The large majority of the pages on Tenuous Links are allocated an Interest Area. We have used these Interest Areas to discover what are the most interesting sites on the web according to the users of Tenuous Links.

We’ve accounted for each Interest Area having different numbers of pages in our analysis, and we’ve also filtered out Interest Areas that don’t really mean anything such as “General”.

With that factored in, the top tenuous most interesting types of website in 2010 are:

Shopping
Gadgets
Love
Marketing
Web Design
Motoring
Electricals
Children
Photography
Business

About Tenuous Links

TenuousLinks.co.uk is a social networking portal that champions the best of the World Wide Web. It comprises a directory of the web’s best websites, a blogging facility that allows it’s users to expunge the web’s hidden gems and some microblogging functionality for those occasions when you just need to get something said.

The social networking aspect of Tenuous Links allows it’s members to tenuously link to each other. By doing this members of Tenuous Links can each other’s activity on the site. This could include the publication of a blog page (an activity we call TLogging), the storing of a favourite link, or indeed subsequent tenuous linking to other members.

Members of Tenuous Links can also message each other using the microblogging service that we call TLitter. They can do this in public or messages can be whispered so that they are only visible to the sender and the intended recipient.