A research-oriented top sites ranking hardened against manipulation - Tranco

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2023-04-01 21:30:04

Researchers in web security or Internet measurements often use rankings of popular websites. However, in our paper we showed that these rankings disagree on which domains are most popular, can change significantly on a daily basis and can be manipulated (by malicious actors).

As the research community still benefits from regularly updated lists of popular domains, we provide Tranco, a new ranking that improves upon the shortcomings of current lists. We also emphasize the reproducibility of these rankings and the studies using them by providing permanent citable references.

We advise to use the latest standard Tranco list: one million domains obtained by averaging all four rankings over the past 30 days.

You can directly retrieve the latest Tranco list at this permanent URL, e.g. for use in daily crawls. You can retrieve the permanent ID of this list separately to refer to it later on.

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