From Search Engine Land:
To get an overall view of information about the web we need data, lots of data. And we need it on a regular basis. There are some organizations that provide open data for this purpose like Httparchive. It collects and permanently stores the web’s digitized content and offers them as public dataset. A second example is Common Crawl, an organization that crawls the web every month. Their web archive has been collecting petabytes of data since 2011. In their own words, “Common Crawl is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to providing a copy of the internet to internet researchers, companies and individuals at no cost for the purpose of research and analysis.”
In this article, a quick data analysis of Common Crawl’s recent public data and metrics will be presented to offer a glimpse into what’s happening on the web today.
This data analysis was performed on almost two billion edges of nearly 90 million hosts. For the purposes of this article, the term “edge” will be used as a reference to a link. An edge from one host (domain) to another is counted only once if there is at least one link from one host to the other host. Also to note that the PageRank of hosts is dependent on the number of links received from other hosts but not on the number given to others.
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