This has been all around the internet, but I thought I’ld share it today since I just found out VizWorld.com occupies a tiny little 48×48 portion of it. Over at nmap.org, they compiled the top 1-million websites (as ranked by Alexa) and compiled their Favicons into a giant map.
The area of each icon is proportional to the sum of the reach of all sites using that icon. When both a bare domain name and its “www.” counterpart used the same icon, only one of them was counted. The smallest icons–those corresponding to sites with approximately 0.0001% reach–are scaled to 16×16 pixels. The largest icon (Google) is 11,936 x 11,936 pixels, and the whole diagram is 37,440 x 37,440 (1.4 gigapixels). Since your web browser would choke on that, we have created the interactive viewer below (click and drag to pan, double-click to zoom, or type in a site name to go right to it).
They have an interactive viewer on their site, and if you zoom far in on upper right, you’ll see VizWorld!
via Icons of the Web.
