads of links from deserted websites which Google still values in current PageRank-updates. And that brings up the question of whether Google might not be better off if it lowers the “l(fā)ink weight” of the lost & forgotten part of the web…
Here is the whole list:
PageRank 10
- Adobe.com - Adobe Systems, software company
- Apple.com - Apple Computer, also houses the iTunes Music Store
- Blogger.com - Blogger, a weblog publishing tool
- CSAIL - MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (*)
- Energy.gov - United States Department of Energy
- ERCIM.org - European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (*)
- FirstGov.gov - U.S. government portal
- Google.com - Google, search engine that assigns PageRank
- Keio.ac.jp - Keio University, Tokyo, Japan (*)
- Macromedia.com - Macromedia, software company
- NASA.gov - NASA, U.S. government agency for the space program and aerospace research
- NSF.gov - National Science Foundation, U.S. government agency for scientific research
- NYTimes.com New York Times, news site
- Real.com - RealPlayer, music, video, games
- StatCounter.com - tracking service
- W3.org - World Wide Web Consortium
- WebStandards.org - Web Standards Project
- Whitehouse.gov - The White House
(*): These websites are linked from W3.org, which automatically gave them a PageRank of 10, even if they do not have much traffic or incoming links.
PageRank 9
- A9.com - A9.com, search engine
- AAAS.org - American Association for the Advancement of Science
- About.com - About.com, portal
- ACM.org - Association for Computing Machinery
- AlltheWeb.com - AlltheWeb, search engine
- AltaVista.com - AltaVista, search engine
- AMS.org - American Mathematical Society
- Amazon.com (redirect) - Amazon.com, shopping site
- AOL.com - America Online, portal
- Apache.org - Apache Software Foundation, open-source software
- APS.org - American Physical Society
- Archive.org - Internet Archive
- Arizona.edu - University of Arizona
- ArXiv.org - ArXiv.org e-print archive
- ASU.edu - Arizona State University
- BarnesAndNoble.com - Barnes & Noble, bookseller
- BBC.co.uk - British Broadcasting Corporation
- Berkeley.edu - University of California, Berkeley
- BlackwellPublishing.com - publisher
- Bloglines.com - Bloglines, web-based news aggregator
- Borders.com - Borders Group, bookseller
- Boston.com - The Boston Globe, news site
- Britannica.com - Encyclopædia Britannica
- Brown.edu - Brown University
- BU.edu - Boston University
- BusinessWire.com - Business Wire, news distribution service
- CareerBuilder.com (redirect)
- Cam.ac.uk - Cambridge University
- Cars.com - car site
- CBC.ca - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- CDC.gov - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Cell.com - articles on biology, biochemistry, cancer research
- CERN.ch - CERN
- CIES.org - Council for International Exchange of Scholars
- Cisco.com - Cisco Systems
- CMU.edu - Carnegie Mellon University
- CNET.com - Cnet, technology portal
- CNRS.fr - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
- Colorado.edu - University of Colorado at Boulder
- Columbia.edu - Columbia University
- Commerce.gov - Department of Commerce
- Computer.org - IEEE Computer Society
- Copyright.gov - U.S. Copyright Office
- Cornell.edu - Cornell University
- CPAN.org - Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
- CreativeCommons.org - Creative Commons
- C-SPAN.org - C-SPAN, Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network
- CVSHome.org (https) - Concurrent Versions System
- Debian.org - Debian, open-source operating system
- Disney.com
- DHHS.gov - Department of Health and Human Services
- DHS.gov/dhspublic/ - Department of Homeland Security
- DMOZ.org - Open Directory Project
- DOC.gov - Department of Commerce
- DOI.gov - U.S. Department of the Interior
- DOL.gov - U.S. Department of Labor
- Duke.edu - Duke University
- EB.com - Encyclopædia Britannica online
- eBay.com - EBay, auction site
- Economist.com - news site
- Ed.gov - U.S. Department of Education
- Elsevier.com - Elsevier, publisher of scientific and medical literature
- EnergyStar.gov - Energy Star
- EPA.gov - Environmental Protection Agency
- ETHZ.ch - ETH Zurich, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
- ErekAlert.org - science news site
- Excite.com - Excite, portal
- Expedia.com - Expedia, online travel agency
- FDA.gov - Food and Drug Administration
- Freshmeat.net - Freshmeat, cross-platform software directory
- FSU.edu - Florida State University
- FT.com - Financial Times
- FTC.gov - Federal Trade Commission
- FWS.gov - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
- GameSpot.com - GameSpot
- GAO.gov - Government Accountability Office
- GetNetWise.org - Information for dealing with common internet problems
- Gnome.org - GNOME, desktop for Unix operating systems
- GNU.org - GNU Project
- Grants.gov - unified site for interaction between grant applicants and the U.S. federal agencies that manage grant funds
- Guardian.co.uk - Guardian, British news site
- Harvard.edu - Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA
- HUJI.ac.il - Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
- HHMI.org - Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- HON.ch - Health On the Net Foundation
- House.gov - U.S. House of Representatives
- HP.com - Hewlett-Packard
- HTMLHelp.com - Information on web authoring
- IBM.com - International Business Machines
- IRCA.org - International Register of Certificated Auditors
- IEEE.org - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- IETF.org - Internet Engineering Task Force
- IIE.org - Institute of International Education
- IMDb.com - Internet Movie Database
- Indiana.edu - Indiana University system
- Inria.fr - INRIA, French national research institution
- Intel.com - Intel Corporation
- Internet.com - Internet and IT news site, owned by Jupitermedia Corporation
- internet2.edu - Internet2
- IOM.edu - Institute of Medicine
- Java.com - Java programming language
- JHU.edu - Johns Hopkins University
- KDE.org - K Desktop Environment
- Linux.com - Linux Operating System
- LiveJournal.com - LiveJournal
- LOC.gov - Library of Congress
- Lycos.com - Lycos.com, portal
- MamboServer - Mambo, open-source PHP content management system
- MapQuest.com - MapQuest
- Microsoft.com - Microsoft Corporation, computer software company
- MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- MovableType.org - Movable Type, commercial Perl weblog
- Mozilla.org - Mozilla, open-source internet tools
- MozillaZine.org - MozillaZine
- MSN.com - MSN.com, portal
- MSNBC.com - MSNBC.com, portal
- MSU.edu - Michigan State University
- MySQL.com - MySQL, open-source database engine
- NAP.edu - National Academies Press
- NAS.edu - National Academy of Sciences
- NationalAcademies.org
- NationalGeographic.com - National Geographic
- Nature.com - Nature Publishing Group
- NCAA.org - National Collegiate Athletic Association
- Nedstatbasic.com - tracking service
- NetObjects.com
- Netscape.com - Netscape, portal
- NewScientist - New Scientist, science magazine
- NewsForge.com - NewsForge
- NIH.gov - National Institutes of Health
- NIST.gov - National Institute of Standards and Technology
- NOAA.gov - National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
- NobelPrize.org - Nobel Prize
- NPR.org - National Public Radio
- NPS.gov - National Park Service
- NREL.gov - National Renewable Energy Laboratory
- Oanda.com - Currency conversion site
- OpenSource.org - open source
- Opera.com - Opera (web browser), proprietary web browser
- Oracle.com - Oracle Corporation, software company
- Oreilly.com - O’reilly, computer bookseller
- ORNL.gov - Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- OSTG.com - Open Source Technology Group
- OUP.co.uk - Oxford University Press
- OX.ac.uk - University of Oxford
- PayPal.com - PayPal
- PBS.org - Public Broadcasting Station
- Perl.com - Perl, scripting language
- PHP.net - PHP, web scripting language
- phpBB.com - phpBB, open-source PHP bulletin board system
- Pitt.edu - University of Pittsburgh
- Plone.org - Plone, open source content management system
- Princeton.edu - Princeton University
- PSU.edu - Pennsylvania State University
- Python.org - Python Programming Language
- Ranchero.com/netnewswire/
- RealNetworks.com - RealNetworks
- Realplayer.com
- RedHat.com - Red Hat
- Regulations.gov - portal for federal rulemaking
- Reuters.com (redirect) - Reuters
- Ruby-Lang.org - Ruby programming language
- Rutgers.edu - Rutgers University
- Sandia.gov - Sandia National Laboratories
- ScienceDirect.com - ScienceDirect
- ScienceMag.com - Science Magazine
- Section508.gov - Section 508 Amendment to the Rehabilitation Act of 1973
- Senate.gov - U.S. Senate
- SI.edu - Smithsonian Institution
- Slashdot.org - Slashdot, technology news site
- SourceForge.Net - Sourceforge, a directory of open-source development projects
- Stanford.edu - Stanford University, California, USA
- State.gov - U.S. Department of State
- State.tx.gov - Texas portal
- StudyWeb.com
- Sun.com - Sun Microsystems
- ThinkGeek.com - ThinkGeek
- Topica.com
- TripAdvisor.com - TripAdvisor
- TRUSTe.org
- UCDavis.edu - University of California, Davis
- UCI.edu - University of California, Irvine
- UCL.ac.uk - University College London
- UCSB.edu - University of California, Santa Barbara
- UIUC.edu - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- UMD.edu - University of Maryland, College Park
- UMich.edu - University of Michigan
- UMN.edu - University of Minnesota
- UN.org - United Nations
- Unesco.org - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
- Unicode.org - Unicode
- UPenn.edu - University of Pennsylvania
- USAJobs.opm.gov - federal government’s official jobs site
- USAToday.com - USAToday, news site
- USC.edu - University of Southern California
- USDA.gov - U.S. Department of Agriculture
- URGS.gov - U.S. Geological Survey
- USPTO.org - U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
- UTexas.edu - University of Texas at Austin
- UToronto.ca - University of Toronto
- VeriSign.com - VeriSign
- Virginia.edu - University of Virginia
- Vlib.org - World Wide Web Virtual Library
- Washington.edu - University of Washington
- WashingtonPost.com - The Washington Post, news site
- Watchfire.com
- Weather.com - The Weather Channel
- WHO.int - World Health Organization
- Wikipedia.org - Wikipedia
- Windowsmediaplayer.com
- WinZip.com - WinZip, commercial archive utility
- Wired.com - Wired.com, news site
- Wisc.edu - University of Wisconsin
- Wolfram.com - Mathematica, MathWorld, ScienceWorld
- WordPress.org - WordPress, open-source PHP blog script
- WUSTL.edu - Washington University in St. Louis
- XE.com - Currency conversion site
- Yahoo.com - Yahoo!, portal
- Yale.edu - Yale University