Stanford’s Web site is the second most popular university site worldwide, a site ranking organization said last week.

4icu.org, an organization that ranks universities according to the popularity of their Web sites, said last week that Stanford trails only the Massachusetts Institute of Technology among some 200 universities in its 2010 ranking.

The group draws its data from Google Page Rank, Yahoo! Inbound Links and Alexa Traffic Rank.

Rounding out the top five were Harvard, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and UC-Berkeley.

“We do not — by any means — claim to rank organisations, or their programs, by the quality of education or level of services provided,” the group said on its Web site.