Alexa Top 20 internet websites and Google Plus public ripples

Alexa publishes a list (under the ad on the right rail) for download with the top 1 million websites based on estimated traffic. Google, Facebook, Apple, Twitter, are just a few of the well known brands in the top of this list.

I wanted to check how this list compares to the ripples (A ripple is a public share of a page via Google Plus.) companies get on their homepages, and used my little script to do exactly that  for the top 1000 companies' homepages (only homepage!):

Top 20 homepages sorted by traffic according to Alexa.com. I then pulled the script to check for ripples of url from a textfile, and got this list. Then I added the numbers for rank by traffic and rank by number of ripples, and compared these. All of the top 1000 urls have the same rank by traffic and by ripples.

rank traffic	url homepage	ripples	rank by ripples	rank unmatch
1	facebook.com	5793	1	TRUE
2	google.com	5560	2	TRUE
3	apple.com	5109	3	TRUE
4	twitter.com	4826	4	TRUE
5	youtube.com	4629	5	TRUE
6	delicious.com	2507	6	TRUE
7	twoo.com	2362	7	TRUE
8	blogger.com	2289	8	TRUE
9	reddit.com	2066	9	TRUE
10	flickr.com	2058	10	TRUE
11	amazon.com	1895	11	TRUE
12	archive.org	1713	12	TRUE
13	google.com.hk	1622	13	TRUE
14	500px.com	1582	14	TRUE
15	mashable.com	1514	15	TRUE
16	stackoverflow.com	1440	16	TRUE
17	w3schools.com	1396	17	TRUE
18	9gag.com	1392	18	TRUE
19	scribd.com	1338	19	TRUE
20	goo.gl	1330	20	TRUE

Several were a surprise, I would have expected more retailers on this list and wikipedia - I was wrong. Twoo was a big surprise, but there's a lot of bad rep I got when searching for them.

The biggest surprise of all for me is that people share homepages of all these on G+, though, except for the shortener goo.gl.

You can download the list of all top 1000 homepage ripples numbers here.