BLOG: Internet’s 300,000 most popular websites - warning! Contains very graphic images!

Nmap.org created an interesting visualization of the internet's most popular web destinations, by gathering the favicons of the 300,000 most popular web-sites. The popularity of the websites determined the size of the favicon. As one may expect, Google dominates the board at 11,936 x 11,936 pixels and the smallest icons are coming at 16 x 16 pixels.

A large-scale scan of the top million web sites (per Alexa traffic data) was performed in early 2010 using the Nmap Security Scannerand its scripting engine.

You can find an interactive zoomable version here: http://nmap.org/favicon/