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.

In November 2024, Google.com was the most visited website in the United States, with over 25 billion total visits. YouTube.com came in second with 12 billion total visits. Reddit.com and Amazon.com counted approximately 3.12 billion and 2.89 monthly visits each from U.S. online audiences.

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.

As of February 2025, English was the most popular language for web content, with over 49.4 percent of websites using it. Spanish ranked second, with six percent of web content, while the content in the German language followed, with 5.6 percent. English as the leading online language United States and India, the countries with the most internet users after China, are also the world's biggest English-speaking markets. The internet user base in both countries combined, as of January 2023, was over a billion individuals. This has led to most of the online information being created in English. Consequently, even those who are not native speakers may use it for convenience. Global internet usage by regions As of October 2024, the number of internet users worldwide was 5.52 billion. In the same period, Northern Europe and North America were leading in terms of internet penetration rates worldwide, with around 97 percent of its populations accessing the internet.

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 most cases, internet users across three generations spent their time online on similar website types. The top three was occupied by search engines (98 percent), social networking sites (90-93 percent), and mail services (84-85 percent). Bank websites and applications had the largest reach in the group of 60-69 - as many as 81 percent of this age group used internet banking.

In March 2025, the Walt Disney Company properties were ranked first among the most popular multiplatform web properties in the United States with over 249 million visitors from mobile and desktop connections – popular Disney online properties include Disney Entertainment, which consists of the company's film, television, music, and streaming media assets, and ESPN, among other online services.

Among the ** most popular websites in Russia, Google.com had the highest average monthly traffic, at over five billion visits in November 2024. It was followed by the Russian search engine Yandex.ru, with around *** billion visits in the same period.

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.

According to Nielsen Koreanclick, naver.com was the most visited website as of August 2024, with over ** million unique visitors and a reach of around **** percent. Naver’s home advantage against GoogleNaver is a search engine developed in South Korea and operated by Naver Corporation. After its launch in 1999, the company furthered its reach by becoming an early pioneer in user-generated content. Nowadays, the website features blogs, a web comic service, internet communities and much more. Having established an all-Korean website that features several all-Korean services, Naver has deep roots in South Korean online culture and a big advantage against Google. Another loss for Google was the blockade of its navigation service within the country boarders by the South Korean government. Internet usageSouth Korea is not only among the countries with the fastest mobile internet, but also an internet penetration rate of over ** percent. Additionally, close to ** percent of South Koreans aged six years or older own a smartphone. Therefore, it is no surprise, that South Korea was the first country to upgrade their networks to **. With an average citizen of each age group spending between one and more than **** hours online per day, the internet plays an important role in daily lives.

In November 2024, WhatsApp.com was the most engaging website worldwide, with users spending approximately 31 minutes and 17 seconds per visit on the website. YouTube.com was second in user engagement, with an average visit duration of 22 minutes and 24 minutes and 15 seconds. X.com, which ranks as the tenth most visited website worldwide, reported an average session length of 15 minutes and 26 seconds.

Mobile accounts for approximately half of web traffic worldwide. In the last quarter of 2024, mobile devices (excluding tablets) generated 62.54 percent of global website traffic. Mobiles and smartphones consistently hoovered around the 50 percent mark since the beginning of 2017, before surpassing it in 2020. Mobile traffic Due to low infrastructure and financial restraints, many emerging digital markets skipped the desktop internet phase entirely and moved straight onto mobile internet via smartphone and tablet devices. India is a prime example of a market with a significant mobile-first online population. Other countries with a significant share of mobile internet traffic include Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya. In most African markets, mobile accounts for more than half of the web traffic. By contrast, mobile only makes up around 45.49 percent of online traffic in the United States. Mobile usage The most popular mobile internet activities worldwide include watching movies or videos online, e-mail usage and accessing social media. Apps are a very popular way to watch video on the go and the most-downloaded entertainment apps in the Apple App Store are Netflix, Tencent Video and Amazon Prime Video.

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In November 2024, the website with the highest reach on PCs in South Korea was naver.com, as around 77.4 percent of computer users in the country accessed that site. Naver.com is the search portal website of South Korean internet giant Naver Corporation, offering multiple services from social media, shopping, and blogs to search engines and more. Naver as a search engine Naver generated most of its revenue in 2022 from its function as an internet search platform. Naver’s biggest competitor in the online search market was Google. The domain google.com had a website reach on PCs around the mid-40 percent mark, but overall Google as a search engine effortlessly claimed the highest market share on the search engine market in South Korea. Still, looking at the number of monthly users, Naver was the most used search engine among consumers.  Internet usage in South Korea In general, the South Korean population is very well connected to the internet, as over 97 percent had access to it as of 2021. Accordingly, internet usage in the country has thoroughly expanded into various aspects of the average person’s day-to-day life. Additionally, the government also continues to push further development of utilizing the internet.

In November 2024, Google.com was the most visited website in Mexico, with approximately 2.83 billion total visits. Its local URL Google.com.mx ranked eleventh, with about 109 million accesses. Social video platform YouTube.com ranked second with 1.28 billion visits. Additionally, the social media platform Facebook.com ranked third with 316 million visits in the examined period.

The website that people could least do without in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2019 was Google. The BBC website was second most popular. Amazon saw an increase in popularity compared to 2017, whereas Facebook experienced a considerable drop in popularity.

Search engines in the UK

The most popular website, Google, has by far the highest share of the desktop search engine market in the UK, with Bing being its closest competitor. Google is also the leading mobile search engine, with a market share of ** percent as of October 2020. These days, the majority of online search in the UK is mobile.

Internet demographics and use in Great Britain

The number of Brits using the internet daily increased continuously between 2006 and 2020, reaching over ** million individuals in 2020. As of November 2020, the majority said they used the internet for sending and receiving emails. Finding information about goods or services was the second most common activity carried out online. Less than a fifth of internet users said that they went online to make a medical appointment or to use online health services.

In May 2023, ** percent of Italy's digital audience browsed search engines. Internet tools and web services followed in the ranking with **** percent. The penetration rate of video and movie content on the internet was over nearly ** percent. On this category of websites, each Italian user spent on average almost six hours in February 2022.

Digital population in Italy In January 2022, Italy counted a digital population of ***** million internet users, with over ** million social media users. Between 2014 and 2020, the share of internet users in Italy surfing daily experienced a constant increase, reaching almost ***** in ** users in 2020.

Instant messaging platforms in Italy

In February 2022, Telegram was the most downloaded communication app from Android users in Italy, with *** thousand downloads. In 2021, WhatsApp was also among the most used social platforms in Italy, counting approximately ** million users in the country. As of the third quarter of 2021, Italy was among the countries worldwide with the highest monthly usage of the popular chat app.

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