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.

As of November 2024, Google.com had the highest average number of monthly visitors from Israel, at 284 million entries. It was followed by YouTube.com with 101 million visitors. Other popular websites included Ynet.co.il and Facebook.com, the former being the most visited news website in the country. Ynet had 65.3 million entries per month and was also the most popular Israeli website in the ranking.

A complete list of live websites using the Popularity Posts Widget technology, compiled through global website indexing conducted by WebTechSurvey.

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.

Dive Sites in Guam, Mariana Islands: As found in "The economic value of Guam's coral reefs", University of Guam Marine Laboratory Technical Report No. 116, March 2007. Column "POP" corresponds to the site's popularity, with a value of 1 being "not popular", 2 being "popular", and 3 being "most popular".

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 is a dataset used for the online stats training website (https://www.rensvandeschoot.com/tutorials/) and is based on the data used by van de Schoot, van der Velden, Boom, and Brugman (2010).

The dataset is based on a study that investigates an association between popularity status and antisocial behavior from at-risk adolescents (n = 1491), where gender and ethnic background are moderators under the association. The study distinguished subgroups within the popular status group in terms of overt and covert antisocial behavior.For more information on the sample, instruments, methodology, and research context, we refer the interested readers to van de Schoot, van der Velden, Boom, and Brugman (2010).

Variable name Description

Respnr = Respondents’ number

Dutch = Respondents’ ethnic background (0 = Dutch origin, 1 = non-Dutch origin)

gender = Respondents’ gender (0 = boys, 1 = girls)

sd = Adolescents’ socially desirable answering patterns

covert = Covert antisocial behavior

overt = Overt antisocial behavior

In June 2025, booking.com was the most visited travel and tourism website worldwide. That month, Booking’s web page recorded around *** million visits. Tripadvisor.com and airbnb.com followed in the ranking, with roughly *** million and ** million visits, respectively. Popular online travel agencies in the U.S. Online travel agencies (OTAs), such as Booking.com and Expedia, offer a wide variety of services, including online hotel bookings, flight reservations, and car rentals. According to the Statista Consumer Insights Global survey, when looking at flight search engine online bookings by brand in the United States, Booking.com and Expedia were the most popular options when it came to making online flight reservations in 2025. When focusing on hotel and private accommodation online bookings in the U.S., Booking.com was again the most popular brand, followed by Airbnb, Expedia, and Hotels.com. Booking Holdings vs. Expedia Group Booking.com is one of the most popular sites of the online travel group Booking Holdings, the leading online travel agency worldwide based on revenue, that also owns brands like Priceline, Kayak, and Agoda. In 2024, Booking Holdings' revenue amounted to almost ** billion U.S. dollars, the highest figure reported by the company to date. Meanwhile, global revenue of Expedia Group, which manages brands like Expedia, Hotels.com, and Vrbo, reached nearly ** billion U.S. dollars that year.

A comprehensive list of websites that use AMP technology, ranked by popularity.

A comprehensive list of websites that use AccessTrade technology, ranked by popularity.

This dataset is a summarized, sanitized subset of the one released at The 2nd International Workshop on Information Heterogeneity and Fusion in Recommender Systems (HetRec 2011), currently hosted at the GroupLens website (here).

Sanitization included: (a) artist name mispelling correction and standardization; (b) reassignment of artists referenced with two or more artist id's; (c) removal of artists listed as 'unknown' or through their website addresses.

The original dataset contains a larger number of files, including tag-related information, in addition to users, artists and scrobble counts. last.fm was contacted by the author and asked for some recent version of this content, in similar format, with no return until June 15th, 2020.

A comprehensive list of websites that use Act-On technology, ranked by popularity.

A comprehensive list of websites that use Ad Lightning technology, ranked by popularity.

A comprehensive list of websites that use AOLserver technology, ranked by popularity.

Web clicks collected from the Yahoo Toolbar between July 1 2014 and March 31 2015.

This dataset was used in:

Quantifying Biases in Online Information Exposure; Dimitar Nikolov, Mounia Lalmas, Alessandro Flammini, Filippo Menczer

Market Overview The global Photography Website Builders market is projected to reach a valuation of USD 1,868.1 million by 2033, witnessing an impressive CAGR of 12.5% during the forecast period (2023-2033). This growth is attributed to the increasing popularity of online photography, the growing demand for customized photography websites, and the availability of user-friendly website building platforms. The market is dominated by on-premise deployment, which accounts for the majority of the revenue share. Commercial use is expected to be the largest application segment, driven by the need for professional photographers and businesses to showcase their work online. Key Trends and Drivers Major trends shaping the Photography Website Builders market include the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into website builders, the increasing adoption of cloud-based platforms, and the growing demand for mobile-optimized websites. The rising popularity of social media and digital marketing is driving the need for photographers to create visually appealing websites that showcase their work effectively. Additionally, the growing popularity of e-commerce has created a demand for photography websites that can facilitate online sales. Key players in the market such as Pixpa, Squarespace, and Wix are investing heavily in research and development to provide innovative features and enhance user experience. Photography Website Builders: A Market Report

The website speed test market has witnessed significant growth, reaching a market size of XXX million in 2025. This growth is primarily attributed to the increasing demand for faster and more reliable internet speeds, driven by the widespread adoption of streaming video, online gaming, and cloud-based applications. The CAGR of the market is projected to remain strong over the forecast period from 2023 to 2033, reaching a value of XXX million by 2033. Key market trends include the growing adoption of 5G networks and the increasing popularity of fiber optic internet, both of which offer significantly faster speeds compared to traditional copper-based connections. In terms of segmentation, the market for website speed test can be divided into two main types: cable internet and fiber optic internet. Cable internet is currently the most widely used type of broadband internet connection, but fiber optic internet is rapidly gaining popularity due to its superior speed and reliability. Other types of broadband internet connections include fixed wireless internet, satellite internet, and DSL internet. The market can also be segmented based on its application, with individuals and businesses being the two primary user groups. Businesses typically require faster and more reliable internet speeds than individuals, and are therefore more likely to invest in higher-end solutions such as fiber optic internet. Major companies in the website speed test market include Fusion Connect, Bandwidth Place, Ookla, Netflix, and Measurement Lab, among others.

Google Trends provides spatiotemporal data for user-specific terms scaled from less than 1 (lowest relative popularity) to 100 (highest relative popularity) as a proxy for the public interest. Here we use US state-level data for COVID-19 to examine popularity trends during the pandemic evolution. We used "coronavirus" and "covid" search terms and set the period up from January 1st, 2020, to November 12, 2022. We measured the agreement on web rankings between states using the nonparametric Kendall’s W (0 for no concordance to 1 for perfect agreement). We compiled state-level weekly data on COVID-19 incidence and mortality and scaled state curves from 0 to 100 through a min-max normalization process. We used a dynamic time-warping algorithm to calculate similarities between the popularity, mortality, and incidence of COVID-19. The methodology is a pattern recognition process between time series by distance optimization. The similarity was mapped from 0 to 1, with 1 indicating perfect similarity and 0 indicating no similarity. The peak in popularity was in March 2020, succeeded by a decline and a prolonged period of fluctuation around 20%. Public interest rose briefly at the end of 2021, to fall to a low activity of around 10%. This pattern was remarkably consistent across states (Kendal’s W 0.94, p < 0.001). Web search trends were an impression of contagion growth: Overall, popularity-mortality trajectories yielded higher similarity indices (median 0.78; interquartile range 0.75–0.82) compared to popularity-incidence trajectories (median 0.74; interquartile range 0.72–0.76, Wilcoxon’s exact p0.80) in 19/51 (37%) regions, as opposed to only 4/51 (8%) for popularity-incidence trajectories. State-level data show a fading public concern about COVID-19, and web-search popularity patterns may reflect the COVID-19 trajectory in terms of cases and mortality.

In December 2023, the fast-fashion e-commerce site shein.com was the most visited in the fashion and apparel category worldwide, accounting for over *** percent of desktop traffic. The online site for Nike ranked second, with **** percent of visits. Chinese brand's popularity in the U.S market Based on the yearly percentage growth in terms of website traffic, shein.com emerged as the one of the leading fast-fashion retailer websites in the United States in 2021, with a growth of ** percent compared to 2020. The affordable fast-fashion retailer also got listed as the second most downloaded shopping application in App Store in the United States, with over ** million downloads in 2021. Shein and U.S. teens Shein does not have any physical stores, but it has garnered millions of followers across the globe for its wide range of trendy products and rock-bottom prices. It is the second preferred online shopping website of teens in the United States, after Amazon.

Number of Github stars, forks, open issues, create and last modified dates for 30 open source static site generators (SSG), including Hugo, Jekyll and Gatsby.