So what are some popular sites running on the Google App Engine?
I've compiled a list of what I believe are the ten most popular sites currently running on the Google App Engine. In this context the site's Alexa ranking is taken as a proxy for the site's popularity. Sure, Alexa is not a perfect indicator of popularity, but it is the best publicly available traffic data source there is.
Here is the list of the most popular site running on Google App Engine as of May 6, 2009:
- 1. www.robtex.com (Alexa rank: 1691)
- 2. www.twibes.com (Alexa rank: 13143)
- 3. www.acid-play.com (Alexa rank: 25884)
- 4. www.jaiku.com (Alexa rank: 29061)
- 5. www.wordle.net (Alexa rank: 34022)
- 6. www.twazzup.com (Alexa rank: 40910)
- 7. www.twollo.com (Alexa rank: 41414)
- 8. www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com (Alexa rank: 41718)
- 9. www.chromeexperiments.com (Alexa rank: 49899)
- 10. www.desktop-reporting.com (Alexa rank: 51447)
Jaiku.com should probably be given a special mention. While Jaiku.com appears to be running on the App Engine platform I'd guess that Jaiku is running in a server environment that is separate from the standard public GAE environment. The CNAME setup of www.jaiku.com would support that hypothesis (CNAME jaiku.l.google.com instead of the standard GAE CNAME of ^(ghs|appspot)) . Does anyone know if that is the case? Please leave a comment.
I'll update this top list from time to time as I'm certain that a significant number of high-traffic sites will be migrated to GAE over the coming months thanks to the recently added support for Java (or more specifically Java bytecode).
10 comments:
www.earthhour.org (rank of 11,638)
I thought Alexa ranks aren't that accurate in predicting site traffic since it counts visitors using the Alexa toolbar which AFAIK not many people use.
My website relatively and new (i.e don't have any top ten raking) but using AppEngine .
Here its http://www.tweetactive.com/
@atnan: Thanks! Will add earthhour.org and three additional sites in the next update:
* www.earthhour.org (Alexa rank 11638)
* www.bloggerstop.net (Alexa rank 39930)
* www.icittys.com (Alexa rank 44513)
* www.blogdoctor.me (Alexa rank 45251)
@xAbhishek: That was true until roughly a year ago when Alexa added additional data sources, see this article.
http://www.waterfalcon.com/
probably in the top 100,000,000 on Alexa ;)
Alexa lumps together *.appspot.com to the aggregate rating for the entire appspot.com domain which has an Alexa ranking of 3192.
Appspot.com subdomains (*.appspot.com) are used for GAE-hosted sites without a site specific domain name. These are usually sites under development or smaller sites.
Are you sure about www.robtex.com? CNAME does not go to ghs.google.com, and /form returns an ordinary 404.
@losjackal: It appears as if robtex.com has moved away from AppEngine. I'm sure it was on GAE - the site also featured the text "latest news: Mar 26: we are in the process of moving the site to google appengine.".
Thanks for considering BloggerStop.Net :)
Regards
Sai
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