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Welcome to "On the Net Today". Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, we bring you a handpicked selection of three valuable and interesting online resources to help you get the most out of the internet and optimize your browsing time.

Here are the three resources we've prepared for today:

• Similarweb: rankings and audience data for websites and apps worldwide

• The 7, The Washington Post's morning newsletter and podcast 

• Free Pew Research course on how polling works

Similarweb: rankings and audience data for websites and apps worldwide

What are the most visited websites in the world? What is the ranking of the most popular websites by sectors or countries? The answer to these questions can be found on Similarweb, a company that offers audience analysis services for websites and apps worldwide.

Similarweb provides a basic level of information for free. For example, these are some of the rankings or data we can access without registering or paying for the service:

• Top Websites

• Top Android Apps

• Top iOS Apps

• Top Browsers

• Top Search Engines

• Mobile vs. Desktop

If we want to access specific basic data for a website or app, we need to register for free.

Additionally, Similarweb offers a wide range of professional services and premium tools for audience analysis and digital intelligence, with different pricing tiers based on the client's profile and the services they want to access.

Similarweb is a technology company founded in 2007 that specializes in analyzing digital audiences and providing information to companies worldwide interested in having the most comprehensive digital information about their competitive environment. Of Israeli origin, the company has offices in 12 countries and has been listed on the New York Stock Exchange since May 2021.

Link:

• Similarweb

The 7, The Washington Post's morning newsletter and podcast 

The Washington Post offers, among its many newsletters, a free morning bulletin titled "The 7," which provides a quick review of the seven most important and interesting news stories of the day in a brief, easily digestible format, every weekday from Monday to Friday.

The newsletter is also available in audio format on the website, and can be listened to as a podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and other platforms.

"The 7" is edited by journalists Hannah Jewell - who hosts the podcast - and  Jamie Ross.

The subscription page always displays the most recently published newsletter as a sample.

Link:

• The 7

Free Pew Research course on how polling works

Scott Keeter, the senior polling advisor at the U.S.-based Pew Research Center, who has been conducting various types of surveys and polls for 40 years, is the author of a brief, free-access course in English that explains how public opinion polls function.

The online course is divided into six short, easy-to-read lessons:

• Lesson 1: Why do we have opinion polls?

• Lesson 2: How does polling work?

• Lesson 3: What are the different kinds of polls?

• Lesson 4: What's the deal with election polls?

• Lesson 5: Is accurate polling becoming harder to do?

• Lesson 6: What should you look for in a poll?

In the introduction, Scott Keeter states, "In this course, we will attempt to provide you with a solid introduction to opinion polls. We will discuss the types of polling that are conducted and who conducts them. We will examine how polls work and answer questions such as 'How can a sample of just 1,000 people accurately represent the opinions of more than 260 million American adults?'"

According to the course author, "If the poll is well-designed, the collective responses can describe the thoughts and experiences of a much larger group of people from which the sample was chosen. Our goal in this course is to demystify how this actually occurs."

Links:

• Public Opinion Polling Basics

  A short course explaining how public opinion polling works

• Pew Research Center

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