Winners on the Web
Websites created by students of Oxford University are collectively more popular than the university's official site, the latest internet traffic data reveals.
TrafficRanking.com, which ranks the top 0.9m websites based on unique visitors and pages viewed per day, claim that the university's main site ox.ac.uk receives on average nearly 200 less views than the collection of student societies and JCR sites.
Oxford University's official site is found to be less popular than the sites for several British universities including Warwick, York and LSE, with Cambridge being ranked twice as high.
OxfordStudent.com is the nation's most visited online student paper, ranked 130,997th in the world with over 4,750 individual visitors daily, whilst Cherwell.org is unclassified, ranked outside the top 0.9m. Sites for OUSU and The Oxford Union suffer a similar fate.
Yahoo and MSN take the top two positions in the rankings, receiving over 25m "hits" a day between them. BBC News is the UK's most popular site, placed just outside the global top 100.
13th Nov 2003