The TFAO Digital Library

Usage and rankings

TFAO's web site is the world's most visited site devoted to American art.

For TFAO selected usage statistics totals please click here. Most sessions relate to Resource Library content.

For April 2, 2008 Ranking.com's rankings for the world's top million most visited web sites, TFAO's site [1] was ranked within the top 7% with the rank of 70,678.

Ranking.com's April 2, 2008 visitation rankings for other selected web sites specializing in American art:

• Addison Gallery of American Art <www.andover.edu/addison/home.htm> = not ranked
• Biggs Museum of American Art <www.biggsmuseum.org> = not ranked
• Butler Institute of American Art <www.butlerart.com> = 768,132
• Cahoon Museum of American Art <www.cahoonmuseum.org> = not ranked
• Georgia O'Keeffe Museum <okeeffemuseum.org> = 358,793
• Hunter Museum of American Art <www.huntermuseum.org> = not ranked
• Midwest Museum of American Art <midwestmuseum.us/> = not ranked
• Minnesota Museum of American Art <www.mmaa.org> = not ranked
• New Britain Museum of American Art <www.nbmaa.org> = 775,829
• Norman Rockwell Museum <nrm.org> = 125,173
• Ogunquit Museum of American Art <www.ogunquitmuseum.org> = not ranked
• Smithsonian American Art Museum <www.AmericanArt.si.edu> = not separately ranked, however entire Smithsonian Institution <si.edu> ranked 5,055
• Smithsonian Institution Archives of American Art <www.aaa.si.edu> = not separately ranked, however entire Smithsonian Institution <si.edu> ranked 5,055
• Westmoreland Museum of American Art <www.wmuseumaa.org> = not ranked
• Whitney Museum of American Art <www.whitney.org> = 301,935

TFAO's global web site visitation ranking from Alexa.com for May 6, 2008 was 128,119 [1] In March, 2008 netcraft.com reported 162,662,052 responding web sites in a global web server survey. Based on this information, TFAO ranks in the top 1% of all visited web sites.

For May, 2008 Alexa.com reported 64.3% of visits to TFAO's web site were from the United States and from other countries:

• United Kingdom 6.9%
• Germany 2.9%
• Canada 2.3%
• India 2.3%
• Iran 1.3%
• France1.0%
• Mexico1.0%
• Australia 0.9%
• Netherlands 0.8%
• Egypt 0.6%
• Russia 0.6%
• Indonesia 0.6%
• Brazil 0.5%
• Spain 0.4%
• Poland 0.4%
• Other countries13.0%

1 TFAO, which is a non-profit organization, acquired the contents of the tfaoi.com web site in 2003 from a for-profit company. In order to preserve the links and browser "bookmarks" and "favorites" that had accumulated since the 1996 initiation of the tfaoi.com web site, TFAO preserved the tfaoi.com domain for continuity. TFAO's hosting firm made the new .org domain reside under the old .com domain to provide the desired results. Therefore when seeking the ranking of TFAO's web site, if you enter tfaoi.org you will obtain no ranking, but when you enter tfaoi.com you will obtain TFAO's true ranking. "Advanced searches" using search engines operate under the same hierarchical principle. When you search under the tfaoi.com domain in Google you retrieve all relevant TFAO pages, but when you conduct the identical search with the tfaoi.org domain you retrieve very few or no pages.

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