Top 20 Most Popular Business Websites. The top 100 sites on the internet. Explore this interactive graphic to find out which are the biggest sites on the internet, as measured by the Nielsen company.
This feature is part of SuperPower, a season of programmes exploring the power of the internet. About this data The data used to generate the interactive treemap visualisation were collected by the Nielsen company and covers the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Brazil, US and Australia. The figures represent unique users for the month of January 2010. The new 100 most useful sites. In 2004, the internet was a different place: there was, for example, no YouTube, and most Britons online didn't have broadband.
That's changed dramatically: now, more than 75% of users have broadband, and the arrival of Web 2.0 has brought sites where the interaction is as fast as if it were on your machine. So we've revisited the "cream of the crop" that we brought you two years ago. The 100 essential websites. Andy Warhol talked of a time when everyone would be famous for 15 minutes.
With hindsight, however, he might have wanted to revise that down to about five minutes. On today's web, phrases such as "here today, gone tomorrow" seem to involve ridiculously long timescales.