Here is a fascinating animation that shows the 100 biggest web sites on the Internet, along with some sense of how big they are relative to each other:

Visualising the internet – The top 100 sites on the Internet

A treemap is a way of analysing large amounts of data in a small space. In this example the top 100 websites have been depicted in proportion to the number of unique visits they received in January 2010.

Be sure to click the “How It Works” tab. See also: How Internet Infrastructure Works

The following infographic provides another perspective on the 10 largest internet publishers and the sites that they own:

Who are the Online Publishing Companies That Matter?

The ten largest online publishers own a disproportionate amount of the world’s web traffic. These busy sites, including subsidiary holdings, account for billions of unique visitors per month.

If you are looking for the most active forums on the Internet, this site can help with rankings and statistics:

Big Boards

Big-Boards tracks the most active message boards and forums on the web. We currently have 2337 message boards in database!

They all have more than 500,000 posts. One of them is approaching 2 billion posts.

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