The 50 most visited websites in the world, and Europe only exists in…
Estimates vary, but in 2023 there will be about two billion websites, one for every four people on Earth. It cannot be said that the sites are lacking.
If we were to rank all of these websites according to their traffic numbers, we would see a classic power law distribution. At the lower end, the vast majority of these websites would be down and not receiving any traffic. At the top end of the rankings, however, a handful of websites receive the majority of internet traffic.
This visualization, which uses data from SimilarWeb, takes a look at the 50 websites that currently rank at the top.
At the top of the list of the most visited websites in the world is, of course, Google. With over 3.5 billion searches per day, Google has solidified its position as the primary source of information on the Internet. But Google's dominance doesn't stop there. The company also owns YouTube, the second most popular website in the world. Together, Google and YouTube have more traffic than the next 48 websites combined.
The power of YouTube, in particular, is sometimes not fully understood. The video platform is the second largest search engine in the world after Google. Furthermore, YouTube has the second highest visit duration in this ranking of the 50 websites. (First place goes to Chinese video sharing site Bilibili).
But Google and YouTube aren't the only big players on the Internet. Other websites featured in the top 50 include social media giants Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok. In particular, TikTok has experienced a surge in popularity in recent years and is now one of the most popular social media platforms in the world. The sites are mostly either US or Chinese and Russian. Is Europe in the top 50? Sure, but only with pornographic sites! All the success of European technology and the development pushed by the Commission is expressed in showing, to put it mildly, nudity.
Here is the complete ranking of the top 50:
| rank | Website | Monthly traffic | category | country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Google. com | 85.1B | Search Engines |  US |
| #2 | youtube.com | 33.0B | Streaming & Online TV | US |
| #3 | facebook.com | 17.8B | Social Media Networks | US |
| #4 | twitter.com | 6.8B | Social Media Networks | US |
| #5 | instagram.com | 6.1B | Social Media Networks | US |
| #6 | baidu.com | 5.0B | Search Engines |  china |
| #7 | wikipedia.org | 4.8B | Dictionaries & Encyclopedias | US |
| #8 | yandex.ru | 3.4B | Search Engines |  Russia |
| #9 | yahoo.com | 3.3B | News & Media Publishers | US |
| #10 | whatsapp.com | 2.9B | Social Media Networks | US |
| #11 | xvideo.com | 2.8B | adult |  Czechia |
| #12 | amazon.com | 2.6B | Marketplaces | US |
| #13 | pornhub. com | 2.5B | adult |  Canada |
| #14 | xnxx.com | 2.3B | adult |  France |
| #15 | live.com | 2.1B | US |
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| #16 | yahoo.co.jp | 2.1B | News & Media Publishers |  Japan |
| #17 | netflix.com | 2.0B | Streaming & Online TV | US |
| #18 | tiktok.com | 1.8B | Social Media Networks | china |
| #19 | docomo.ne.jp | 1.8B | Telecommunications | Japan |
| #20 | reddit.com | 1.7B | Social Media Networks | US |
| #21 | office.com | 1.6B | prog. & Software Developer | US |
| #22 | linkedin. com | 1.6B | Social Media Networks | US |
| #23 | dzen.ru | 1.4B | Faith & Beliefs | Russia |
| #24 | samsung.com | 1.4B | consumer electronics |  S.Korea |
| #25 | vk.com | 1.4B | Social Media Networks | Russia |
| #26 | xhamster. com | 1.3B | adult |  Cyprus |
| #27 | turbopages.org | 1.3B | News & Media Publishers | Russia |
| #28 | mail.ru | 1.2B | Russia |
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| #29 | naver.com | 1.2B | News & Media Publishers | S.Korea |
| #30 | bing.com | 1.2B | Search Engines | US |
| #31 | microsoftonline.com | 1.1B | prog. & Software Developer | US |
| #32 | discord. com | 1.1B | Social Media Networks | US |
| #33 | twitch.tv | 1.1B | Gaming & Accessories | US |
| #34 | bilibili. com | 1.0B | Animations & Comics | china |
| #35 | pinterest. com | 1.0B | Social Media Networks | US |
| #36 | zoom.us | 985.9M | Computers Electronics & Tech | US |
| #37 | weather.com | 985.7M | Weather | US |
| #38 | qq.com | 907.1M | News & Media Publishers | china |
| #39 | microsoft.com | 902.3M | prog. & Software Developer | US |
| #40 | msn. com | 870.8M | News & Media Publishers | US |
| #41 | globe.com | 840.1M | News & Media Publishers |  Brazil |
| #42 | duckduckgo.com | 839.0M | Search Engines | US |
| #43 | roblox.com | 795.7M | Gaming & Accessories | US |
| #44 | quora.com | 775.9M | Dictionaries & Encyclopedias | US |
| #45 | news.yahoo.co.jp | 749.1M | News & Media Publishers | Japan |
| #46 | ebay.com | 728.0M | Marketplaces | US |
| #47 | aajtak.in | 724.1M | News & Media Publishers |  India |
| #48 | nytimes.com | 702.2M | News & Media Publishers | US |
| #49 | realsrv. com | 688.0M | adult | US |
| #50 | cnn.com | 684.9M | News & Media Publishers | US |
Instead, here's another image showing distribution by country:
So the web remains something essentially controlled by American companies and sites, with some Chinese, Russian, and BRICS countries intruding, with Europe having exiled itself into porn. After all, what do we have to say to the world now that we are homogenized by the Commission?
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