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#7 in Websites
of 18 ranked entries
Reddit, Inc. · founded 2005
A front page built entirely from community voting rather than an editorial desk, which means the quality of any given subreddit is only as good as the moderators keeping it that way. Recorded specifics: monthly visits 1200 M, founded 2005, ad density Medium. Panel highlighted niche communities exist for almost any topic imaginable and upvote system genuinely surfaces useful answers over time. The reservation on record is quality varies enormously by subreddit and moderation team.
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Each criterion is scored independently, then combined using the weights published on Websites.
On the record
| Monthly visits | 1200 M |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2005 |
| Ad density | Medium |
| Rating | 8.7 |
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Wikimedia Foundation · founded 2001
No ads, no paywall, and a citation culture strict enough that a disputed claim gets flagged within hours on any moderately watched page. Still the first stop for a reason nothing else has replicated at this scale.
Microsoft · founded 2008
Became the de facto identity layer for software developers almost by accident — a portfolio, a resume and a collaboration tool that outgrew its original pull-request feature entirely.
Internet Archive · founded 1996
The Wayback Machine alone has settled more factual disputes about what a website used to say than any other tool on the internet, and it does it as a nonprofit with a fraction of Big Tech’s budget.
Stack Exchange · founded 2008
Traffic has genuinely dropped as AI coding assistants answer more first-pass questions directly, but the accumulated answer archive is still what those assistants were largely trained on.
Mozilla · founded 2005
The single most trusted reference for how a browser actually behaves, maintained with a rigor most vendor documentation still does not match.
Google · founded 2004
Indexes preprints and grey literature that formal databases miss, at the cost of citation counts that are looser and easier to game than a curated academic index.
Wolfram Research · founded 2009
Answers a computational question with an actual worked derivation rather than a link list, which makes it the one search tool that still feels like it is doing real work.
Amazon · founded 1990
The film and TV database everyone still checks first despite the user-score volatility that review-bombing campaigns have exposed repeatedly.
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