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 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 April 2021, worldwide visits to YouTube.com amounted to roughly four billion. Between January 2017 and April 2021, visitor traffic to YouTube.com has increased by more than 250 percent. In 2020, visits to the platform's website experienced an upward trend between the months of April and June.

Overall, retail website traffic in the United States grew in all the last five quarters, experiencing a growth rate of three percent in the most recently recorded quarter. When comparing devices, while desktop traffic struggled with growth, mobile traffic increased by five percent as of Q3 2024.

TrueCar is a marketplace and e-commerce site which provides new and used car buyers with pricing and information related to the car buying experience. In the second quarter of 2021, the company recorded 9.6 million average monthly unique visitors to its site, the most of any quarter listed. Since then, quarterly website traffic has been declining, reaching 8.1 million unique visitors in the most recent quarter.

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 March 2204, X's web page Twitter.com had 6.2 billion website visits worldwide, up from 5.9 billion site visits in the previous month. Formerly known as Twitter, X is a microblogging and social networking service that allows most of its users to write short posts with a maximum of 280 characters.

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.

According to a report published by DataReportal, as of November 2023, the most visited website in Thailand was Google.com with approximately 885 million monthly visits. This was followed by Youtube.com with around 456 million monthly visits in that year.

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.

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 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 693 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 5.16 million. Still, in April 2023, ebay.com was the second most popular e-commerce and shopping website worldwide, accounting for more than three 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 18.2 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 - 17.7 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 138 million active buyers in the second quarter of 2022, and a year later that number was down 4.3 percent to 132 million.

From November 2023 to April 2024, the total traffic to ulta.com decreased from roughly 40 to 32 million website visitors. Most users accessed ulta.com via mobile devices in April 2024, making up about 19 million website visits. That month, desktops accounted for around 12 million website visits.

In March 2024, the video platform YouTube reported around 32.5 billion visits from global users. Meta-owned Facebook.com reported around 16.1 billion visits from global users, as Instagram.com and Twitter.com followed, each with 7 billion and 6.1 billion visits from users worldwide during the examined month. Wikipedia.org, which hosts users-generated encyclopedic entries, recorded around 4.4 billion visits, while news aggregator and community platform Reddit.com saw approximately 2.2 billion visits during the examined period.

The number of unique visitors to the Smithsonian Institution's websites declined by 11.6 percent in 2024 over the previous fiscal year. In the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, the combined number of visits across all Smithsonian websites totaled almost 150 million.

Data shows that over the survey period the Spanish marketplace Zalando.es reported the highest number of website visitors in December 2023 with 14.2 million in total excluding app traffic.

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.

Among some of the world's leading consumer electronics retailers, samsung.com recorded the largest number of monthly visitors to its website, with approximately 1.1 billion visits in April 2024. This figure eclipsed that of long-time rival apple.com, whose overall website traffic was about 433 million visits that month.

In November 2021, mobile devices accounted for nearly 80 percent of the web traffic to Google.com in Kenya. The website had the highest number of total visits in the country. Among the leading websites, most of them had a higher share of traffic from mobile. Youtube.com was an exception, with only one-third of its traffic originating from mobile devices.