Google.com continues to dominate the digital landscape, ranking as the most linked-to website worldwide with 468,745 referring subnets as of December 2024. Facebook.com follows closely in second place with 470,479 referring subnets, while YouTube.com ranked third with 417,827.

In November 2024, Google.com was the most popular website worldwide with 136 billion average monthly visits. The online platform has held the top spot as the most popular website since June 2010, when it pulled ahead of Yahoo into first place. Second-ranked YouTube generated more than 72.8 billion monthly visits in the measured period. The internet leaders: search, social, and e-commerce Social networks, search engines, and e-commerce websites shape the online experience as we know it. While Google leads the global online search market by far, YouTube and Facebook have become the world’s most popular websites for user generated content, solidifying Alphabet’s and Meta’s leadership over the online landscape. Meanwhile, websites such as Amazon and eBay generate millions in profits from the sale and distribution of goods, making the e-market sector an integral part of the global retail scene. What is next for online content? Powering social media and websites like Reddit and Wikipedia, user-generated content keeps moving the internet’s engines. However, the rise of generative artificial intelligence will bring significant changes to how online content is produced and handled. ChatGPT is already transforming how online search is performed, and news of Google's 2024 deal for licensing Reddit content to train large language models (LLMs) signal that the internet is likely to go through a new revolution. While AI's impact on the online market might bring both opportunities and challenges, effective content management will remain crucial for profitability on the web.

Analysis of ‘QS World University Rankings 2017 - 2022’ provided by Analyst-2 (analyst-2.ai), based on source dataset retrieved from https://www.kaggle.com/padhmam/qs-world-university-rankings-2017-2022 on 13 February 2022.

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Context

QS World University Rankings is an annual publication of global university rankings by Quacquarelli Symonds. The QS ranking receives approval from the International Ranking Expert Group (IREG), and is viewed as one of the three most-widely read university rankings in the world. QS publishes its university rankings in partnership with Elsevier.

Content

This dataset contains university data from the year 2017 to 2022. It has a total of 15 features. - university - name of the university - year - year of ranking - rank_display - rank given to the university - score - score of the university based on the six key metrics mentioned above - link - link to the university profile page on QS website - country - country in which the university is located - city - city in which the university is located - region - continent in which the university is located - logo - link to the logo of the university - type - type of university (public or private) - research_output - quality of research at the university - student_faculty_ratio - number of students assigned to per faculty - international_students - number of international students enrolled at the university - size - size of the university in terms of area - faculty_count - number of faculty or academic staff at the university

Acknowledgements

This dataset was acquired by scraping the QS World University Rankings website with Python and Selenium. Cover Image: Source

Inspiration

Some of the questions that can be answered with this dataset, 1. What makes a best ranked university? 2. Does the location of a university play a role in its ranking? 3. What do the best universities have in common? 4. How important is academic research for a university? 5. Which country is preferred by international students?

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A complete list of live websites using the SE Ranking technology, compiled through global website indexing conducted by WebTechSurvey.

Content

The Times Higher Education (by subject) rankings have been retrieved from the official THE website. While the THE by subject rankings vary w.r.t. the periods they cover, the overall THE rankings comprise the respective data from 2011-2020. Also the data by the Center for World University Rankings have been retrieved from the center's website and they cover the period from 2012-2020.

Individual THE by subject rankings can be accessed via the columnsubject:

• Arts & Humanities
• Business & Economics
• Clinical, pre-clinical & health
• Computer science
• Education
• Engineering & Technology
• Law
• Life sciences
• Physical sciences
• Psychology
• Social sciences

Inspiration

These data may contribute to answer the following questions: - How do university rankings change over time? - Which characteristics of universities contribute most to good rankings, or to large changes in the ranking position? - How do these characteristics correlate with characteristics of cities or countries in which the university is located? - Are there predictors for increases or decreases in the rankings? - etc.

The SCImago Institutions Rankings (SIR) is a classification of academic and research-related institutions ranked by a composite indicator that combines three different sets of indicators based on research performance, innovation outputs and societal impact measured by their web visibility. It provides a friendly interface that allows the visualization of any customized ranking from the combination of these three sets of indicators. Additionally, it is possible to compare the trends for individual indicators of up to six institutions. For each large sector it is also possible to obtain distribution charts of the different indicators. For comparative purposes, the value of the composite indicator has been set on a scale of 0 to 100. However the line graphs and bar graphs always represent ranks (lower is better, so the highest values are the worst).

Using four metrics—**Authority Score, Referring Domains, Citation Flow, and Trust Flow**—with an equal weight of 25%, SCImago constructs an overall indicator that reflects media websites’ digital reputation. The results define their relative position in the ranking and permit a comparison of digital development and leadership.

☢️❓The entire dataset is obtained from public and open-access data of SCImago Media Rankings

The complete Weather websites ranking list: Click here for free access to the top Weather websites in the world, ranked by traffic and engagement

Data on the top universities for Social Sciences in 2025, including disciplines such as Communication & Media Studies, Geography, and Sociology.

Designed and produced by the World Wide Web Foundation, the Web Index is the world’s first measure of the World Wide Web’s contribution to social, economic and political progress in countries across the world. http://thewebindex.org/about/ Scores are given in the areas of universal access; freedom and openness; relevant content; and empowerment. First released in 2012, the 2014-15 Index has been expanded and refined to include a total of 86 countries and features an enhanced data set, particularly in the areas of gender, Open Data, privacy rights and censorship. The Index combines existing secondary data with new primary data derived from an evidence-based expert assessment survey. The Web Index provides an objective and robust evidence base to inform public dialogue on the steps needed for societies to leverage greater value from the Web. It is published annually and resources permitting, it will continue to be expanded to cover more countries in the coming years. It will eventually allow for comparisons of trends over time and the benchmarking of performance across countries, continuously improving our understanding of the Web’s value for humanity.

The complete Food and Drink websites ranking list: Click here for free access to the top Food and Drink websites in the world, ranked by traffic and engagement

Data on the top universities for Law in 2025.

In August 2023, espn.com was the most visited sports website worldwide. The famous sports channel recorded ***** million online visits that month. Meanwhile, marca.com placed second in the ranking with ***** million visits.

Introduction

The World Athletics, previously known as the International Amateur Athletic Federation and is the international governing organization for the sport of athletics covering from track and field and several running modalities (road, race walking, ultra, mountain running, etc). One of the World Atthletics tasks is to organize and publish a global ranking system to compare multiple athletes performances across a range of sports categories. By applying standardised compilation methods (under specific rules), it is therefore possible to evaluate the comparative quality of the participating fields at competitions of the same type and to produce competition performance rankings. The rankings are designed to recognize and celebrate the achievements of athletes participating in marathon events worldwide. The list takes into account various factors such as race results, timing, and the competitive level of the event.

In this analysis we will focus on the World Athletics Marathon ranking list from 2019 until June 2023. Our goal is to evaluate the outstanding performances of the best marathon runners in the world. It is important to notice that this analysis will be limited to the listed athletes's performances acrosss different races and events recognized by the World Athletics organization. Many answers we will attempt to answer, such as the top countries that displays on the top 100 marathon runners, the countries evolution (based on the nationalities) on ranking from 2019-2023 (is Kenya really the country with the most top runners in the world ?), the age distribution for male and women and curiosities such the performance of Eliud Kipchoge (the fastest marathon runner in the world), the Brazilian performances and even for how long the athletes can keep his name in the ranking list.

Motivation

My name is Marcel Caraciolo, and currently doing a Data Science Specialization at the Cesar School, a famous technology university at Recife, Pernambuco Brazil. This project is part of the evaluation of a discipline named 'Data Visualization' ministered by the professor Eronides Neto. The initial reason is to apply data exploratory and visualization techniques on in sports analytics, and since I am marathon enthusiast and a passioned runner, I would like to understand the athetes profiles of the best marathoners in the world. This analyis could be useful for anyone interested to get a current data snapshot of the marathon performances and furthermore as basis for enthusiasts and journalists interested in data sports analytics.

Datasets

For this study, I had to scrape the website of World of Athletics, the organization that provides the marathon ranking lists. The data in original form can be found here. The parsed data can be found here at Kaggle webpage.

• World Athletics Marathon Performance Ranking list 2019-2023

Parsing and preparing the data provided was a little challenging, wince I needed to loop over all the marathon ranking lists organized by month-date and sex. For each ranking list I also had to loop over all the pages since the ranking was split into a table of 50 rows per page. All the data result files of the World Athletics ranking list over the past 4 years (January 2019 - June 2023) is saved as comma-separated text files. After a second analysis at the ranking lists I could also find some stats about the races considered to compute the ranking score. I could extract the race description, the date of the event and the race type (marathon (42km) or half-marathon (21km)).

The data scraping notebook can be found following this link:

Data Dictionary

Data Dictionary for worldathletics/RANKINGDATE_SEX_WORLDATHLETICS_MARATHON_RANKINGS.csv

rank,competitor,dob,nat,score,events,competitor_id,sex,rank_date

Data on the top universities for Engineering in 2025, including disciplines such as Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.

The average for 2024 based on 175 countries was 5.42 index points. The highest value was in Iran: 10 index points and the lowest value was in Iceland: 0.2 index points. The indicator is available from 2007 to 2024. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

Data on the top universities for Medical and Health in 2025, including disciplines such as Medicine and Dentistry, and Other Health Subjects.

Ranking top 17 web sites according to flow distances and comparisons with other ranking methods.

A spreadsheet containing THE/Elsevier’s Arts and Humanities 2015-2016 Top 100by Country, Population, GDP and Expenditure in Education (Latest World Bank Data). Some figures with commas for human readability. TES data is likely to be owned by or licensed by TES Global. Scopus data is Copyright © 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved .Scopus® is a registered trademark of Elsevier B.V. This spreadsheet contains data rearranged for research purposes sourced from freely available content published on https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2016/subject-ranking/arts-and-humanities and is shared here for educational and research purposes. No copyright infringement intended. The World Bank Open Data web sites offer free and open access to data about development in countries around the globe.

From April 2022 to January 2024, the ************************************************* saw an average of approximately ** million visits, ranking as the most popular education site worldwide. ********, which offers classes and certifications on various subjects, saw ** million visits from global users in the examined period. ********************************************** for students and teachers, ranked third with ***** million visits recorded on average between April 2022 and the beginning of 2024.