The four scores.

Reflects current activity over a short window. Combines outbound clicks, fresh inbound mentions, and engagement velocity. Decays quickly — a site falls out of Hot within a few days unless signals keep arriving.

Weighted entirely by first-detection recency. A domain we discovered today ranks above one we discovered yesterday. After a few weeks the New score is effectively zero.

Acceleration relative to a site's own baseline. A small site with a sudden 10× jump in signals can outrank a much larger site with steady traffic. Designed to surface things on the way up.

The long-term ranking score. Roughly:

• ~50% Tranco rank (global popularity).
• ~25% outbound clicks logged on this site.
• ~15% freshness signals (recent mentions, new content).
• ~10% quality and category coverage.

All inputs decay with time so the index doesn't ossify around whatever was popular a year ago.

The visit number on each card is an estimate, not measurement. It is derived from the site's Tranco rank using a power-law curve calibrated against publicly known traffic data. In plain terms: a site ranked around 100 sees billions of visits per month, a site ranked around 100,000 sees roughly hundreds of thousands, and the long tail sees a few thousand or fewer.

Treat the number as an order-of-magnitude signal. We display it instead of "first seen" because it tells you something useful about the site rather than something useful about us.

There is no way to pay to rank higher, no submission form, and no editorial override. Every rank comes from the formulas above applied to public data.