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Of all the websites in the universe, this one ranks #26,223. I pictured us closer to #8,422.
We’ll get there.
And because I’ve installed the Alexa Toolbar, I’ll know exactly when we do. 
Alexa tells me how popular the site I’m looking at happens to be. Here are the rankings of a few places I’ve recently visited:
• #30,536: JapanProbe.com. I’ve been watching episodes of Tunnels no Minasan no Okage Deshita (or ‘Human Tetris’).
• #1,030: Wired.com. Bios for everyone on the Sgt. Pepper cover.
• #4,147,488: GuardedlyOptimistic.com. A hilarious look at brutally honest taglines.
• #74,381: WashingtonCityPaper.com. Dave Jamieson’s 2003 cover story on Matthew Lesko, the man in the question mark suit.
• #5,533,533: ArmchairNews.com. A testy 2000 exchange between Dave Eggers and a writer for the Harvard Advocate.
Here are the top ten sites are in Alexa’s Global 500: Yahoo, Google, YouTube, MSN, Live.com, MySpace, Facebook, Wikipedia, Hi5.com and Orkut.
This brings us to the Sunday Question: where do your favorite sites rank? You can either install the Alexa Toolbar (or Firefox extension) and tell us, or simply suggest sites about which you’re curious.
And here are some recent mental_floss posts that contributed to our #26,223 ranking:
• Essential Frankenstein Facts (Part I and Part II)
• 14 Stories You May Not Know About Robert F. Kennedy
• The Moon Disaster That Never Happened
• Five Unwanted Cases of TV Fame
• Five Famous Felines
• Six Phantom Phenomena
• The Seven Habits of Highly Infectious People
• Eight Wacky Action Figures
• Fun with Dictionaries
• Lots of candy trivia
• And lots and lots of new quizzes
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I downloaded the Firefox extension. Firefox.com is #121.
posted by Kelly J. on 11-4-2007 at 2:09 pm
The New York Post is #2277. The NY Daily News is 33,004!
posted by Travis on 11-4-2007 at 2:12 pm
microsoft.com = 18
apple.com = 89
posted by Fletch on 11-4-2007 at 3:27 pm
Washington Post is 750th…
NY Times is 219th…
LA Times is 1432….
Boston Globe is 1,325…
USA Today is 950…
Drudge Report is 1258..
CNN is 98
FoxNews is 711
MSNBC is 4 (but that’s because it’s part of the MSN.com)
posted by breakingnews on 11-4-2007 at 3:48 pm
NFL.com: 543
MLB.com: 301
NBA.com: 339
NHL.com: 1575
PGA.com: 14,320
posted by Johnny on 11-4-2007 at 5:11 pm
What’s http://www.cracked.com?
how about http://www.gofugyourself.com
and then http://www.foundmagazine.com
Those are fun. And how about this little number that lets you see the last 50 images upload to LiveJournal
http://www.fuzzysquid.com/lj.php
Okay, i’m done now. I was just curious.
posted by JEnny on 11-4-2007 at 7:04 pm
I love that MLB.com is ranked higher than NFL and NBA .coms. Maybe baseball fans are more computer literate?
posted by Jenny on 11-4-2007 at 7:05 pm
Slightly off topic…
Matthew Lesko is one scary guy in person. He’s a season subscriber and contributor for the choir in which my wife sings and I got this shot of him, still wearing the Riddler outfit, at a fund raiser: http://www.flickr.com/photos/assortedstuff/255898866/
posted by Tim on 11-4-2007 at 7:44 pm
Cracked is #3,818
Go Fug Yourself is #18,344
Found Magazine is #51,137
And Tim’s Matthew Lesko pic is phenomenal.
posted by Jason on 11-4-2007 at 8:16 pm
@Jenny
MLB.com is most likely only ranked higher than NFL.com because the playoffs just took place.
posted by Brian on 11-4-2007 at 8:59 pm
Stephan Hawking’s web page is #193,201
I like to read Prof. Hawking’s lectures in pdf.
posted by Jason on 11-4-2007 at 10:27 pm
So many interesting sites… so little time! Thanks for the Human Tetris link… that made my whole afternoon.
posted by Trena on 11-7-2007 at 3:07 pm
I like japanprobe too. Another good one is japansugoi.com which is Alexa # 56591
posted by Ronan on 11-8-2007 at 6:50 am
my favorite site is an online dating community its really cool and im suprised and upset to find its not listed at all
posted by riva on 9-20-2008 at 5:10 am