Between September and November 2023, google.com was the most popular website in Taiwan, with average monthly visits surpassing 3.61 billion. Youtube.com ranked second and facebook.com followed with a wide margin.

In March 2024, Google.com was the leading website in the United States. The search platform accounted for over 19 percent of desktop web traffic in the United States, ahead of second-ranked YouTube.com with 10.71 percent.

In November 2024, Xvideos.com, Instagram.com, and X.com were the websites with the most pages per visit in Brazil, with an average of *****, ****, and **** pages visited per session each. Despite being the most accessed in total visits and unique visitors, Google.com ranked fifteenth, with *** pages per visit, while YouTube.com ranked fifth, with **** pages visited per session.

In November 2024, Xvideos.com, MercadoLibre.com.ar, and Pornhub.com were the websites with the most pages per visit in Argentina, with an average of 8.34, 7.68, and 7.22 pages visited per session each. Despite being the most accessed in total visits and unique visitors, Google.com ranked tenth in this list, with 3.9 pages per visit.

In November 2024, Google.com was the most visited website in Brazil, with approximately 6.56 billion total visits. YouTube.com came in second with 3.13 billion total visits. The local URL Google.com.br ranked ninth, with about 278 million accesses. Facebook.com counted approximately 439 million monthly visits from Brazilian online audiences.

In November 2024, the adult website Pornhub.com was the website with the most pages per visit in Finland, with an average of 8.41 pages visited per session. Tori.fi followed with 7.08 pages per visit. Search engine giant Google.com ranked eighth, with 3.96 pages, while its local URL Google.fi ranked fifth, with 5.15.

In November 2024, Google.com was the leading website in Colombia by unique visits, with around 52.9 million single accesses to the URL during that month. YouTube.com came in second with approximately 30.9 million unique monthly visits. Facebook ranked third with 24.2 million unique monthly visits.

** percent of Canadian respondents answer our survey on "Most used websites and online services by type" with **************. The survey was conducted in 2025, among 2,732 consumers.

As of March 2024, ulta.com registered around ** million monthly visits in the United States. Qvc.com ranked second, with roughly ***** million visits that month. Sephora.com followed with approximately ***** million website visits. Sephora- the U.S. favorite Sephora is an omnichannel beauty retailer founded in Paris, France. The beauty retailer has achieved significant success in the United States, both on the high street and online. Sephora.com generates more than ***** billion U.S. dollars in e-commerce net sales through its online store, representing a six-fold increase in only six years. When comparing its app’s popularity worldwide, the U.S. leads the ranking, even surpassing its origin country in terms of downloads. Sephora's app downloads in the U.S. have exploded since September 2022, going from ******* to over ****** in November 2023. The latest generation of beauty shoppers Generation Z, or Gen Z, are young adults and the latest consumers of beauty online. In the United States, around ********** of Gen Z consumers purchased make-up-related goods online in 2023. Their peers and social media especially influence this age group when it comes to online purchases of cosmetics. Most Gen Z shoppers in the U.S. read reviews and look at pictures and videos of other shoppers before deciding to buy beauty products. Social media sites such as TikTok and Instagram are also important online sources for these beauty connoisseurs. Nearly *** out of ten shoppers use TikTok to help with their beauty purchase decision, and around **** out of ten use Instagram. To complete their orders, specialty beauty retailers are Gen Z's favorite online shopping channels. These sites are, for example, sephora.com and ulta.com.

Content

I collected data from here by country and with the help of a little bit of data wrangling, I could convert the data into the JSON and CSV format. The dataset contains 2 files:

countries.json: The top 50 most popular websites by each country, the ranking order is stored by indexes. sites.csv: General information about every website on the list, such as: * Daily Minutes on Site: Estimated daily minutes on site per visitor to the site * Daily Pageviews per Visitor: Estimated daily unique pageviews per visitor on the site * Ratio of Traffic From Search: The ratio of all referrals that came from Search engines over the trailing month * Total Sites Linking In: The total number of sites that are linked to this website

Acknowledgements

Source: Alexa.com.

Silatus is sharing, for free, a segment of a dataset that we are using to train a generative AI model for text-to-mockup conversions. This dataset was collected in December 2022 and early January 2023, so it contains very recent data from 1,000 of the world's most popular websites. You can get our larger 10,000 website dataset for free at: https://silatus.com/datasets

This dataset includes:

High-res screenshots

• 1024x1024px
• Loaded Javascript
• Loaded Images

Text metadata

• Site title
• Navbar content
• Full page text data
• Page description

Visual metadata

• Content (images, videos, inputs, buttons) absolute & relative positions
• Color profile
• Base font

Kakaku.com was the most visited retail website in Japan in July 2024, accumulating almost *** million visits. The Japanese price comparison website is operated by Kakaku.com, Inc., which also operates other services like news aggregators, booking services, and a movie database.

In April 2025, the news website with the most monthly visits in the United States was nytimes.com, with a total of ***** million monthly visits in that month. In second place was cnn.com with just over *** million visits, followed by foxnews.com with almost a ****** of a million. Online news consumption in the U.S. Americans get their news in a variety of ways, but social media is an increasingly popular option. A survey on social media news consumption revealed that ** percent of Twitter users regularly used the site for news, and Facebook and Reddit were also popular for news among their users. Interestingly though, social media is the least trusted news sources in the United States. News and trust Trust in news sources has become increasingly important to the American news consumer amidst the spread of fake news, and the public are more vocal about whether or not they have faith in a source to report news correctly. Ongoing discussions about the credibility, accuracy and bias of news networks, anchors, TV show hosts, and news media professionals mean that those looking to keep up to date tend to be more cautious than ever before. In general, news audiences are skeptical. In 2020, just **** percent of respondents to a survey investigating the perceived objectivity of the mass media reported having a great deal of trust in the media to report news fully, accurately, and fairly.

In November 2024, the online marketplace Finn.no was the website with the most pages per visit in Norway, with an average of 16.91 pages visited per session. Additionally, visitors to Meta's social platforms Facebook.com and Instagram.com accessed approximately 9.81 and 9.21 pages per visit, respectively. Google.no ranked fourth with 8.5 pages per visit.

Context

This dataset includes some of the basic information of the websites we daily use. While scrapping this info, I learned quite a lot in R programming, system speed, memory usage etc. and developed my niche in Web Scrapping. It took about 4-5 hrs for scrapping this data through my system (4GB RAM) and nearly about 4-5 days working out my idea through this project.

Content

The dataset contains Top 50 ranked sites from each 191 countries along with their traffic (global) rank. Here, country_rank represent the traffic rank of that site within the country, and traffic_rank represent the global traffic rank of that site.

Since most of the columns meaning can be derived from their name itself, its pretty much straight forward to understand this dataset. However, there are some instances of confusion which I would like to explain in here:

1) most of the numeric values are in character format, hence, contain spaces which you might need to clean on.

2) There are multiple instances of same website. for.e.g. Yahoo. com is present in 179 rows within this dataset. This is due to their different country rank in each country.

3)The information provided in this dataset is for the top 50 websites in 191 countries as on 25th May 2017 and is subjected to change in future time due to the dynamic structure of ranking.

4) The dataset inactual contains 9540 rows instead of 9550(50*191 rows). This was due to the unavailability of information for 10 websites.

PS: in case if there are anymore queries, comment on this, I'll add an answer to that in above list.

Acknowledgements

I wouldn't have done this without the help of others. I've scrapped this information from publicly available (open to all) websites namely: 1) http://data.danetsoft.com/ 2) http://www.alexa.com/topsites , of which i'm highly grateful. I truly appreciate and thanks the owner of these sites for providing us with the information that I included today in this dataset.

Inspiration

I feel that there this a lot of scope for exploring & visualization this dataset to find out the trends in the attributes of these websites across countries. Also, one could try predicting the traffic(global) rank being a dependent factor on the other attributes of the website. In any case, this dataset will help you find out the popular sites in your area.

In March 2025, ******** accounted for ** percent of all social media site visits in the United States, confirming its position as the leading social media website by far. Other social media platforms, despite their popularity, had to make do with smaller shares of visits across desktop, mobile, and tablet devices combined. ********* ranked second with ***** percent of all U.S. social media site visits, while X (previously Twitter) accounted for ***** percent of the total visits in the country. Additionally, the U.S. is home to the third largest social media audience worldwide. Facebook: mobile vs desktop usage At the beginning of 2022, around ** percent of Facebook users across the globe were using the platform’s social networking services exclusively via mobile phone, while only *** percent reported using their desktop or laptop devices. In September 2022, three Facebook Inc. products occupied some of the leading positions as most downloaded social networking apps on the Apple App Store in the United States. WhatsApp’s messaging platform ranked second with more than *** million downloads, while Facebook and the instant-messaging service Messenger followed ranking third and fifth with *** million and **** million downloads respectively. Social media evolution Between 2012 and 2024, the daily time spent on social networks worldwide experienced an almost constant increase, with users reaching an average of *** minutes per day in 2023, with a decrease to *** daily minutes of engagement in 2024. However, users’ favorite platforms have changed since 2019, and the power balance appears to be shifting further from Facebook’s market dominance. Not only Facebook’s user growth rate is estimated to slow down in the next years, but users belonging to Generation Z appear to prefer video-first social platforms like Snapchat, TikTok, and YouTube.

This dataset contains a list of 3654 Dutch websites that we considered the most popular websites in 2015. This list served as whitelist for the Newstracker Research project in which we monitored the online web behaviour of a group of respondents.The research project 'The Newstracker' was a subproject of the NWO-funded project 'The New News Consumer: A User-Based Innovation Project to Meet Paradigmatic Change in News Use and Media Habits'.For the Newstracker project we aimed to understand the web behaviour of a group of respondents. We created custom-built software to monitor their web browsing behaviour on their laptops and desktops (please find the code in open access at https://github.com/NITechLabs/NewsTracker). For reasons of scale and privacy we created a whitelist with websites that were the most popular websites in 2015. We manually compiled this list by using data of DDMM, Alexa and own research. The dataset consists of 5 columns:- the URL- the type of website: We created a list of types of websites and each website has been manually labeled with 1 category- Nieuws-regio: When the category was 'News', we subdivided these websites in the regional focus: International, National or Local- Nieuws-onderwerp: Furthermore, each website under the category News was further subdivided in type of news website. For this we created an own list of news categories and manually coded each website- Bron: For each website we noted which source we used to find this website.The full description of the research design of the Newstracker including the set-up of this whitelist is included in the following article: Kleppe, M., Otte, M. (in print), 'Analysing & understanding news consumption patterns by tracking online user behaviour with a multimodal research design', Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, doi 10.1093/llc/fqx030.

Social media was by far the most popular news platform among 18 to 34-year-olds in the United States, with 47 percent of respondents to a survey held in August 2022 saying that they used social networks for news on a daily basis. By comparison, adults over 65 years old mostly used network news to keep up to date.

The decline of newspapers In the past, the reasons to regularly go out and purchase a print newspaper were many. Used not only for news but also apartment hunting, entertainment, and job searches (among other things), newspapers once served multiple purposes. This is no longer the case, with first television and then the internet taking care of consumer needs once covered by printed papers. Indeed, the paid circulation of daily weekday newspapers in the United States has fallen dramatically since the 1980s with no sign of future improvement.

News consumption habits

A survey on news consumption by gender found that 50 percent of women use either online-only news sites or social media for news each day, and 51 percent of male respondents said the same. Social media was by far the most used daily news platform among U.S. Millennials, and the same was true of Gen Z. One appeal of online news is that it often comes at no cost to the consumer. Paying for news found via digital outlets is not yet commonplace in the United States, with only 21 percent of U.S. consumers responding to a study held in early 2021 reporting having paid for online news content in the last year.

How many people use social media?

              Social media usage is one of the most popular online activities. In 2024, over five billion people were using social media worldwide, a number projected to increase to over six billion in 2028.

              Who uses social media?
              Social networking is one of the most popular digital activities worldwide and it is no surprise that social networking penetration across all regions is constantly increasing. As of January 2023, the global social media usage rate stood at 59 percent. This figure is anticipated to grow as lesser developed digital markets catch up with other regions
              when it comes to infrastructure development and the availability of cheap mobile devices. In fact, most of social media’s global growth is driven by the increasing usage of mobile devices. Mobile-first market Eastern Asia topped the global ranking of mobile social networking penetration, followed by established digital powerhouses such as the Americas and Northern Europe.

              How much time do people spend on social media?
              Social media is an integral part of daily internet usage. On average, internet users spend 151 minutes per day on social media and messaging apps, an increase of 40 minutes since 2015. On average, internet users in Latin America had the highest average time spent per day on social media.

              What are the most popular social media platforms?
              Market leader Facebook was the first social network to surpass one billion registered accounts and currently boasts approximately 2.9 billion monthly active users, making it the most popular social network worldwide. In June 2023, the top social media apps in the Apple App Store included mobile messaging apps WhatsApp and Telegram Messenger, as well as the ever-popular app version of Facebook.

In 2022, approximately *** thousand minors in France accessed pornographic websites on daily basis. In comparison, almost four million adults were reported accessing such websites in the same year. Additionally, it was estimated that *** million French users younger than 18 years of age accessed adult and pornographic content online on monthly basis.