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November 24, 2025

Host- and Domain-Level Web Graphs September, October, and November 2025

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We are pleased to announce the release of the web graphs based on the crawls of September, October, and November of 2025, consisting of 235.7 million nodes and 9.5 billion edges at the host level, and 100.7 million nodes and 6.6 billion edges at the domain level.
Malte Ostendorff
Malte Ostendorff
Malte is a Senior Research Engineer at Common Crawl, based in Berlin, Germany. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Göttingen.

We are pleased to announce a new release of host-level and domain-level web graphs based on the crawls of September, October, and November 2025. The crawls used to generate the graphs were CC-MAIN-2025-38, CC-MAIN-2025-43, and CC-MAIN-2025-47. Additional information about the data formats, the processing pipeline, our objectives, and credits can be found in the announcements of prior Web Graph Releases. You may also visit the projects cc-webgraph and cc-pyspark which include all scripts and tools required to construct the graphs. Instructions to explore the graphs in the webgraph format are given in our collection of Web Graph Notebooks. You may also wish to explore our Web Graph Statistics page for more information on ranking.

Host-level Graph

The host-level graph consists of 235.7 million nodes and 9.5 billion edges.

There are 177.5 million dangling nodes (75.33%) and the largest strongly connected component contains 37.3 million (15.85%) nodes. Dangling nodes stem from:

  • Hosts that have not been crawled, yet are pointed to from a link on a crawled page
  • Hosts without any links pointing to a different host name
  • Hosts which did only return an error page (eg. HTTP 404).

Host names in the graph are in reverse domain name notation and a leading www. is stripped: www.subdomain.example.com becomes com.example.subdomain.

You can download the graph and the ranks of all 235.7 million hosts from AWS S3 on the path s3://commoncrawl/projects/hyperlinkgraph/cc-main-2025-sep-oct-nov/host/ (this requires an account on AWS). Alternatively, you can use https://data.commoncrawl.org/projects/hyperlinkgraph/cc-main-2025-sep-oct-nov/host/ as prefix to access the files from everywhere.

Please note that the text representation of the host-level graph is shipped in 64 gzip-compressed files listed in two path listings - one for the nodes (vertices), one for the edges (arcs). First, download the paths listing and decompress it using gzip -d or gunzip. By adding the prefix s3://commoncrawl/ or https://data.commoncrawl.org/ to each line in the path listing you get the list of URLs to download the entire graph.

Download files of the Common Crawl September, October, and November 2025 host-level Web Graph

Size File Description
174 Bytes cc-main-2025-sep-oct-nov-host-vertices.paths.gz nodes ⟨id, rev host⟩, paths of 16 vertices files
258 Bytes cc-main-2025-sep-oct-nov-host-edges.paths.gz edges ⟨from_id, to_id⟩, paths of 48 edges files
14.9 GiB cc-main-2025-sep-oct-nov-host.graph graph in BVGraph format
1.3 KiB cc-main-2025-sep-oct-nov-host.properties
15.3 GiB cc-main-2025-sep-oct-nov-host-t.graph transpose of the graph (outlinks inverted to inlinks)
1.3 KiB cc-main-2025-sep-oct-nov-host-t.properties
818 Bytes cc-main-2025-sep-oct-nov-host.stats WebGraph statistics
4.6 GiB cc-main-2025-sep-oct-nov-host-ranks.txt.gz harmonic centrality and pagerank

Domain-level Graph

The domain graph is built by aggregating the host graph on the level of pay-level domains (PLDs) based on the public suffix list maintained on publicsuffix.org. Version (commit) 8e3b7b7 of the public suffix list was used (commit date 2025-10-29T17:39:13Z).

The domain-level graph has 100.7 million nodes and 6.6 billion edges. 54.2% or 54.6 million nodes are dangling nodes, the largest strongly connected component covers 32.1 million or 31.89% of the nodes.

All files related to the domain graph are available on AWS S3 under s3://commoncrawl/projects/hyperlinkgraph/cc-main-2025-sep-oct-nov/domain/or on https://data.commoncrawl.org/projects/hyperlinkgraph/cc-main-2025-sep-oct-nov/domain/.

Download files of the Common Crawl September, October, and November 2025 domain-level Web Graph

Size File Description
704.8 MiB cc-main-2025-sep-oct-nov-domain-vertices.txt.gz nodes ⟨id, rev domain, num hosts⟩
23.2 GiB cc-main-2025-sep-oct-nov-domain-edges.txt.gz edges ⟨from_id, to_id⟩
10.9 GiB cc-main-2025-sep-oct-nov-domain.graph graph in BVGraph format
1.3 KiB cc-main-2025-sep-oct-nov-domain.properties
11.0 GiB cc-main-2025-sep-oct-nov-domain-t.graph transpose of the graph
1.3 KiB cc-main-2025-sep-oct-nov-domain-t.properties
790 Bytes cc-main-2025-sep-oct-nov-domain.stats WebGraph statistics
2.0 GiB cc-main-2025-sep-oct-nov-domain-ranks.txt.gz harmonic centrality and pagerank

Credits

Thanks to the authors of the WebGraph framework, whose software made the computation of graph properties and ranks possible. We hope the data will be useful for you to do any kind of research on ranking, graph analysis, link spam detection, etc.

Let us know about your results via Common Crawl's Google Group, or on our Discord Server.

This release was authored by:
Malte is a Senior Research Engineer at Common Crawl, based in Berlin, Germany. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Göttingen.
Malte Ostendorff

Erratum: 

Content is truncated

Originally reported by: 
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Some archived content is truncated due to fetch size limits imposed during crawling. This is necessary to handle infinite or exceptionally large data streams (e.g., radio streams). Prior to March 2025 (CC-MAIN-2025-13), the truncation threshold was 1 MiB. From the March 2025 crawl onwards, this limit has been increased to 5 MiB.

For more details, see our truncation analysis notebook.