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Health Site Rankings

 

Below is a routinely updated ranking of the Internet's most visited health sites, grouped into 1) natural health sites, and 2) all medical/health sites. That Mercola.com stands so high on these lists - and our visit patterns show only a continuing surge - is, at first glance, astounding. On deeper reflection, though, it also makes perfect sense. Why?

There are thousands, even tens of thousands, of Websites pertaining, in part or whole, to human health. Some raised directly or discreetly by mega-corporations, others by small to large medical and university organizations, and many more the project of health care practitioners or entrepreneurs. Sometimes their aims have been altruistic or at least forthright, but far too often, and reflecting trends in the traditional healthcare establishment at large, their goal has been to dazzle and deceive, to continue inventing medical agendas and need through glitzy and smooth-talking sites, toward their usual underlying motive: greed. Not profit. Greed.

Some may call the rise of Mercola.com astounding because it has been funded entirely by Dr. Mercola, and maintained by him and his very small team. No venture capital, no paid advertisements, no silent partners. No outside "interests," in other words, pounding on a board table and demanding we skew the facts to make a few extra bucks. Also astounding because, while we're escalating our efforts to make the site more efficient and intuitive, ours is not a carnival experience: no flashing lights, funhouse mirrors, or dancing clowns. Just Dr. Mercola's expert insight on human diet and health and his advice on how to improve yourself through optimal foods and life habits, presented in a straightforward, honest manner... and without those outside "interests" whose interests really have nothing to do with your well-being.

For those reasons, the rise of Mercola.com is astounding. But they're exactly why our success in these rankings also makes sense. You want knowledge that can improve your health - unadorned by excess bells and whistles and unafraid to offer advice that might offend the medical establishment, but also highly reputable and presented in a way that makes sense to the real world. That is Mercola.com. Numbers don't always tell the whole story, but our continued climb up these charts certainly suggests that the word is getting out - Mercola.com is about substance. It makes perfect sense.

IMPORTANT NOTE ON RANKING NUMBERS: The lower the Alexa ranking number below, the more popular the website. A website with an Alexa rank of 5000, for example, means of all the millions of websites that exist, that website is the 5000th most visited on the entire Internet. (If you are wondering what site ranks number one, that is Yahoo.com.)

Most Visited Natural Health Content Sites Jan 21, 2004
  Name URL Rank
1. Dr. Mercola www.mercola.com 5,103
2. Prevention Magazine www.prevention.com 8,770
3. Life Extension Foundation www.lef.org 10,229
4. Dr. Weil www.drweil.com 11,437
5. Health World Online www.healthy.net 14,650
6. Dr. Mirkin www.drmirkin.com 30,231
7. Chet Day www.chetday.com 37,173
8. Mothering www.mothering.com 39,026
9. Health Science Institute of Baltimore www.hsibaltimore.com 41,778
10. Chiro Web www.chiroweb.com 48,830
11. Dr. Stoll www.askwaltstollmd.com 56,377
12. Gary Craig's EFT www.emofree.com 57,836
13. La Leche League www.lalecheleague.org 61,212
14. Dr. Chopra www.chopra.com 61,341
15. Dr. D'Adamo www.dadamo.com 62,333
16. Dr. David Williams www.drdavidwilliams.com 72,764
17. RedFlagsWeekly www.redflagsweekly.com 76,491
18. Holistic Healing www.holisticmed.com 82,700
19. Environmental Working Group www.ewg.org 83,778
20. Gary Null's Natural Living www.garynull.com 88,305

Most Visited Health Content Sites Jan 21, 2004
  Name URL Rank
1. National Institutes of Health www.nih.gov 312
2. WebMD www.webmd.com 685
3. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention www.cdc.gov 2,039
4. Medscape www.medscape.com 2,817
5. American Medical Association www.ama-assn.org 4,894
6. Dr. Mercola www.mercola.com 5,103
7. Mayo Clinic www.mayoclinic.com 5,206
8. Medicine Net www.medicinenet.com 6,521
9. British Medical Journal bmj.bmjjournals.com 6,592
10. New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org 7,569
11. Prevention Magazine www.prevention.com 8,770
12. Life Extension Foundation www.lef.org 10,229
13. Doctor's Guide www.docguide.com 10,408
14. Dr. Weil www.drweil.com 11,437
15. American Psychological Association www.apa.org 13,097
16. MD Consult www.mdconsult.com 13,477

These rankings are provided by Alexa.com, an independent Website that provides similar rankings for all sectors of the Internet. Websites such as CNN and MSNBC that offer health information among many other subject areas are not included in the rankings here, as traffic to these specific areas of their sites cannot be separated from traffic to their entire site. If you believe any medical or health Website has been overlooked, please check their name at www.alexa.com or contact us.

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