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 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.

Web traffic statistics for the several City-Parish websites, brla.gov, city.brla.gov, Red Stick Ready, GIS, Open Data etc. Information provided by Google Analytics.

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, 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.

Monthly statistics for pages viewed by visitors to the Queensland Government website—Community support franchise. Source: Google Analytics

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.

Monthly statistics for pages viewed by visitors to the Queensland Government website—Parents and families franchise. Source: Google Analytics

In February 2025, the United States accounted for the highest share of visits to the travel and tourism website booking.com. During that month, website visits from the U.S. represented almost 10 percent of total visits to Booking's web page. In 2025, booking.com was the most visited travel and tourism website worldwide.

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.

Summary time series data of the International Visitor Survey, the National Visitor Survey and the State Tourism Satellite Account, as published by Tourism Research Australia (TRA). These data …Show full descriptionSummary time series data of the International Visitor Survey, the National Visitor Survey and the State Tourism Satellite Account, as published by Tourism Research Australia (TRA). These data sources estimate total visitor expenditure in South Australia, direct tourism jobs and regional tourism expenditure. Breakdowns of visitor origin are also provided, with time series of visitors from the UK, Germany, USA, China and New Zealand, as well as domestic visitors in South Australia. For further details on these datasets please visit the TRA website: https://www.tra.gov.au/research

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.

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.

In December 2024, social video platform YouTube recorded approximately 56 billion visits on mobile and over 23 billion visits from users on desktop devices. The web visitors traffic count from mobiles and smartphones appeared consistently higher than the desktop visit count in the examined months.

In January 2025, the Temu website, temu.com, totaled at 1.1 billion visits. The number of monthly visits has decreased slightly in February, reaching 990.6 million worldwide.

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.

In March 2024, close to 732 million unique global visitors accessed Zoom.us, down from 880 million visitors six months before. Zoom is a videoconferencing platform that gained immense global popularity for remote work, distance education and online social relations during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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.

Between September and November 2023, Google.com was the leading website in Colombia by unique visits, with around 118 million single accesses to the URL during that month. YouTube.com came in second with approximately 78.8 million unique monthly visits. Facebook ranked third with 46.6 million unique monthly visits.

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.