The BBC have a very interesting feature today illustrating the Top 100 internet sites in graphics.
Under the how it works tab is also a very interesting wee app that illustrates just how fast the internet is growing and how many Google searches are processed every day!
Some info about the data from the BBC site
The data used to generate the interactive treemap visualisation was collected by the Nielsen company and covers the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Brazil, US and Australia. The figures represent unique users for the month of January 2010.
The categories – such as retail, social networks, search/portal – were defined by the BBC. Because some websites have more than one use, they could fall within more than one category (e.g. Yahoo). However, the treemap only classifies them once.
The maps were produced using the Prefuse Flare software, developed by the University of California Berkeley.
