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Patrick Altoft at BlogStorm has compiled a list of some of the top sites on Digg by using the site: Google command. And, in the comments, Danny Sullivan says that a list of those sites ordered by the Total Number of Diggs would be way much better.

Ofcourse, I have the Digg data lying around in my hard disk (for the analysis of Digg which I am doing right now. Part I on growth here, and Part II on sites here), and it took me about 10 minutes to write 5 lines of VB9 code to produce the output he wanted. Here’s the Top 100 Sites on Digg.com ordered by Cumulative No. of Diggs starting right from 1^st December 2004 right up till 24^th September 2007(Sorry for the poor formatting, folks. I pushed this out in a hurry, got a Maths test tomorrowUpdate: I wrote a small script to fix the formatting for me, and I think it’s alright now. Thanks to Gamermk for poking me to get this done.):

1. blogspot.com - 1,132,811
2. arstechnica.com - 813,396
3. yahoo.com - 783,399
4. engadget.com - 670,608
5. flickr.com - 645,450
6. youtube.com - 614,522
7. cnn.com - 596,024
8. bbc.co.uk - 511,970
9. nytimes.com - 509,872
10. com.com - 490,131
11. gizmodo.com - 488,527
12. wired.com - 477,920
13. msn.com - 431,513
14. google.com - 410,007
15. com.au - 376,332
16. rawstory.com - 321,846
17. reuters.com - 317,296
18. consumerist.com - 308,470
19. washingtonpost.com - 290,175
20. apple.com - 282,238
21. thinkprogress.org - 263,323
22. crooksandliars.com - 230,617
23. physorg.com - 220,040
24. kotaku.com - 205,614
25. torrentfreak.com - 204,999
26. lifehacker.com - 204,198
27. techcrunch.com - 197,470
28. guardian.co.uk - 197,278
29. zdnet.com - 196,734
30. wikipedia.org - 194,053
31. nasa.gov - 189,698
32. joystiq.com - 188,153
33. wordpress.com - 185,072
34. appleinsider.com - 180,348
35. abcnews.go.com - 175,968
36. ign.com - 163,175
37. destructoid.com - 158,697
38. treehugger.com - 151,674
39. livescience.com - 149,776
40. businessweek.com - 149,486
41. dailymail.co.uk - 148,382
42. theinquirer.net - 139,299
43. macrumors.com - 138,388
44. timesonline.co.uk - 137,089
45. tuaw.com - 126,303
46. techeblog.com - 126,239
47. usatoday.com - 121,769
48. boingboing.net - 121,104
49. breitbart.com - 118,566
50. imageshack.us - 118,436
51. theregister.co.uk - 115,992
52. newscientist.com - 113,583
53. time.com - 108,982
54. digg.com - 107,151
55. microsoft.com - 104,842
56. autoblog.com - 104,553
57. latimes.com - 104,263
58. sfgate.com - 103,786
59. forbes.com - 102,074
60. gamespot.com - 98,700
61. scifi.com - 98,324
62. typepad.com - 97,705
63. nwsource.com - 97,284
64. slate.com - 93,360
65. extremetech.com - 91,470
66. 1up.com - 90,685
67. pcworld.com - 89,223
68. informationweek.com - 88,164
69. espn.go.com - 86,186
70. computerworld.com - 82,265
71. downloadsquad.com - 81,380
72. linux.com - 80,230
73. cbsnews.com - 78,508
74. telegraph.co.uk - 76,071
75. eweek.com - 74,990
76. pcmag.com - 73,234
77. lewrockwell.com - 73,057
78. mashable.com - 72,899
79. instructables.com - 72,328
80. cnet.com - 71,830
81. cracked.com - 70,713
82. doubleviking.com - 70,620
83. wikimedia.org - 69,974
84. sourceforge.net - 69,315
85. techdirt.com - 67,957
86. hosted.ap.org - 67,671
87. valleywag.com - 66,668
88. wsj.com - 66,591
89. nationalgeographic.com - 64,630
90. salon.com - 61,675
91. ebay.com - 61,541
92. foxnews.com - 61,346
93. jalopnik.com - 59,837
94. popsci.com - 59,751
95. deviantart.com - 58,819
96. sciam.com - 58,730
97. macworld.com - 57,631
98. photobucket.com - 56,983
99. bit-tech.net - 56,248
100. somethingawful.com - 55,937

There, real hard data. And, I betcha this will be waay less popular than the BlogStorm post I would’ve put up the Top 100 sites sorted by No. of Stories on the frontpage as well, but I’ve left that out since most of it is covered in Digg Analysis Part II already. Oh, and if you want to know where your site Ranks, drop a comment and I’ll tell you.

Oh, and these numbers are from stories that have reached the frontpage, which is a good thing since you can’t submit a site 56k times and get it to show up here, and a bad thing as well since we’ll be able to know which site is spamming by getting the ratio of articles on frontpage to total articles from that site. Even if I wanted to, I cannot get the data about all the articles submitted to Digg simply because I do not have that much processing power. Sigh.

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