Websites in the energy, utilities, and construction sector averaged the largest amount of visits per online session worldwide. In the fourth quarter of 2022, desktop users in that segment visited around seven pages per online session. Travel and hospitality ranked second, with an average of almost six pages visited. In terms of mobile users, travel and hospitality registered the highest number of page views, followed by retail.

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 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.

A complete list of live websites using the Advanced Page Visit Counter technology, compiled through global website indexing conducted by WebTechSurvey.

The Top Websites in the World

How They Change Over Time

About this dataset

This dataset consists of the top 50 most visited websites in the world, as well as the category and principal country/territory for each site. The data provides insights into which sites are most popular globally, and what type of content is most popular in different parts of the world

How to use the dataset

This dataset can be used to track the most popular websites in the world over time. It can also be used to compare website popularity between different countries and categories

Research Ideas

• To track the most popular websites in the world over time
• To see how website popularity changes by region
• To find out which website categories are most popular

Acknowledgements

Dataset by Alexa Internet, Inc. (2019), released on Kaggle under the Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (ODC-PDDL)

License

License: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) - Public Domain Dedication No Copyright - You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. See Other Information.

Columns

File: df_1.csv | Column name | Description | |:--------------------------------|:---------------------------------------------------------------------| | Site | The name of the website. (String) | | Domain Name | The domain name of the website. (String) | | Category | The category of the website. (String) | | Principal country/territory | The principal country/territory where the website is based. (String) |

Website visit data with URLs, categories, timestamps, and anonymized unique device identifiers.

Over 50 million unique devices per day. 1 billion+ raw signals per month with historical raw data available.

This data can be combined with demographic and lifestyle data to provide a richer view of the anonymous users/devices.

Intended for training ML and AI models.

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 statistic shows the frequency of students visiting colleges' own websites during their college search in the United States in 2015. In 2015, about 47 percent of respondents stated that they visited college websites a few times a week during their search for a college.

In December 2023, the online food delivery marketplace justeat.it was the most visited website in the restaurant and delivery category in Italy, accounting for 24 percent of desktop traffic. Following in second place with a visit share of 9.17 percent was glovoapp.com

Countries and territories of visitors to the City of Brussels website (2014) determined by the geographical area associated with their IP address. Source: Google Analytics.

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, Xvideos.com and Instagram.com were the websites with the most pages per visit in Colombia, with an average of **** and **** pages visited per session each. Despite being the second most accessed in total visits and the website with the second highest average session length, YouTube.com ranked fourth in terms of pages per visit, with **** pages, while Google.com ranked tenth, with **** pages visited per session.

In April 2025, most visits to the travel and tourism website tripadvisor.com came from the United States. During that month, website visits from the U.S. accounted for over half of total visits to Tripadvisor's web page. In 2025, tripadvisor.com was one of the most visited travel and tourism websites worldwide.

This dataset contains the Number of visits to the MCPL website by month. Update frequency : Annually

In November 2024, Google.com was the leading website in Colombia by unique visits, with around 52.9 million single accesses to the URL during that month. YouTube.com came in second with approximately 30.9 million unique monthly visits. Facebook ranked third with 24.2 million unique monthly visits.

In January 2025, ravelry.com was the most visited website among the selected crafts web pages worldwide, with 18 million visits. That month, hobbylobby.com followed in the ranking, with over 14 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.

From September to November 2024, Facebook.com was the most-visited website in Vietnam with an average of 24.4 pages per visit. The same report also revealed that Google.com was the website with the highest number of unique 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.

From September to November 2023, Google.com was the most visited website in Mexico, with approximately 4.29 billion total visits. Its local URL Google.com.mx ranked seventeenth, with about 126 million accesses. Social video platform YouTube.com was in second place with 2.94 billion visits. Additionally, the social media platform Facebook.com ranked fourth with 535 million visits in the examined period.