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 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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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 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.

Between September and November 2023, Google.com ranked as the most visited website in Ghana, with an average of nearly 53 million total visits per month. The video content platform, YouTube.com, was the website with the second highest average monthly visitors, at roughly 20 million visits, while Xvideos.com placed third with around seven million visits in the same period.

In November 2024, Google.com ranked as the most visited website in Kenya, with nearly 1.44 billion visits. YouTube followed, totaling at just over 810 million visits, while Chatgpt had roughly 255 million visits during the same period.

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.

In January 2024, newsweek.com was the fastest growing news site worldwide, with a YOY traffic increase of 82.7 percent. Most news websites in the top 10 saw growth of around to 30 to 40 percent year over year, with only newsweek.com, livemint.com, and aljazeera.com surpassing this level of growth.

In April 2023, verkkokauppa.com was the leading marketplace website in Finland. During the measured period, the platform accounted for 13.95 percent of desktop traffic. Gigantti.fi followed with over 10 percent of visits.

Between September and November 2024, google.com was the most visited website in the Philippines, with monthly average visits amounting to **** billion. facebook.com and youtube.com follows.

Between September 1st and November 30th 2023, Google.com ranked as the most visited website in Nigeria, with close to 421 million total visits. The video content platform YouTube.com followed with just over 97 million visits, while Xvideos.com had 73.6 million visits that same period of time that year.

In February 2024, the Indonesian e-commerce Shopee ranked first among the most clicked e-commerce sites in Indonesia, with around 228 million clicks. This was followed by Tokopedia and Lazada ID. The rise of e-commerce in Indonesia E-commerce has been on the rise in Indonesia for a while now and is not expected to stop anytime soon. The archipelago stretches from the western end on Sumatra to the easternmost point in New Guinea over 17 thousand islands and well over five thousand kilometers. As a result, it is difficult for ordinary businesses to reach customers in remote areas. In addition to the on-going traffic issues in key cities like Java, online shopping solutions are a great way to succeed. Challenges for e-commerce players However, this does not mean that every e-commerce company is successful. It is rather important to adapt the service to the local market. For example, Bukalapak noticed that not everybody in Indonesia is online yet and therefore established close partnerships with small shops across the country. These little shops can be approached by inhabitants without an internet connection. For the people it is a possibility to have access to a variety of products and Bukalapak can generate money with clients who don’t even have internet access.

Pornhub, which is owned by the Canadian entertainment conglomerate Aylo, saw over three billion visits to its website from users based in the United States in January 2024. Web visits from Indonesia ranked second, as almost 765 million visits from the country were registered to Pornhub in the examined period. Brazil followed, with around 503 million visits to the popular pornographic website. France users generated approximately 470 million visits to the website during the measured month.

In May 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.

Among one million websites receiving largest traffic, 3.3 percent was using header-bidding technology in October 2023. The same was true for 10 percent of websites among the top 100 thousand and 15 percent among the top 10 thousand.