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.

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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.

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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.

From February to July 2024, February was the month that had the most website traffic to ebay.com. The consumer-to-consumer (C2C) e-commerce website reached a total of over *** million visits in that month, with the majority being from mobile devices. Popularity on multiple fronts Although eBay is popular on mobile devices, monthly downloads of its mobile app have been trending in the wrong direction since peaking in June 2020 at **** million. Still, in April 2023, ebay.com was the second most popular e-commerce and shopping website worldwide, accounting for more than ***** percent of visits to sites in this category. Big numbers declining In the second quarter of 2023, eBay’s gross merchandise volume (GMV) amounted to nearly **** billion U.S. dollars. That is no small number, but is only a small increase compared to the lowest GMV recorded by the company since the first quarter of 2020 - **** billion U.S. dollars in the third quarter of 2022 - and that’s not the only figure on the decline for eBay. The e-commerce platform had approximately *** million active buyers in the second quarter of 2022, and a year later that number was down *** percent to *** million.

General data recollected for the studio " Analysis of the Quantitative Impact of Social Networks on Web Traffic of Cybermedia in the 27 Countries of the European Union". Four research questions are posed: what percentage of the total web traffic generated by cybermedia in the European Union comes from social networks? Is said percentage higher or lower than that provided through direct traffic and through the use of search engines via SEO positioning? Which social networks have a greater impact? And is there any degree of relationship between the specific weight of social networks in the web traffic of a cybermedia and circumstances such as the average duration of the user's visit, the number of page views or the bounce rate understood in its formal aspect of not performing any kind of interaction on the visited page beyond reading its content? To answer these questions, we have first proceeded to a selection of the cybermedia with the highest web traffic of the 27 countries that are currently part of the European Union after the United Kingdom left on December 31, 2020. In each nation we have selected five media using a combination of the global web traffic metrics provided by the tools Alexa (https://www.alexa.com/), which ceased to be operational on May 1, 2022, and SimilarWeb (https:// www.similarweb.com/). We have not used local metrics by country since the results obtained with these first two tools were sufficiently significant and our objective is not to establish a ranking of cybermedia by nation but to examine the relevance of social networks in their web traffic. In all cases, cybermedia whose property corresponds to a journalistic company have been selected, ruling out those belonging to telecommunications portals or service providers; in some cases they correspond to classic information companies (both newspapers and televisions) while in others they refer to digital natives, without this circumstance affecting the nature of the research proposed.
Below we have proceeded to examine the web traffic data of said cybermedia. The period corresponding to the months of October, November and December 2021 and January, February and March 2022 has been selected. We believe that this six-month stretch allows possible one-time variations to be overcome for a month, reinforcing the precision of the data obtained. To secure this data, we have used the SimilarWeb tool, currently the most precise tool that exists when examining the web traffic of a portal, although it is limited to that coming from desktops and laptops, without taking into account those that come from mobile devices, currently impossible to determine with existing measurement tools on the market. It includes:

Web traffic general data: average visit duration, pages per visit and bounce rate Web traffic origin by country Percentage of traffic generated from social media over total web traffic Distribution of web traffic generated from social networks Comparison of web traffic generated from social netwoks with direct and search procedures

In 2024, nih.com was the most-visited healthcare website worldwide, with an average of ************** visits per month. Healthline.com was ranked second with *********** visits, followed by mayoclinic.org with ************** average accesses.

Between January and March 2021, the majority of traffic to YouTube's website was organic traffic, with only **** million paid visits on average per month. Direct traffic to YouTube.com averaged *** billion visits per month, up by ** percent from the corresponding period in the previous year. Users who landed on YouTube's website after looking for keywords on a search engine amassed *** million monthly visits on average, while traffic from links placed on other websites had a volume of close to *** million visits.

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.

In September 2022, Baidu.com held the leading position as the most popular technology and digital company website based on global traffic. China's leading internet search provider saw over five billion monthly website visits on average in the examined month. The e-commerce giant Amazon.com came in second, with over 2.3 billion monthly visits from users worldwide. Additionally, the subscription-based video platform Netflix.com ranked third with approximately two billion monthly visitors.

Zillow.com was the most-visited real estate website worldwide in 2024, with an average of ************* visits per month during the measured period. Leboncoin.fr ranked second, with ***** million monthly visits, while Carigslist.org ranked third, with ***** million average accesses.

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.

Galaxus recorded over 24 million visitors to its Swiss, German, and Austrian domains in March 2025. This was a traffic increase of over two million visits from the month before. The Swiss e-tailer's Swiss domain, galaxus.ch, received the large majority of traffic in 2025.

In the measured time period, January 2025 saw the highest figures for online classifieds site craigslist.org. According to the data, desktop and mobile visits to depop.com reached 142.7 million visits that month.

In 2024, openai.com was the most-visited computer software and development website worldwide, with an average of ************ visits per month during the measured period. Office.com was ranked second with ************ monthly visits, followed by zoom.us with over *********** average accesses.

In April 2021, worldwide visits to YouTube.com amounted to roughly ************. Between January 2017 and April 2021, visitor traffic to YouTube.com has increased by more than *** percent. In 2020, visits to the platform's website experienced an upward trend between the months of April and June.

In 2024, Fragrantica.com was the most-visited beauty and cosmetics website worldwide, with an average ************* visits per month during the measured period. Sephora.com was ranked second with ************ visits.

Total website visits to etsy.com peaked in November 2023, with over *** million visits. Headquartered in New York, Etsy is a leading consumer-to-consumer (C2C) marketplace specialized in handmade crafts.