Banking and Finance
Sites that facilitate banking and financial transactions online, providing investor or banking services and furnishing business and financial information. These include financial tools and services such as financial calculators, online banking, bills presentment and payment, Internet stock trading, statistics, charts, stock prices, financial planners, credit tools, currency converters, tax preparation, business accounting, financing services, investment advice, and the like.

Celebrities and Personalities
Sites that feature well-known personalities, highlighting personal achievements, interests, or their complete biography, among other topics. Sites focusing on musicians, actors and actresses, pop culture icons, sports teams, television personalities, politicians, and even fictional characters are included.

Community
Sites facilitating interaction, connectedness and communication. The focus is on tools and features that reinforce a sense of belonging such as community news and events, chat rooms, forums and mailing lists.

Corporate
Sites that provide information about a company, including its profile, history, portfolio, products and services, store locations, and the like. Covered are large corporations of all industries. Sites that focus on selling products or providing services online are excluded.

E-Commerce
Sites that sell goods or services on the Internet and facilitates online buying transactions. Included are retail and business-to-business sites as well as market exchanges and auction sites. Sites that feature a catalog of products without at least online ordering are excluded.

Home and Living
Sites that provide information on the improvement of personal health. These include sites on health and fitness, gardening, cooking, crafts, relationships, parenting, weddings, and the like.

Magazines and Zines
Literary sites and print magazine's online counterparts. Contents can be feature articles, fiction, poetry, interviews and reviews.

Music
All about the interest in and promotion of music, be it for awareness, research, resources or learning. Sites should contain or feature information about musical events, gigs, news, artists, composers, song notations and lyrics, album reviews and even multimedia features like streaming audio and video, MP3s and other audio file format.

Sites of record labels and radio stations are considered provided they contain the information previously cited. Excluded are sites focusing on corporate information or one particular artist.

News
Online versions of print or broadcast media and online-only news sites. Internet versions of newspapers, TV networks, campus journals, school organs, corporate newsletters, tabloids and similar media outlets are included.

Organizations
Cause-oriented, religious or non-profit organization sites belong to this category. Information may dwell on creating awareness, inciting members to action, or being knowledgeable about an organization - its mission, members and programs. Sites on social, political, environmental, consumer, health, religious, cultural and human rights issues are included. Civil society groups, foundations, non-government organizations, political and religious movements, consumer groups, trade or industry associations, school organizations, alumni associations, fraternities, sororities, churches, civic groups, sports clubs and the like are also considered.

Personal
Sites centering on a particular person or group, such as family and friends, with focus on interests, endeavors and background. Personal home pages must not be mainly about the business or organization of a person or group. Neither should they be about the art portfolio and literary work of a person or group. Blogs, or web logs, that are personal in nature are included.

SME's
Sites of small and medium enterprises in all industries. Information may be about the proprietor, company, products and services. Not included are sites selling products or providing services online. Large corporations are also excluded.