Web Site Ranking Service Provides Valuable Statistics to the Global Anti-Censorship Community

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--World's Gate, Inc. (http://edoors.com) today released a Beta version of its “Ranking” service at http://ranking.edoors.com.

“The feedback we got from various groups when we asked for their comments before the release was enormously positive”

Hundreds of thousands of web users in closed societies around the world have been using various anti-censorship or anti-jamming tools in recent years to circumvent Internet blockades created by totalitarian regimes.

Until now, however, it was virtually impossible for the industry or anyone else – governments, NGOs, and the academic community — to access the traffic statistics of these users in their research and decision-making.

World's Gate (WG) has now taken the lead in making this valuable, first-hand website traffic ranking information available to the public. The Ranking service shows which sites have been visited using the world-leading global anti-censorship network of Global Internet Freedom Consortium (GIFC) member companies and presents statistics of those sites. Together, these companies carry more than 95% of the total anti-jamming Internet traffic from closed societies and dictatorships, such as Iran, China, Vietnam, and Burma. Not all the tools of GIFC members have yet been included in the calculation of the statistics but steps will be taken to do so in the future.

The Ranking service site shows histograms of website rankings based on the amount of traffic, number of pages viewed, and number of server hits through GIFC network. The site also shows the most popular websites visited and organizes popular sites by category and language. The “Anti-Censorship Top 10” (“ACT10”) and “Anti-Censorship Top 100” (“ACT100”) website lists are updated on a daily basis.

“The feedback we got from various groups when we asked for their comments before the release was enormously positive,” said Alex Wang, Vice President of WG. He continued, “With this new Ranking service, we're happy we can now provide researchers and NGO's with the in-depth reports on traffic statistics that they need. It's one other way we can help improve the free flow of information on the Internet.”