The most popular Python sites in 2014

In January 2014 I've published an article about the popularity of Perl in 2013. In that article I've also included a number of Python sites as well. This year I've moved the Python part to this article and added a lot more sites.

As I don't have access to the logs of these sites, the second best approach I found is to look at the Alexa ranking of the sites. While it is far from being perfect it seems to have a strong correllation to what Google Analytics report. See the relationship between Alexa ranking and pageviews.

This year for most of the sites I only have the current ranking, but it can already provide you some insight. Next year it will be really interesting to see how each one of these sites have changed.

site	15 Jan 2013	1 Jan 2014	1 Jan 2015
python.org	4,249	3,874	2,475
djangoproject.com	12,708	9,599	7,139
pocoo.org (flask, lucumr)	-	-	26,688
ipython.org	-	-	28,343
learnpythonthehardway.org	88,649	42,028	30,014
www.scipy.org	-	-	30,256
effbot.org	-	-	60,833
www.djangopackages.com	-	-	93,541
inventwithpython.com	-	-	109,030
sphinx-doc.org	-	-	109,463
realpython.com	-	-	118,296
www.web2py.com	-	-	130,116
jupo.org (Mezzanine, Cartridge)	-	-	168,742
www.pylonsproject.org	-	-	176,247
www.fullstackpython.com	-	-	234,356
www.numpy.org	-	-	245,098
www.diveintopython3.net	-	-	269,314
www.blog.pythonlibrary.org	-	-	292,390
www.djangosites.org	-	-	321,648
www.pydanny.com	-	-	379,575
newcoder.io	-	-	425,963
www.djangorocks.com	-	-	789,620
doughellmann.com	-	-	792,242
pythonblogs.com	-	-	909,416
www.turbogears.org	-	-	1,067,843
planetpython.org	-	-	1,122,377
www.cubicweb.org	-	-	1,768,993

(www.web2py.com, turbogears, cubicweb, and pylonsproject were only added on 17 February with Alexa numbers from that date)

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