Who’s got the most popular museum website in the world?
According to a website called Kunstpedia, which describes itself as “curators of art knowledge,” The Museum of Modern Art takes the blue ribbon, with the Metropolitan Museum of Art not far behind.
Kunstpedia analyzed more than 680 museum websites worldwide, and ranked them thusly:
The scores are determined by comparing ranking data such as those of Google Page Rank, Alexa Ranking and Compete Ranking. Furthermore the number on-line references in the form of incoming links and references in user generated content have been analysed. The end score was determined by the sum of each individual score, given on basis of the position within the different data source which were analysed.
UPDATE: Please see comment below from Dana Mitroff Silvers. As she points out, this study has problems that undermine its accuracy and were not explained on the Kunstpedia site.
Here’s the top ten, with their scores:
1
2 Metropolitan Museum of Art
3 Musée du Louvre
4 National Gallery of Art
5
6 J. Paul Getty Museum
7 Deutsches Historisches Museum
8
9 State
10
The entire list is here.
Kunstpedia also broke down the list by country, which you can read here. The top ten U.S. sites are:
1
2 Metropolitan Museum of Art
3 National Gallery of Art
4 J. Paul Getty Museum
5
6
7 Museum of Fine Arts,
8
9
10
Most popular doesn’t necessarily mean best, of course, but it’s something — something big.