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 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.

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.

From September to November 2023, YouTube.com was the most popular website in Spain by time per visit, with an average session length of approximately 32 minutes and 16 seconds. AnimeFLV.net ranked second, with an average of 32 minutes and six seconds per visit. Despite being the leading website by total visits and unique visitors in the country, Google.com ranked third in engagement time, with 21 minutes and 13 seconds per session.

In January 2024, search platform Google.com was the top ranking website in South Africa with an average monthly traffic of almost 509 million monthly visits. Social platform Facebook.com ranked second, with an average monthly traffic of 149 million total visits.

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, Google.com held the top spot in India's website rankings, averaging over **** billion monthly visits. YouTube ranked second, with traffic of **** billion visits, while social platforms Instagram.com and Facebook.com followed with *** million and *** million monthly visits each. Internet penetration In the past decade, India has witnessed a remarkable transformation in its digital landscape. This substantial expansion has resulted in extensive digital connectivity, with more than **** of India's *** billion citizens now enjoying internet access. India ranked **** on the Digital Quality of Life Index in 2023, which revealed electronic infrastructure as one of the country’s strengths. YouTube in India As of 2025, India had the world’s largest YouTube user base, figuring over *** million users. The video platform caters to the nation’s tech-savvy denizens as an educational resource and a source of entertainment. Moreover, YouTube has evolved into a dynamic space for digital marketing, especially harnessing the consumer base segment aged below 32 years.

From September to November 2023, Google.com was the leading website in Italy, with more than 3.36 billion total monthly visits. The search engine was also popular in its Italian top-level domain, with Google.it reaching 232 million views. YouTube.com ranked second, with approximately 1.17 billion visits from users in Italy, while adult website Pornhub ranked fourth. Several online newspapers, Repubblica.it, Corriere.it, Gazzetta.it were also among the most visited websites during the month. Mediaset.it, which is the online streaming platform of one of the country's major television broadcasters, collected more than 126 million visits.

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.

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.

Google.com recorded an average monthly traffic of **** billion visits in Japan from September to November 2024, which made it the most visited website. It was followed by Yahoo.co.jp and Youtube.com.

Between September and November 2024, google.com was the most visited website in Hong Kong with 338 million average monthly visits. In terms of monthly traffic and pages per visit, international news website Yahoo.com ranked higher than the local news website hk01.com.

In Turkey, google.com was the leading website between December 2022 and November 2023, with more than *** billion monthly visits. The search engine was also popular with its Turkish domain, google.com.tr, reaching *** million monthly visits and placing ninth in the ranking. Additionally, YouTube.com and Twitter.com (now called "X") became the second and third most visited websites in the country.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In 2019, the Chinese marketplace Alibaba was the leading worldwide B2B e-commerce in terms of online traffic. The Alexa tool assessing the online traffic of websites put it on the top of the ranking, with a score of ***. The Russian Rosfirm and the U.S. platform Vinsuite followed in the ranking with a score of ***** and *****, respectively.

In January 2025, fragrantica.com ranked as the most visited beauty and cosmetics website worldwide. The site attracted nearly ** million website visits that month, followed by sephora.com with around ** million. Boots.com placed third in the ranking, with roughly ** million website visits.

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.