plog (what we ponder)
may 09
the first 100 days
Like Barack Obama, we just finished our first 100 days and are
pleased to report that after 100 short days, we are in the top 5% of all
websites. Hurray for us!
You might ask how can we make this seemingly
extraordinary claim. Well, with a little basic math and research, that’s
how.
First, we asked the question: How many websites are there on the
internet? It didn’t take long to
answer that. One
current estimate, which seems reasonable enough to us, puts that
number at 182 million.
Second, we asked: Where does ponderlicious.com rank? And for that,
we turned to alexa.com and ran a
check on yours truly and found we were ranked at 9,243,902. Not
that great on the surface of things. But wait, it gets better.
Finally, we did some basic math and felt a little better:
9,243,902/182,000,000 = .05 or 5%.
And though being ranked 9,243,902 is not much to write home about in some respects, in the
number-crazy world of the internet, we'll take it.
