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.

According to a report published by DataReportal, as of November 2023, the most visited website in Thailand was Google.com with approximately *** million monthly visits. This was followed by Youtube.com with around *** million monthly visits in that year.

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.

In November 2024, WhatsApp.com was the most popular website in Spain by time per visit, with an average session length of approximately ** minutes and ** seconds. YouTube.com ranked second, with an average of ** minutes and ** seconds per visit. Despite being the leading website by total visits and unique visitors in the country, Google.com ranked fourth in engagement time, with ** minutes and ** seconds per session.

In November 2024, Google.com was the leading website in Finland by unique visits, with around 17.3 million single accesses to the URL during that month. YouTube.com followed, with around 11.7 million unique monthly visits. Wikipedia.org came in third, with 8.13 million unique monthly visits.

As of November 2021, in over 90 percent of cases, Hungarians accessed the tabloid site, blikk.hu using mobile devices. Furthermore, Hungarians mostly used their phones to read online news on websites such as index.hu or origo.hu. By comparison, mobile devices accounted for less than 24 percent of YouTube's web traffic over the same period.

In November 2024, WhatsApp.com was the most popular website in Brazil by time per visit, with an average session length of approximately ** minutes. YouTube.com ranked second, with an average of ** minutes and ** seconds per visit.

From April 2022 to January 2024, the ************************************************* saw an average of approximately ** million visits, ranking as the most popular education site worldwide. ********, which offers classes and certifications on various subjects, saw ** million visits from global users in the examined period. ********************************************** for students and teachers, ranked third with ***** million visits recorded on average between April 2022 and the beginning of 2024.

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.

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 January 2025 mobile devices excluding tablets accounted for over ** percent of web page views worldwide. Meanwhile, over ** percent of webpage views in Africa were generated via mobile. In contrast, just over half of web traffic in North America still took place via desktop connections with mobile only accounting for **** percent of total web traffic. While regional infrastructure remains an important factor in broadband vs. mobile coverage, most of the world has had their eyes on the recent 5G rollout across the globe, spearheaded by tech-leaders China and the United States. The number of mobile 5G subscriptions worldwide is forecast to reach more than ***** billion by 2028. Social media: room for growth in Africa and southern Asia Overall, more than ** percent of the world’s mobile internet subscribers are also active on social media. A fast-growing market, with newcomers such as TikTok taking the world by storm, marketers have been cashing in on social media’s reach. Overall, social media penetration is highest in Europe and America while in Africa and southern Asia, there is still room for growth. As of 2021, Facebook and Google-owned YouTube are the most popular social media platforms worldwide. Facebook and Instagram are most effective With nearly ***** billion users, it is no wonder that Facebook remains the social media avenue of choice for the majority of marketers across the world. Instagram, meanwhile, was the second most popular outlet. Both platforms are low-cost and support short-form content, known for its universal consumer appeal and answering to the most important benefits of using these kind of platforms for business and advertising purposes.

Between September and November 2023, YouTube.com was the most popular website in Peru by time per visit, with an average session length of approximately 34 minutes and 57 seconds. AnimeFLV.net ranked second in the country, with an average of 30 minutes and 52 seconds per visit.

Between December 2022 and November 2023, YouTube.com was the most popular website in Indonesia by average time per visit, with an average session length of ** minutes and ** seconds. WhatsApp followed, with users spending an average of ** minutes and ** seconds on the platform.

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.

In November 2021, the most visited website in Sweden was Google.com, with total monthly traffic exceeding 107 million visits. Aftonbladet.se came in second place with 38.2 million monthly visits, followed by Expressen.se with 38.1 million total visits during the month.

From September to November 2023, search platform Google.com was the top ranking website in Canada, with average monthly traffic of almost four billion visits. YouTube ranked second with almost three billion visits. Social network Facebook.com ranked third, with total monthly traffic of 470 million visits.

In 2022, notion.so held the leading position as the most popular startup website in the United States and Europe based on global traffic. The workspace platform, which launched in 2013, saw over ***** million monthly website visits on average in the examined year. The U.S.-based visual tool Miro.com came in second, generating almost ** million average monthly visits from users worldwide. Additionally, the website of the startup accelerator Y Combinator ranked third with approximately ** million monthly visits.

Google.com was the most visited website in Kazakhstan, with approximately *** million visits in October 2024. It was followed by the online video sharing platform YouTube, which was frequented ***** million times in the same month.

Kakaku.com was the most visited retail website in Japan in July 2024, accumulating almost 103 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.

The Japanese review site my-best.com had the highest bounce rate among the most visited retail websites in Japan in July 2024. Operated by mybest, Inc. and part of LY Corporation, the website had a bounce of nearly ** percent, while ranking as the ****** most visited retail website in the same month.