This chart courtesy Nick Bilton will help you visualize the number of hyperlinks that currently exist on homepage of 98 popular news websites and tech blogs.
The sites mentioned in the chart are organized in alphabetical order and the size of a circle is directly proportional to the number of links that are present on the home page of that site.
Now a lot of these links may exist purely for navigation but it may still give you an idea of the effort that may have been required if you were to check each and every story / link mentioned on just a couple of your favorite sites.
You can easily see how a day spent online navigating your favorite news, blogs, and information sites, checking in with your Google Reader feeds, following a twitter stream of a couple of hundred people, and clicking on your email a few dozen times (likely an understatement for most of us) can expose you to well over 100,000 links in a single day.
The New York Times has 431 links, PC World has 312 while tech news aggregator Techmeme takes the maximum screen estate in the chart with 1081 links.
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/number-of-links-on-popular-websites/7610/
Tags: Archives, charts, data, information overload, visualization, Internet
Reader Comments
Thousands of links in a home page amazing things … I m great fan PC world site and happy to see it has so many links in its home page..
Written by Fasil on 02.25.09
Good to see this one.
There is a general thought that people argue that homepages should have as less links as possible. I was always against it given that the quality of links is good.
Written by Vamsi on 02.26.09
I think this is an awesome chart. However, it has misused the use of “size of circle” to quantify the number of links. They are actually only comparing the diameters of the circle.
The area of a circle is a quadratic equation and hence has to represent squared items. Number of links is a single dimensional value. =)
However, I get the idea, so no gripes!!
Written by Renganathan Ramamoorthy on 02.27.09
They have so many links on their homepage and they are successful websites. It’s great how they have managed to add that many links with making a mess on their website. Nice post thanks for sharing info.
Written by Aditya on 03.01.09
I’d be more interested in the difference between countries (particularly UK and US) websites as from what I’ve seen US websites GENERALLY have a lot more links and longer pages. My opinion is that anything more than 200 links makes it impossible for users to properly navigate and floods there vision. This is just my view and experience though
Alex
Written by Alex on 03.01.09