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 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.

This is a dataset of Tor cell file extracted from browsing simulation using Tor Browser. The simulations cover both desktop and mobile webpages. The data collection process was using WFP-Collector tool (https://github.com/irsyadpage/WFP-Collector). All the neccessary configuration to perform the simulation as detailed in the tool repository.The webpage URL is selected by using the first 100 website based on: https://dataforseo.com/free-seo-stats/top-1000-websites.Each webpage URL is visited 90 times for each deskop and mobile browsing mode.

Among the top 100 referring websites to Amazon in the United States, the majority of the traffic directed to Amazon came from news and media websites during Amazon Prime Days in 2019 and 2020. While directed traffic from both news and media websites and other sites stayed the same across the last two Amazon Prime Day events, share of traffic coming to Amazon from coupon and rebate websites saw an increase in October 2020 and reached to 16 percent, marking an increase of four percent from July 2019.

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 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.

We present a dataset targeting a large set of popular pages (Alexa top-500), from probes from several ISPs networks, browsers software (Chrome, Firefox) and viewport combinations, for over 200,000 experiments realized in 2019.We purposely collect two distinct sets with two different tools, namely Web Page Test (WPT) and Web View (WV), varying a number of relevant parameters and conditions, for a total of 200K+ web sessions, roughly equally split among WV and WPT. Our dataset comprises variations in terms of geographical coverage, scale, diversity and representativeness (location, targets, protocol, browser, viewports, metrics).For Web Page Test, we used the online service www.webpagetest.org at different locations worldwide (Europe, Asia, USA) and private WPT instances in three locations in China (Beijing, Shanghai, Dongguan). The list of target URLs comprised the main pages and five random subpages from Alexa top-500 worldwide and China. We varied network conditions : native connections and 4G, FIOS, 3GFast, DSL, and custom shaping/loss conditions. The other elements in the configuration were fixed: Chrome browser on desktop with a fixed screen resolution, HTTP/2 protocol and IPv4.For Web View, we collected experiments from three machines located in France. We selected two versions of two browser families (Chrome 75/77, Firefox 63/68), two screen sizes (1920x1080, 1440x900), and employ different browser configurations (one half of the experiments activate the AdBlock plugin) from two different access technologies (fiber and ADSL). From a protocol standpoint, we used both IPv4 and IPv6, with HTTP/2 and QUIC, and performed repeated experiments with cached objects/DNS. Given the settings diversity, we restricted the number of websites to about 50 among the Alexa top-500 websites, to ensure statistical relevance of the collected samples for each page.The two archives IFIPNetworking2020_WebViewOrange.zip and IFIPNetworking2020_Webpagetest.zip correspond respectively to the Web View experiments and to the Web Page Test experiments.Each archive contains three files:- config.csv: Description of parameters and conditions for each run,- metrics.csv: Value of different metrics collected by the browser,- progressionCurves.csv: Progression curves of the bytes progress as seen by the network, from 0 to 10 seconds by steps of 100 milliseconds,- listUrl folder: Indexes the sets of urls.Regarding config.csv, the columns are: - index: Index for this set of conditions, - location: Location of the machine, - listUrl: List of urls, located in the folder listUrl - browserUsed: Internet browser and version - terminal: Desktop or Mobile - collectionEnvironment: Identification of the collection environment - networkConditionsTrafficShaping (WPT only): Whether native condition or traffic shaping (4G, FIOS, 3GFast, DSL, or custom Emulator conditions) - networkConditionsBandwidth (WPT only): Bandwidth of the network - networkConditionsDelay (WPT only): Delay in the network - networkConditions (WV only): network conditions - ipMode (WV only): requested L3 protocol, - requestedProtocol (WV only): requested L7 protocol - adBlocker (WV only): Whether adBlocker is used or not - winSize (WV only): Window sizeRegarding metrics.csv, the columns are: - id: Unique identification of an experiment (consisting of an index 'set of conditions' and an index 'current page') - DOM Content Loaded Event End (ms): DOM time, - First Paint (ms) (WV only): First paint time, - Load Event End (ms): Page Load Time from W3C, - RUM Speed Index (ms) (WV only): RUM Speed Index, - Speed Index (ms) (WPT only): Speed Index, - Time for Full Visual Rendering (ms) (WV only): Time for Full Visual Rendering - Visible portion (%) (WV only): Visible portion, - Time to First Byte (ms) (WPT only): Time to First Byte, - Visually Complete (ms) (WPT only): Visually Complete used to compute the Speed Index, - aatf: aatf using ATF-chrome-plugin - bi_aatf: bi_aatf using ATF-chrome-plugin - bi_plt: bi_plt using ATF-chrome-plugin - dom: dom using ATF-chrome-plugin - ii_aatf: ii_aatf using ATF-chrome-plugin - ii_plt: ii_plt using ATF-chrome-plugin - last_css: last_css using ATF-chrome-plugin - last_img: last_img using ATF-chrome-plugin - last_js: last_js using ATF-chrome-plugin - nb_ress_css: nb_ress_css using ATF-chrome-plugin - nb_ress_img: nb_ress_img using ATF-chrome-plugin - nb_ress_js: nb_ress_js using ATF-chrome-plugin - num_origins: num_origins using ATF-chrome-plugin - num_ressources: num_ressources using ATF-chrome-plugin - oi_aatf: oi_aatf using ATF-chrome-plugin - oi_plt: oi_plt using ATF-chrome-plugin - plt: plt using ATF-chrome-pluginRegarding progressionCurves.csv, the columns are: - id: Unique identification of an experiment (consisting of an index 'set of conditions' and an index 'current page') - url: Url of the current page. SUBPAGE stands for a path. - run: Current run (linked with index of the config for WPT) - filename: Filename of the pcap - fullname: Fullname of the pcap - har_size: Size of the HAR for this experiment, - pagedata_size: Size of the page data report - pcap_size: Size of the pcap - App Byte Index (ms): Application Byte Index as computed from the har file (in the browser) - bytesIn_APP: Total bytes in as seen in the browser, - bytesIn_NET: Total bytes in as seen in the network, - X_BI_net: Network Byte Index computed from the pcap file (in the network) - X_bin_0_for_B_completion to X_bin_99_for_B_completion: X_bin_k_for_B_completion is the bytes progress reached after k*100 millisecondsIf you use these datasets in your research, you can reference to the appropriate paper:@inproceedings{qoeNetworking2020, title={Revealing QoE of Web Users from Encrypted Network Traffic}, author={Huet, Alexis and Saverimoutou, Antoine and Ben Houidi, Zied and Shi, Hao and Cai, Shengming and Xu, Jinchun and Mathieu, Bertrand and Rossi, Dario}, booktitle={2020 IFIP Networking Conference (IFIP Networking)}, year={2020}, organization={IEEE}}

Among one million websites receiving largest traffic, *** percent was using header-bidding technology in July 2025. The same was true for ***** percent of websites among the top 100 thousand and ***percent among the top 10 thousand.

In March 2024, search platform Google.com generated approximately 85.5 billion visits, down from 87 billion platform visits in October 2023. Google is a global search platform and one of the biggest online companies worldwide.

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.

In May 2025, the United States was responsible for 21.1 percent of the traffic to Google.com. In terms of web visits to the search platform, Japan came in second with 6.46 percent, followed by Brazil and India with 5.58 and 4.76 percent, respectively.

As of May 2025, approximately 71.4 percent of the total web traffic in Asia came from a mobile device. That was a slight increase from the previous year, when mobile devices accounted for about 69.3 percent of the total web traffic in the region.

In December 2024, the news website with the most monthly visits in the United States was nytimes.com, with a total of 463.07 million monthly visits in that month. In second place was cnn.com with close to 357 million visits, followed by foxnews.com with just over a quater of a million. Online news consumption in the U.S. Americans get their news in a variety of ways, but social media is an increasingly popular option. A survey on social media news consumption revealed that 55 percent of Twitter users regularly used the site for news, and Facebook and Reddit were also popular for news among their users. Interestingly though, social media is the least trusted news sources in the United States. News and trust Trust in news sources has become increasingly important to the American news consumer amidst the spread of fake news, and the public are more vocal about whether or not they have faith in a source to report news correctly. Ongoing discussions about the credibility, accuracy and bias of news networks, anchors, TV show hosts, and news media professionals mean that those looking to keep up to date tend to be more cautious than ever before. In general, news audiences are skeptical. In 2020, just nine percent of respondents to a survey investigating the perceived objectivity of the mass media reported having a great deal of trust in the media to report news fully, accurately, and fairly.

In 2024, Tinder.com was the most popular dating website worldwide, registering over ************* average monthly visits. Badoo.com ranked second with ************* monthly visits, while Bumble.com generated roughly almost ************* average visits during the analyzed period.

As of February 2025, English was the most popular language for web content, with over 49.4 percent of websites using it. Spanish ranked second, with six percent of web content, while the content in the German language followed, with 5.6 percent. English as the leading online language United States and India, the countries with the most internet users after China, are also the world's biggest English-speaking markets. The internet user base in both countries combined, as of January 2023, was over a billion individuals. This has led to most of the online information being created in English. Consequently, even those who are not native speakers may use it for convenience. Global internet usage by regions As of October 2024, the number of internet users worldwide was 5.52 billion. In the same period, Northern Europe and North America were leading in terms of internet penetration rates worldwide, with around 97 percent of its populations accessing the internet.

Zillow reigns supreme in the U.S. real estate website landscape, attracting a staggering ***** million monthly visits in 2024. This figure dwarfs its closest competitor, Realtor.com, which garnered less than half of Zillow's traffic. Online platforms are extremely popular, with the majority of homebuyers using a mobile device during the buying process. The rise of Zillow Founded in 2006, the Seattle-headquartered proptech Zillow has steadily grown over the years, establishing itself as the most popular U.S. real estate website. In 2023, the listing platform recorded about *** million unique monthly users across its mobile applications and website. Despite holding an undisputed position as a market leader, Zillow's revenue has decreased since 2021. A probable cause for the decline is the plummeting of housing transactions and the negative housing sentiment. Performance and trends in the proptech market The proptech market has shown remarkable performance, with companies like Opendoor and Redfin experiencing significant stock price increase in 2023. This growth is particularly notable in the residential brokerage segment. Meanwhile, major players in proptech fundraising, such as Fifth Wall and Hidden Hill Capital, have raised billions in direct investment, further fueling the sector's development. As technology continues to reshape the real estate industry, online platforms like Zillow are likely to play an increasingly crucial role in how people search for and purchase homes. (1477916, 1251604)

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 November 2024, Fox News ranked first among the most popular multiplatform conservative and right-wing websites in the United States with over 91 million unique visitors from mobile and desktop connections. Outkick ranked second with approximately 7.71 million unique monthly visitors.

As of April 2023, Amazon was by far the most popular online marketplace worldwide, averaging about *** billion visits that month. The second most visited shopping site was eBay, with roughly *** billion visits. In addition, both were also the world' s top online retailers in terms of mobile web traffic.