One million (small web) screenshots

Posted by squidhunter 12/22/2025

One million (small web) screenshots(nry.me)

166 points | 22 comments

foxfired 12/27/2025|

I found my own blog [0]. But interestingly, it is missing the letter I in screenshot starting from July 2025.

[0]: https://onemillionscreenshots.com/idiallo.com/screenshot

KomoD 12/28/2025||

If it was unclear, OP's site is screenshots.nry.me, not onemillionscreenshots.com

chrismorgan 12/27/2025||

There are many patches of almost-identical sites.

Some of them are due to many people using the same theme.

Some of them are expired or parked domains, which I reckon should be detected and excluded.

coldpie 12/27/2025||

Yeah those clusters are interesting. They stand out, so they are the first thing I zoomed in on, then I realized they're all just stock resume sites. Quickly realize the clusters are something to avoid. Turns out to be an effective visualization method.

chrismorgan 12/27/2025||

The thing I find interesting is where the grouping is robust to colour variations: one of the bigger groups is around 25% from left, 20% from bottom, all one theme but in a wide variety of colours.

Thorrez 12/28/2025|||

Yeah, I wonder why parked domains are included. Are there not at least 1 million actual websites?

stackghost 12/27/2025||

>Some of them are due to many people using the same theme.

Teeming masses of sites using what probably seems to the authors as a fresh, unconventional look but ends up being Yet Another.

arjie 12/27/2025||

I doubt anyone selecting a popular theme is confused by the fact that it’s popular. I use the default Mediawiki theme for mine, for instance.

frankcaron 12/27/2025||

I found my own site, as well, and I found that particularly charming.

Recently went back [0] to the open web and feel like this inclusion alone justified that move.

Thanks for sharing. Humble and heart-warming way to end 2025 for an old Internet man.

[0]: https://frankycaron.medium.com/of-an-open-web-rebirth-and-bi...

vintagedave 12/27/2025||

I’m curious how the choice of which blog is located next to which was made. The writeup mentions “dimensionality”. I found my blog, and the eight surrounding it are interesting people, but every one of them is an AI researcher with degrees from Berkeley or similar, and the sites are predominantly CVs.

Luminous company but not my level, nor is my blog about AI, nor is it a CV. I can’t see any reason for the location.

coldpie 12/27/2025|

I think it is literally by the colors of the screenshots. Nothing to do with the contents.

> I just want to encode the high level aesthetic details of webpage screenshots. Because of this, I fell back on an old friend: the triplet loss on top of a small encoder. The resulting output dimension of 64 afforded ample room for describing the visual range while maintaining a considerably smaller footprint.

jot 12/27/2025||

So good to see this different approach! The clustering looks really cool and love that the focus is not on the most popular websites.

Here’s another Christmassy alternative: https://display.archive.org/xmas

I’m one of the makers of OneMillionScreenshots.com and I’m currently working on an update to it.

AndrewStephens 12/27/2025||

I started by finding my own blog and scrolling north, south, east, and west to see my neighbours. I’ve already found several interesting sites and a new person to follow on mastodon.

It’s a shame there doesn’t seem to be any way to link to a particular position on the map but great stuff nevertheless.

cosmicgadget 12/27/2025||

That's a lot of fun to explore. I'm not entirely convinced by the "you can judge a book by its cover" thing, there are so many "Hi, I'm _____" pages that might have content or might just be portfolio stubs.

yoyo250 12/27/2025||

Maybe can add a timeline and clock

Timeline: view older versions

Clock: view light/dark mode theme according to user time zone (or enable dark/light mode manually)

I'm also a bit curious, since most web pages are predominantly white, how many of them are adapted to dark mode?

ErroneousBosh 12/27/2025||

Shit, my blog is on there. I should post on it more frequently than once every two years.

My forum isn't, though. With a post every day or so and nearly 50 active users, it's probably not "small web" any more :-D

nickradford 12/27/2025|

Oh wow, my little profile/blog is on here, nice!

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