Ranked 570th among all website buzz

WASHINGTON – A new Internet tracking tool ranks WorldNetDaily as the 570th most popular website in the world for references by other sites and popularity of RSS feeds.

Because of the way ://URLFAN.com is structured, it measures only references to WorldNetDaily, not WND, a domain that has accounted for approximately 25 percent of the site's traffic for several years.

Coincidentally, beginning this week, all traffic directed to WorldNetDaily.com is being routed to WND.com – a simplified url that management believes will make it easier for visitors to find and produce more efficient accurate results for website traffic ranking agencies.

"://URLFAN is an evolving experiment designed to discover what websites the blogosphere is discussing all in real time," explains the new venture. "It does this by cultivating the content of millions of RSS feeds, parsing billions of pieces of information to make a transparent ranking based on that data. In this way you can discover who's a fan of your URL."

The most notable public traffic ranking system, Alexa.com, ranks WND 2,822 among all websites in the world. Alexa ranks WND third in the category of political coverage, 656th among all U.S.-based sites, 11th in breaking news, and No. 1 among "conservatives."

"Unlike Alexa, there is no approximating in our ranking system since we're using concrete data to generate the results," explains ://URLFAN's website. "://URLFAN is here to provide website publishers with a useful tool in tracking their websites and how their content is referenced by other websites. Our system parses the millions of blog posts that are generated everyday, literally counting every mention of every website we come across. We filter out spam, broken links, and other various material to determine how many times your website was mentioned today. We reference this against every other website and determine where you rank among them."