The 2004 Yorkshire Top Fifty:
The most popular sites in the county based on the January Alexa.com rankings, February 1st 2004

Note: A few good small sites in Yorkshire use the UK2NET servers, or registered their domain with them. All UK2NET sites achieve an identical general server ranking .

(Bracket is 2003 January figure)

1 (1) Halifax Building Society 5,475th rank

2 (3) University of Leeds 8,555.

3 (5). Hallam University 12,003

4 (2) Leeds United FC 12,339

5 (4). University of Sheffield 12,779

6 (6) University of York 30,852

7 (14) Bradford & Bingley 39,168

8 (11) Leeds Metropolitan University 43,703

9. (25) Yorkshire Post 51,853

10 (9) Yorkshire Bank 53,976

11 (12) This Is York (York Evening Press) 57,744

12 (-) Blades United 86,537

13 (7) The Yorkshire Posts Forum 39,524

14 (22) Leeds Council 103,706

15 (10) Huddersfield University 119,905

16 (26/44) Sheffield Star 121,955

17(8) Bradford University 128,155

18 (26) Bradford Telegraph/Argus 153,210

19 (16) Gatecrasher (Sheffield) 155,870

20 (15) Meadowhall Shopping Center 158,167

21 (-) Bradford Bulls 99,635

22 (19) Leeds Today (Evening Post) 153,946

23 (-) Leeds / Bradford Airport 198,563

24 (-) Leeds United Mad 199,903

25 (-) Harrogate Council 236,304

26 (20) Yorkshire Information Centre (Yorkshirenet) 224,277

27 (28) Rotherham Council 227,431

28 (17) Yorkshire Building Society 247,859

29 (34) Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council 290,362

30 (21) Sheffield City Council 258,108

31 (41) National Railway Museum 261,389

32 (-) Sheffield School of Interior Design 265,679

33 (45) East Riding County Council 270,535

34 (-) Yorkshire Forward 273,154

35 (22) Doncaster Council 276,261

36 (24) Hull City Council 288,337

37 (-) Leedsfans 288,596

38 (40) City of York Council 299,631

39 (-) Yorkshire Births Marriages Deaths 306,578

40 (-) I Know Yorkshire 317,826

41 (40) York Tourism (First Stop York) 332,135

42 (-) National Museum of Photography, Film & Television 360,903

43 (-) York St. John College 365,324

44 (27) Calderdale Council 369,352

45 (35) Barnsley Chronicle 369,357

46 (46) North Yorkshire County Council 387,689

47 (39) Yorkshire Tourist Board 400,627

48 (-) Wakefield College 403,608

49 (-) West Yorkshire Playhouse 411,972

50 (38) York-United-Kingdom (An Independent York Guide) 486,118

Others:

- (33) Daelnet 536,327

Business Link West Yorkshire 536,327

Yorkshire Futures 486,946

Yorkshire Visitor 508, 559

Missing Links:

All Football League sites are now under one umbrella (premium.tv) and data is no longer available for individual clubs. Other sites we can't get Yorkshire data on include the BBC, and Genuki.

Check your own site? Alexa link

PS - If you're piggybacking some big org like Geocities or Yahoo you'll just get the main site's rank. Sorry.