I used to wonder what the other side of the web looks like. You know, the sites that search engines don't return to you because you don't live there or you don't speak that language. I wanted to know what Russian, Greek and Arabic websites look like, what the other billions of people on earth look at every day.
To find out, I downloaded list of 1,000,000 most visited websites and hacked together a site ( http://ShuffledWeb.com ) that takes you to random websites.
It turns out Web is big and interesting place. Even seeing 100 sites a day on ShuffledWeb.com, it would still take 27 years to see all of them.
If you are curious like me, give it a look. You will run into interesting sites like the http://www.thepurplestore.com a site that sells only "everything purple". ( I bet Marie from Breaking Bad would love that site )
Data is a static list of 1M website Urls and the web application uses Ajax to randomly pull from the server and iframes the Url. It pre-fetches and pre-renders 3-5 websites at a time to make it more seemless to navigate. Backend is done with NodeJS.
To find out, I downloaded list of 1,000,000 most visited websites and hacked together a site ( http://ShuffledWeb.com ) that takes you to random websites.
It turns out Web is big and interesting place. Even seeing 100 sites a day on ShuffledWeb.com, it would still take 27 years to see all of them.
If you are curious like me, give it a look. You will run into interesting sites like the http://www.thepurplestore.com a site that sells only "everything purple". ( I bet Marie from Breaking Bad would love that site )