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.
From March to August 2025, March was the month that had the most website traffic to ebay.com. The consumer-to-consumer (C2C) e-commerce website reached a total of over ****million visits in that month, with the majority being from mobile devices. Popularity on multiple fronts Although eBay is popular on mobile devices, monthly downloads of its mobile app have been trending in the wrong direction since peaking in June 2021. Still, in April 2024, ebay.com was the second most popular e-commerce and shopping website worldwide, accounting for more than ***** percent of visits to sites in this category. Slow and steady In the second quarter of 2023, eBay’s gross merchandise volume (GMV) amounted to nearly **** billion U.S. dollars. That is no small number, but is only a small increase compared to the lowest GMV recorded by the company since the first quarter of 2020 - **** billion U.S. dollars in the third quarter of 2022. Since then, the company's GMV has been on a slow increase. However, while GMV figures begin to achieve steady growth once again, the e-commerce platform's once *** million active buyers have plateaued at *** million.
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In the measured time period, September 2024 saw the highest figures for online traffic to the C2C fashion marketplace depop.com. According to the data, desktop and mobile visits to depop.com reached **** million visits that month.
In May 2025, the Temu website, temu.com, totaled at *** billion visits. The number of monthly visits has increased from February when they reached ***** million worldwide.
In the measured time period, July 2025 saw the highest figures for online traffic to the fast fashion marketplace shein.com. According to the data, desktop and mobile visits to shein.com reached almost *** million visits that month. Shein's valuation Shein is among the private startups that rapidly reached a valuation of over *** billion dollars, otherwise known as unicorns. Among the top unicorn companies ranked in 2024, Shein was fifth with a total valuation of over ** billion U.S. dollars. In 2023, Shein was also the most visited fashion and apparel website worldwide, outpacing big names such as Nike and Zara. Global unicorn landscape: U.S. leads in numbers As of February 2024, the United States was the country with the most unicorn companies, ***, followed by China at ***. Although China does not have the most unicorns, ByteDance, the Chinese tech company that owns TikTok, had the highest valuation worldwide. Software and finance are the most likely industries for unicorn companies to form.
Pinterest is a web traffic powerhouse: in March 2024 approximately 1.3 billion visits were measured to the Pinterest.com, making it one of the most-visited websites online. In the third quarter of 2023, Pinterest had 482 million monthly active users worldwide.
In the measured time period, June 2024 saw the highest figures for online traffic to the fashion retail website hm.com. According to the data, desktop and mobile visits to hm.com reached over ** million visits that month.
In the month of January 2024, the beauty and personal care retailer Nykaa had about **** million website visits. In comparison, the month of December in 2023 clocked over ten million monthly website visits.
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In the measured time period, January 2025 saw the highest figures for online classifieds site craigslist.org. According to the data, desktop and mobile visits to depop.com reached ***** million visits that month.
In November 2024, Google.com was the most popular website worldwide with approximately 6.25 billion unique monthly visitors. YouTube.com was ranked second with an estimated 3.64 billion unique monthly visitors. Both websites are among the most visited websites worldwide.
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This chart provides a detailed overview of the number of Belgium online retailers by Monthly Visitors. Most Belgium stores' Monthly Visitors are Less than 100, there are 34.34K stores, which is 63.24% of total. In second place, 14.06K stores' Monthly Visitors are 100 to 1K, which is 25.88% of total. Meanwhile, 4.67K stores' Monthly Visitors are 1K to 10K, which is 8.60% of total. This breakdown reveals insights into Belgium stores distribution, providing a comprehensive picture of the performance and efficient of online retailer.
In April 2021, worldwide visits to YouTube.com amounted to roughly ************. Between January 2017 and April 2021, visitor traffic to YouTube.com has increased by more than *** percent. In 2020, visits to the platform's website experienced an upward trend between the months of April and June.
In December 2024, social video platform YouTube recorded approximately ** billion visits on ****** and over ** billion visits from users on ******* devices. The web visitors traffic count from *********************** appeared consistently higher than the ******* visit count in the examined months.
Digitec.ch recorded over ************ visitors to its Swiss online store in March 2025. This was a traffic increase of ******* visits from the month before.
Booking.com was the most-visited travel and tourism website worldwide in 2024, with an average of 562.6 million visits per month during the measured period. Tripadvisor.com ranked second, with 150.2 million visits, while Airbnb.com registered over 105.4 million average accesses.
Among some of the world's leading consumer electronics retailers, Samsung.com recorded the largest number of monthly visitors to its website, with approximately 902.4 million visits in July 2025. This figure eclipsed that of long-time rival apple.com, whose overall website traffic was about ******million visits that month.
Galaxus recorded over ** million visitors to its Swiss, German, and Austrian domains in March 2025. This was a traffic increase of over *** million visits from the month before. The Swiss e-tailer's Swiss domain, galaxus.ch, received the large majority of traffic in 2025.
In March 2025, ChatGPT.com received approximately *** billion visits from users worldwide. The most recent year under analysis has seen an increase in traffic to OpenAI's artificial intelligence chatbot. This is the highest traffic volume achieved by the site to date, with values for the most recent analyzed month exceeding twice the average monthly visits for the entire examined period between April 2023 and April 2024.
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.