Blogs are red, huge web sites are blue . . .

March 25, 2009 | MG Siegler | Comments | |

Do you ever notice how a lot of websites you visit frequently look the same? Well, it’s not just their layouts, it’s also their colors. The design site Antrepo4.com has created a list of the biggest blogs, design sites, game sites and overall sites organized by color.

The results show a clear overall trend: Blogs favor red (like VentureBeat), design sites favor gray, game sites favor green and the massive sites, like Google, Facebook and MySpace, favor blue. But the results aren’t uniform, and actually, if you average all the colors together in all the categories, you get a nearly uniform light gray color.

And the results might not be the best in the world, since Antrepo4 used Alexa, a generally bad measurement tool for site traffic, for the global, design and game site data. And it used Technorati, which also is hardly a good measuring tool, for site size (instead it measures incoming links), for the blogs.

Still, it’s a pretty interesting way to look at the web, which the site claims contains about 225,000,000 sites as of March 2009. The Antrepo Design Industry hopes to have posters for the results on its site soon.

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MG Siegler writes about technology trends and new media for VentureBeat, with a focus on mobile topics, social elements and key news stories. Before that, MG wrote about technology on his blog, ParisLemon. Originally from Ohio, MG attended the University of Michigan where he studied film. He's previously lived in Los Angeles where he worked in Hollywood and in San Diego where he did web development. He now lives in San Francisco.

  • nickgonzalez
    That is incredibly cool and pretty.

    How appropriate that the whole internet averages to one bland gray mass...
  • I completely agree. That's how the world will be when the nanobots take over.
  • I vividly remember this fabric pattern from the 1970s. Cool kids did not wear this.

    I repeat. Cool kids did not wear this.

    Let's hope our nanobot overlords are benevolent, wise, and able to construct Twizzlers on demand.
  • Brendan
    White mass ;)
  • Oops.Its very surprising to see such generalization among such wide array of sites. Its a good endeavor indeed!
  • I'm not so sure about that - two of the world's biggest blogs, Engadget and Gizmodo, are both blue.
  • Trent
    Never know what color you will end up!
    Check out the ray of rainbow colors at Lubbock Website Design.
  • Eh..it's websites categorized by color. Not exactly groundbreaking to use colors to assign characteristics to things.
  • Good comment Nick! Indeed...pretty colours!