Web Trend Map 4 by Information Architects

The 2009 Web Trend Map is the fourth edition of this awesome annual publication by Information Architects. Web Trend Map 4 visualizes the 333 leading web domains and the 111 most influential Internet people on the Tokio Metro map.


Domains are carefully selected by the iA research team. Each domain is evaluated based on traffic, revenue, age and the company that owns it and is assigned to an individual station on the map.

The soon to be published 2009 version of Web Trend Map 4 includes the following lines:

• Application
• Publishing
• Opinion
• News
• Identity
• Creativity
• Money
• Broadcasting
• Knowledge
• Advertisement
• Sharing
• Entertainment
• Filter

The map also includes Web Trend Ranking with the Top 50 most influential domains:

1. Google
2. Yahoo
3. MSN
4. Apple
5. Wikipedia
6. Amazon
7. YouTube
8. Facebook
9. Twitter
10. The Pirate Bay
11. The New York Times
12. Firefox
13. Adobe
14. Digg
15. Reddit
16. eBay
17. LinkedIn
18. Flickr
19. craigslist
20. deviantART
21. WordPress
22. The Huffington Post
23. Drudge Report
24. The Daily Show
25. CNN
26. The Guardian
27. The Washington Post
28. TechCrunch
29. The Wall Street Journal
30. TED
31. vimeo
32. FriendFeed
33. hulu
34. PayPal
35. StumbleUpon
36. Blogger
37. Bloomberg
38. Dailymotion
39. MySpace
40. O'Reilly
41. Last.fm
42. Delicious
43. Drupal
44. Ask
45. Blizzard
46. CNET
47. Skype
48. Fotolog
49. mixi
50. Spiegel.de

The final beta version of the map is available as a PNG image on flickr.