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.