The top100 UK websites - what a social comment!

In preperation for development of a new web project, its is interesting to look at what the great British public are looking at in the hope I can figure out what they are looking for. But the latest Alexa rankings bring about some interesting results.

The top10 are littered with global web glitteraty - Google, Yahoo, Facebook, MySpace, and the BBC: the most respected news service in the world, who's rankings are often high thanks to its perceived political neutrality. The next10 also shouldn't come as much of s surprise - Wikipedia, Microsoft, Blogger, etc.

But now it all gets a bit more interesting......

YouPorn (21), the free view site who's names apes YouTube, now outranks Autotrader (22) - with RedTube in at No.28, and AdultFriendFinder at No.64

PowerApple (26), a site for Chinese students overseas, is joined in the Top50 with Nasza-klasa.pl (40). Onet.pl is in at No.64

The news agencies rank poorly after the BBC, with the sports sections such as SkySports (31) out ranking any of the well known newspapers

Martin Lewis's MoneySavingsExpert breaks the Top100 at No. 97, outranking the DailyMail at No.99

For those interested, Ecademy ranks in at No.241 in the UK, with 55.2% of its page hits from UK based IP addresses

So, it seems we are a nation of global trend following porn lovers, whose multicultural citizens are more interested in sports than real news.......? It makes me wonder why topless weather girls went down so poorly on television - but perhaps the internet allows us Brits to better express ourselves?