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.

With approximately *** million website visits in October 2024, sportybet.com had the most traffic of any gambling website worldwide. Headquartered in Ghana, sportybet.com had more than ** million visits than second-placed stake.com that month.

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 the United States, digital products made up the e-commerce website category with the highest monthly traffic, with almost **** million average visits per month in 2021. Consumer electronics was the second most visited site category, with nearly ** million monthly average visits.

As of November 2021, in over ** 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 ** percent of YouTube's web traffic over the same period.

In the second quarter of 2025, mobile devices (excluding tablets) accounted for 62.54 percent of global website traffic. Since consistently maintaining a share of around 50 percent beginning in 2017, mobile usage surpassed this threshold in 2020 and has demonstrated steady growth in its dominance of global web access. 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.

The news website Tengrinews.kz had the highest average monthly traffic among the most popular local websites in Kazakhstan, having been frequented over ** million times per month in 2023. It was followed by Gismeteo.kz, a weather forecast website, with around ** million visits on average each month.

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.

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.

Google.com, youtube.com, and facebook.com were the most visited websites in Ukraine in December 2021. Furthermore, Google's website on the Ukrainian domain, google.com.ua, ranked in the top 10 during that time.

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.

The highest traffic share for news websites, in Romania in ************, such as hotnews.ro and digi24.ro in Romania came from mobile devices. By contrast, the desktop share of google.ro and facebook.com was roughly ******* of visits.

In November 2024, search platform Google.com was the top ranking website in Canada, with average monthly traffic of 2.71 billion visits. YouTube ranked second with 1.5 billion visits. Reddit.com ranked third, with total monthly traffic of 301 million visits.

Over the period from ************** to **************, the number of monthly visitors of the travel website Tutu.ru, which was the most popular in that category in Russia, peaked in ********* at over **********. The traffic of Tripadvisor in Russia was the highest in ********* at nearly ********** monthly visitors.

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 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.

Across popular online marketplace websites, local marketplace trademe.co.nz registered the highest number of site visits at around ***** million visits in New Zealand in February 2025. Chinese marketplace aliexpress.com took second place, recording approximately **** million site visits in New Zealand that same month.

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.

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.