I made a Wplace Heatmap! (But with a lot of different other functions)
The link to the site: https://whynotshiny.github.io/WplaceRanking/
I mapped out all the 262144 regions on the map and painted them accordingly on how many pixels was painted on that region all time. There are many functions such as:
- Seeing the total number of pixels painted
- Average pixels per region
- Seeing how many regions all the country has
- Highlighting all the regions in map the country corresponds to
- See the trend of pixels painted over time in a region or country
- Locating regions and opening link in Wplace
- And a lot more.
The methodology for getting the pixels painted in the regions isn't 100% accurate as I use the inbuilt Wplace top 50 leaderboard function which itself isn't quite accurate by itself but there are other problems on my side. The pixels painted are the sum of top 50 individual painters in a region so full totals are only guaranteed for a country's own top 50 regions which is available in Wplace leaderboard. Any region outside it is underestimated, so totals skew low. For example, the United States shows roughly 6.5 billion pixels here versus an actual total closer to 8 billion. Treat all figures as a lower bound, not an exact count.
Everything was vibe coded using Claude but I did put quite a lot of effort so I hope you enjoy it!