It was introduced a regular rating of the most influential websites in the world which was created by ReadWriteWeb company. Rating is based on data developed by the publication service ://URLFAN which ranks sites by the mention in blogs and social media sites. Second consecutive year the first line won the English-language online encyclopedia Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org). In the second place was video service Youtube, the third spot took photohosting service Flickr. Rookie of the list was Facebook once ensnared in the seventh line. Twitter could rise above all – from the ninth to the fourth place. But the website edition of The Washington Post who held in November 2008 the 10th line rate fell into two lines and could not get in the new edition of the most quoted in dozens of blog sites. Fully rating looks like this:

1. en.wikipedia.org
2. youtube.com
3. flickr.com
4. twitter.com
5. google.com
6. myspace.com
7. facebook.com
8. imdb.com
9. nytimes.com
10. apple.com

The leader Wikipedia is also among the top five most visited websites in the world. Last year attendance of Wikipedia has grown by about 20%.

Service ://URLFAN was opened in November 2008. As it stated on the project site the service assesses the popularity of almost four million sites on the basis of more than 300 billion posts in the six million blogs. Simultaneously with the launch of service ReadWriteWeb published the first rating of the most cited sites.