title string | id string | licenses list |
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Piperic Top 1 Million Websites | attilarczakcosi/piperic-top-1m | [
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"name": "CC-BY-4.0"
}
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Piperic Top 1 Million Websites
The top 1,000,000 websites ranked by the number of distinct domains linking to them from their homepages — built from Piperic's independent crawl of 50M+ live, content-validated websites and a link graph of 180M+ edges.
- File:
top-1m.csv—rank, domain, linking_domains - Updated: monthly (this snapshot: October 2026)
- License: CC BY 4.0 — free for any use with attribution to Piperic
- Live version & methodology: https://piperic.com/tools/top-sites
Methodology (summary)
Piperic continuously crawls the homepages of 50M+ live websites (HTTP 2xx,
parked/dead domains removed by a trained classifier). Every outbound link found
on a homepage becomes an edge in the link graph. A site's linking_domains
value is the number of distinct domains whose homepage links to it —
a popularity signal that is hard to fake with link farms, since each linking
domain counts once.
Compared to similar lists:
| source signal | update | |
|---|---|---|
| Piperic Top 1M | homepage link graph, 50M+ crawled sites | monthly |
| Tranco | aggregation of third-party traffic lists | daily |
| Majestic Million | Majestic's link index (subdomain level) | daily |
The lists complement each other: traffic-based ranks and link-based ranks answer different questions. Piperic's list is link-evidence-based and fully reproducible against the public per-domain pages on piperic.com.
Caveats
- Homepage links only — links from inner pages are not counted, which makes the metric conservative and consistent.
- A small number of parked/redirect domains may appear despite filtering; the classifier and blocklists improve monthly.
Citation
Piperic Top 1 Million Websites (October 2026 edition), Piperic Business Intelligence, https://piperic.com/tools/top-sites — CC BY 4.0.
Questions, custom cuts (by country, technology or industry): hello@piperic.com
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