Google.com continues to dominate the digital landscape, ranking as the most linked-to website worldwide with 468,745 referring subnets as of December 2024. Facebook.com follows closely in second place with 470,479 referring subnets, while YouTube.com ranked third with 417,827.

In November 2024, Google.com was the most popular website worldwide with 136 billion average monthly visits. The online platform has held the top spot as the most popular website since June 2010, when it pulled ahead of Yahoo into first place. Second-ranked YouTube generated more than 72.8 billion monthly visits in the measured period. The internet leaders: search, social, and e-commerce Social networks, search engines, and e-commerce websites shape the online experience as we know it. While Google leads the global online search market by far, YouTube and Facebook have become the world’s most popular websites for user generated content, solidifying Alphabet’s and Meta’s leadership over the online landscape. Meanwhile, websites such as Amazon and eBay generate millions in profits from the sale and distribution of goods, making the e-market sector an integral part of the global retail scene. What is next for online content? Powering social media and websites like Reddit and Wikipedia, user-generated content keeps moving the internet’s engines. However, the rise of generative artificial intelligence will bring significant changes to how online content is produced and handled. ChatGPT is already transforming how online search is performed, and news of Google's 2024 deal for licensing Reddit content to train large language models (LLMs) signal that the internet is likely to go through a new revolution. While AI's impact on the online market might bring both opportunities and challenges, effective content management will remain crucial for profitability on the web.

Google.com was the website with the most page views per day in Bolivia in February 2022, according to ranking by Alexa. The website had more than ***** daily page views and was followed by Unitel.bo, with ** page views per day that month. Within Latin America, Mexico was the country where Amazon Alexa contained the largest number of skills.

A complete list of live websites using the SE Ranking technology, compiled through global website indexing conducted by WebTechSurvey.

Designed and produced by the World Wide Web Foundation, the Web Index is the world’s first measure of the World Wide Web’s contribution to social, economic and political progress in countries across the world. http://thewebindex.org/about/ Scores are given in the areas of universal access; freedom and openness; relevant content; and empowerment. First released in 2012, the 2014-15 Index has been expanded and refined to include a total of 86 countries and features an enhanced data set, particularly in the areas of gender, Open Data, privacy rights and censorship. The Index combines existing secondary data with new primary data derived from an evidence-based expert assessment survey. The Web Index provides an objective and robust evidence base to inform public dialogue on the steps needed for societies to leverage greater value from the Web. It is published annually and resources permitting, it will continue to be expanded to cover more countries in the coming years. It will eventually allow for comparisons of trends over time and the benchmarking of performance across countries, continuously improving our understanding of the Web’s value for humanity.

Using four metrics—**Authority Score, Referring Domains, Citation Flow, and Trust Flow**—with an equal weight of 25%, SCImago constructs an overall indicator that reflects media websites’ digital reputation. The results define their relative position in the ranking and permit a comparison of digital development and leadership.

☢️❓The entire dataset is obtained from public and open-access data of SCImago Media Rankings

The SCImago Institutions Rankings (SIR) is a classification of academic and research-related institutions ranked by a composite indicator that combines three different sets of indicators based on research performance, innovation outputs and societal impact measured by their web visibility. It provides a friendly interface that allows the visualization of any customized ranking from the combination of these three sets of indicators. Additionally, it is possible to compare the trends for individual indicators of up to six institutions. For each large sector it is also possible to obtain distribution charts of the different indicators. For comparative purposes, the value of the composite indicator has been set on a scale of 0 to 100. However the line graphs and bar graphs always represent ranks (lower is better, so the highest values are the worst).

Content

The Times Higher Education (by subject) rankings have been retrieved from the official THE website. While the THE by subject rankings vary w.r.t. the periods they cover, the overall THE rankings comprise the respective data from 2011-2020. Also the data by the Center for World University Rankings have been retrieved from the center's website and they cover the period from 2012-2020.

Individual THE by subject rankings can be accessed via the columnsubject:

• Arts & Humanities
• Business & Economics
• Clinical, pre-clinical & health
• Computer science
• Education
• Engineering & Technology
• Law
• Life sciences
• Physical sciences
• Psychology
• Social sciences

Inspiration

These data may contribute to answer the following questions: - How do university rankings change over time? - Which characteristics of universities contribute most to good rankings, or to large changes in the ranking position? - How do these characteristics correlate with characteristics of cities or countries in which the university is located? - Are there predictors for increases or decreases in the rankings? - etc.

Analysis of ‘QS World University Rankings 2017 - 2022’ provided by Analyst-2 (analyst-2.ai), based on source dataset retrieved from https://www.kaggle.com/padhmam/qs-world-university-rankings-2017-2022 on 13 February 2022.

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Context

QS World University Rankings is an annual publication of global university rankings by Quacquarelli Symonds. The QS ranking receives approval from the International Ranking Expert Group (IREG), and is viewed as one of the three most-widely read university rankings in the world. QS publishes its university rankings in partnership with Elsevier.

Content

This dataset contains university data from the year 2017 to 2022. It has a total of 15 features. - university - name of the university - year - year of ranking - rank_display - rank given to the university - score - score of the university based on the six key metrics mentioned above - link - link to the university profile page on QS website - country - country in which the university is located - city - city in which the university is located - region - continent in which the university is located - logo - link to the logo of the university - type - type of university (public or private) - research_output - quality of research at the university - student_faculty_ratio - number of students assigned to per faculty - international_students - number of international students enrolled at the university - size - size of the university in terms of area - faculty_count - number of faculty or academic staff at the university

Acknowledgements

This dataset was acquired by scraping the QS World University Rankings website with Python and Selenium. Cover Image: Source

Inspiration

Some of the questions that can be answered with this dataset, 1. What makes a best ranked university? 2. Does the location of a university play a role in its ranking? 3. What do the best universities have in common? 4. How important is academic research for a university? 5. Which country is preferred by international students?

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The average for 2024 based on 175 countries was 5.42 index points. The highest value was in Iran: 10 index points and the lowest value was in Iceland: 0.2 index points. The indicator is available from 2007 to 2024. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

Explore the historical Whois records related to global-ranking.com (Domain). Get insights into ownership history and changes over time.

Journals & Ranking

An academic journal or research journal is a periodical publication in which research articles relating to a particular academic discipline is published, according to Wikipedia. Currently, there are more than 25,000 peer-reviewed journals that are indexed in citation index databases such as Scopus and Web of Science. These indexes are ranked on the basis of various metrics such as CiteScore, H-index, etc. The metrics are calculated from yearly citation data of the journal. A lot of efforts are given to make a metric that reflects the journal's quality.

Journal Ranking Dataset

This is a comprehensive dataset on the academic journals coving their metadata information as well as citation, metrics, and ranking information. Detailed data on their subject area is also given in this dataset. The dataset is collected from the following indexing databases: - Scimago Journal Ranking - Scopus - Web of Science Master Journal List

The data is collected by scraping and then it was cleaned, details of which can be found in HERE.

Key Features

• Rank: Overall rank of journal (derived from sorted SJR index).
• Title: Name or title of journal.
• OA: Open Access or not.
• Country: Country of origin.
• SJR-index: A citation index calculated by Scimago.
• CiteScore: A citation index calculated by Scopus.
• H-index: Hirsh index, the largest number h such that at least h articles in that journal were cited at least h times each.
• Best Quartile: Top Q-index or quartile a journal has in any subject area.
• Best Categories: Subject areas with top quartile.
• Best Subject Area: Highest ranking subject area.
• Best Subject Rank: Rank of the highest ranking subject area.
• Total Docs.: Total number of documents of the journal.
• Total Docs. 3y: Total number of documents in the past 3 years.
• Total Refs.: Total number of references of the journal.
• Total Cites 3y: Total number of citations in the past 3 years.
• Citable Docs. 3y: Total number of citable documents in the past 3 years.
• Cites/Doc. 2y: Total number of citations divided by the total number of documents in the past 2 years.
• Refs./Doc.: Total number of references divided by the total number of documents.
• Publisher: Name of the publisher company of the journal.
• Core Collection: Web of Science core collection name.
• Coverage: Starting year of coverage.
• Active: Active or inactive.
• In-Press: Articles in press or not.
• ISO Language Code: Three-letter ISO 639 code for language.
• ASJC Codes: All Science Journal Classification codes for the journal.

Rest of the features provide further details on the journal's subject area or category: - Life Sciences: Top level subject area. - Social Sciences: Top level subject area. - Physical Sciences: Top level subject area. - Health Sciences: Top level subject area. - 1000 General: ASJC main category. - 1100 Agricultural and Biological Sciences: ASJC main category. - 1200 Arts and Humanities: ASJC main category. - 1300 Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: ASJC main category. - 1400 Business, Management and Accounting: ASJC main category. - 1500 Chemical Engineering: ASJC main category. - 1600 Chemistry: ASJC main category. - 1700 Computer Science: ASJC main category. - 1800 Decision Sciences: ASJC main category. - 1900 Earth and Planetary Sciences: ASJC main category. - 2000 Economics, Econometrics and Finance: ASJC main category. - 2100 Energy: ASJC main category. - 2200 Engineering: ASJC main category. - 2300 Environmental Science: ASJC main category. - 2400 Immunology and Microbiology: ASJC main category. - 2500 Materials Science: ASJC main category. - 2600 Mathematics: ASJC main category. - 2700 Medicine: ASJC main category. - 2800 Neuroscience: ASJC main category. - 2900 Nursing: ASJC main category. - 3000 Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: ASJC main category. - 3100 Physics and Astronomy: ASJC main category. - 3200 Psychology: ASJC main category. - 3300 Social Sciences: ASJC main category. - 3400 Veterinary: ASJC main category. - 3500 Dentistry: ASJC main category. - 3600 Health Professions: ASJC main category.

In May 2020, YouTube generated over 5.3 billion global visits via organic search traffic. Second-ranked Wikipedia accumulated less than half of that, claiming 2.2 billion organic search visits. Social network Facebook rounded off the top properties with more than a billion organic search visits during the measured period.

Web Performance Testing Market size was valued at USD 3.22 Billion in 2024 and is projected to reach USD 8.14 Billion by 2031, growing at a CAGR of 8.72% during the forecast period 2024-2031.

Global Web Performance Testing Market Drivers

The market drivers for the Web Performance Testing Market can be influenced by various factors. These may include:

Increased Internet and Mobile Usage: The proliferation of internet users globally and the surge in mobile device usage means that more people are accessing websites and web applications through various devices and networks. This diversity necessitates robust performance testing to ensure a consistent user experience across all platforms. Rising E-commerce and Online Services: The growth of e-commerce and online services demands that websites perform optimally at all times. Slow load times or downtime can directly translate to lost revenue and poor customer satisfaction. Hence, businesses must continuously test and optimize their web performance to remain competitive. User Experience (UX) Focus: Companies are increasingly prioritizing user experience as a key differentiator. A smooth, responsive, and fast website is essential for retaining visitors and enhancing user satisfaction. Performance testing helps in identifying and resolving issues that could hinder UX. SEO and Digital Marketing: Search engines like Google consider page load times and overall web performance as critical factors in their ranking algorithms. Websites that load faster are more likely to rank higher, driving organic traffic and improving visibility. Performance testing ensures websites meet these criteria. Complex Web Applications: Modern web applications often involve complex interactions, real-time updates, and integrations with other services. Ensuring these applications function correctly under various conditions requires comprehensive performance testing. Regulatory Requirements: Several industries are subject to regulatory requirements that mandate specific performance standards for websites, particularly for accessibility and user data protection. Compliance necessitates regular performance testing. Competitive Pressure: In a crowded digital marketplace, even minor performance improvements can provide a competitive edge. Companies invest in performance testing to stay ahead of or keep up with competitors. Technology Advancements: Innovations in web technologies (like Progressive Web Apps, Single Page Applications, etc.) necessitate new and improved testing methodologies. The adoption of these new technologies requires businesses to adapt and enhance their performance testing strategies. Cloud Adoption: The increasing use of cloud services and decentralized architectures facilitates scalability but also introduces performance variability. Cloud-based web performance testing tools are essential to monitor and optimize performance in such environments. Customer Expectations: The modern consumer expects instantaneous access to information and services. Even slight delays can result in frustration and abandonment. Meeting these heightened customer expectations is a major driver for continuous web performance testing. A/B Testing and Optimization: Businesses frequently use A/B testing to optimize website elements for conversion improvements. Performance testing ensures that these optimizations do not negatively impact load times or responsiveness. Emerging Markets and Global Reach: As businesses expand globally, they must ensure their websites perform well across different geographies, which may have varied network conditions and device usage patterns. Performance testing is crucial for maintaining a global online presence.

This dataset tracks annual overall school rank from 2010 to 2022 for Baker Web Academy

In February 2025, jomashop.com ranked as the most visited jewelry and luxury goods website worldwide. That month, the premium site garnered over eight million website visitors. Therealreal.com ranked second, with around seven million visitors, followed by saksfifthavenue.com at about six million.

This dataset tracks annual overall school rank from 2011 to 2022 for External Sites

The average for 2024 based on 138 countries was 5.56 points. The highest value was in Finland: 7.74 points and the lowest value was in Afghanistan: 1.72 points. The indicator is available from 2013 to 2024. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

As of 2024, WordPress.org is the leading website builder in the world, accounting for over ** percent of global market share. Wix and Squarespace ranked as the second and third most popular website building platforms, each of which accounted for ** and *** percent respectively of market share. Website builders Website building tools such as Wix and Squarespace allow for users to construct and manage customizable websites without the need for advanced coding knowledge. These platforms often include customizable design templates and offer extensions for e-commerce and mailing lists. Although Wix has the biggest worldwide market share, Weebly and Squarespace rank as the most popular platforms in the United States. As the functionality offered by these platforms increases, so too does the market’s overall revenue figure. Between 2012 and 2017 website builder revenue increased from around ****billion U.S. dollars to over *** billion dollars. As overall web traffic and global internet access continue to rise, it has become increasingly important for businesses to have an online site for sales, marketing, and general contact information. These website building tools allow businesses of all sizes to maintain an online presence without having to spend huge sums of money on web design or coding.

Website Maintenance Services Market Outlook

The global website maintenance services market size is projected to grow from USD 8.5 billion in 2023 to USD 15.6 billion by 2032, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 6.8% during the forecast period. This market is experiencing robust growth due to the increasing digitalization of businesses, the growing importance of cybersecurity, and the need for regular content updates to improve user experience and search engine rankings.

One of the foremost growth factors for the website maintenance services market is the increasing reliance on digital platforms by businesses of all sizes. As online presence becomes crucial for survival and growth, companies need to ensure their websites are up-to-date, secure, and optimized for performance. The rise of e-commerce, especially post-pandemic, has driven businesses to invest significantly in maintaining their websites to ensure seamless user experience, which in turn pushes the demand for maintenance services.

Another significant growth driver is the heightened focus on cybersecurity. As cyber threats and attacks become more sophisticated, businesses are increasingly aware of the need to protect their digital assets. Regular website maintenance, including security management and system updates, is essential to safeguard against cyber threats, data breaches, and vulnerabilities. This necessity to maintain secure websites is propelling the demand for comprehensive maintenance services, particularly in industries like BFSI and healthcare, where data security is paramount.

The ever-evolving algorithms of search engines like Google also contribute to the market's growth. To remain competitive in search engine rankings, businesses need to frequently update their websites with fresh, relevant content, and ensure their sites are fast and mobile-friendly. This requires ongoing maintenance and optimization, services that many businesses prefer to outsource to specialized maintenance firms. The need for performance optimization and regular updates is thus a critical driving factor in the market.

From a regional perspective, North America holds a significant share of the market due to the early adoption of advanced technologies and the presence of major industry players. However, the Asia Pacific region is expected to witness the highest growth rate during the forecast period. The rapid digital transformation of businesses in countries like China, India, and Japan, coupled with the increasing number of SMEs seeking to enhance their online presence, contributes to this robust growth.

In the realm of website maintenance, WordPress Site Management Software has emerged as a pivotal tool for businesses looking to streamline their digital operations. This software offers a comprehensive suite of features designed to simplify the management of WordPress websites, which are among the most popular platforms for businesses worldwide. With capabilities such as automated updates, security enhancements, and performance monitoring, WordPress Site Management Software enables businesses to maintain optimal website functionality with minimal manual intervention. This is particularly beneficial for small and medium-sized enterprises that may not have dedicated IT teams. By leveraging such software, businesses can ensure their websites remain secure, up-to-date, and competitive in the ever-evolving digital landscape.

Service Type Analysis

Regular updates are a fundamental component of website maintenance services. These updates ensure that the websiteÂ’s content stays relevant, engaging, and in line with the latest industry trends. Regular updates also involve ensuring that the website's software and plugins are up-to-date, which is crucial for both security and performance. Businesses are increasingly recognizing the importance of keeping their websites updated to attract and retain visitors, reduce bounce rates, and improve SEO rankings.

Security management is another critical service type within the website maintenance market. With the rise in cyber threats, businesses are more vigilant about protecting their websites from potential attacks. Security management services encompass activities such as installing security patches, monitoring for vulnerabilities, performing regular security audits, and ensuring compliance with data protection regulations. The increasing sophistication of cyber threats and the high cos