Top 10 Most Visited Websites in the World(2023)

Top 10 Most Visited Websites in the World(2023) – If you spend any time online, it’s likely you’re familiar with some of the world’s most visited websites. On today’s internet, a handful of giants have unmatched dominance.

Since its inception in 1991, the World Wide Web has truly exploded in popularity. There are now currently over 1.7 billion websites in existence according to statisca.

The internet would not be the same without the WWW. There are many different sites for many different topics and services attracting millions of visits every day and every week. But then there are the exceptionally popular sites that are getting billions, yes billions, of visitors every day and every week. The following shows the current Top 10 most visited websites in the World.

The ranking is based on the approximate number of unique visits a website gathers per month and thus displays the most visited websites by unique visits.

Top 10 Most Visited Websites in the World(2023)

Listed below is the list of the top 10 most visited websites in the world.

1. Google

Servicing over two trillion search queries annually through its network, Alphabet-owned Google ranks highest with its flagship domain, Google.com. Google derives approximately 80% of its earnings from ad revenues.

Google.com is the, by far, most visited website in the world. The search engine attracts around 90.1 billion visits per month on average.

This shouldn’t be surprising that Google is the world’s largest and most used search engine. The search engine has been online since 1997 and has indexed more than 150 trillion (yes, trillion) web pages to date.

2. YouTube

Coming in second, on the list of most visited websites in the world is YouTube, which is a global online video-sharing and social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California.

It was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is owned by Google, and is the second most visited website, after Google Search. YouTube has more than 2.5 billion monthly users who collectively watch more than one billion hours of videos each day.

As of May 2019, videos were being uploaded at more than 500 hours of content per minute.

3. Facebook

Mark Zuckerberg owned Facebook, is third on the list of most visited websites in the World.

Facebook attracts an average of around 20.3 billion visits per month. The website has been online since 2004. On average, users spend 34 minutes on the site daily, while 36% of users say it’s also where they get their news—higher than any other social network.

It is owned and operated by Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook, Inc.), the corporation behind the platform.

4. Twitter

Twitter is an online social media and social networking service owned and operated by American company Twitter, Inc., on which users send and respond publicly or privately to 280-character-long messages, images, and videos known as “tweets”.

Registered users can tweet, like, and ‘retweet’ tweets and direct message (DM), while unregistered users only have the ability to view public tweets.

The Twitter platform is not only used by private citizens but is also known to be the go-to social media platform for many world leaders around the world.

While predominantly used as an app, the Twitter website now generates around 7 billion visits per month on average and is hence also one of the most popular websites on the internet.

5. Instagram

The Meta Platform’s secondary social media platform is also among the world’s most visited websites.

The app allows users to upload media that can be edited with filters and organized by hashtags and geographical tagging. Posts can be shared publicly or with preapproved followers. Users can browse other users’ content by tag and location, view trending content, like photos, and follow other users to add their content to a personal feed.

While mostly used as an App, Instagram’s website is also visited around 6.7 billion times each month, thus making Instagram also one of the most visited websites in the world.

6. Baidu

Baidu.com is the world’s most popular website that is not based in the United States. Baidu can be described as the “Chinese Google”.

It generates an average of around 5.9 billion visits per month. The search engine website has been online since 2000.

Although the founder of Baidu, Robin Li, had actually already invented the concept of a link-analyzing search engine as early as 1996 and therefore even before Google went online.

In fact, Google’s search engine is partly based on Li’s concept. Li gave the internet his own version in 2000 and Baidu has dominated the Chinese search engine market ever since.

7. Wikipedia

Wikipedia is also among the most popular websites in the world. The free online encyclopedia is able to attract around 5.3 billion visits worldwide per month on average.

Wikipedia is currently also the only website in the Top 10 ranking of the most popular websites in the world that is owned by a non-profit organization, the San Francisco-based Wikimedia Foundation to be exact.

Wikipedia has been online since 2001 and ever since truly changed the way the world searches and finds information about various topics.

8. Yandex

Yandex is a Russian multinational technology company providing Internet-related products and services, including an Internet search engine, information services, e-commerce, transportation, maps and navigation, mobile applications, and online advertising.

Known as the “Russian Google”, Yandex primarily serves audiences in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States of the former Soviet Union and has more than 30 offices worldwide.

Around 4.1 billion visits go to Yandex each month on average. While not very popular outside of Russian-speaking countries, Yandex still belongs to the most visited websites in the world.

9. Yahoo

Yahoo is known as one of the earliest groundbreakers of the Internet. Launched in 1995, it was one of the most popular sites on the first-generation mainstream internet.

While not as popular as it once was, Yahoo, today a search engine and news aggregator, still finds itself among the most popular websites in the world with around 3.8 billion visits per month.

10. Whatsapp

WhatsApp (also called WhatsApp Messenger) is an internationally available freeware, cross-platform, centralized instant messaging (IM) and voice-over-IP (VoIP) service owned by American company Meta Platforms.

It allows users to send text and voice messages, make voice and video calls, and share images, documents, user locations, and other content.

The WhatsApp website attracts approximately 3.2 billion visits every month.

Conclusion

Google.com is ranked #1 as the most visited website in the world as of December 2022. The average amount of time that users spend on the website is 00:10:35 minutes, and they see, on average, 8.29 pages per visit.

Pages per visit is a popular engagement metric that is calculated by dividing the total number of website views by the total number of visitors.

The bounce rate for google.com is 28.77%, meaning that 28.77% of visitors leave the website after viewing just one page. In addition to being ranked the number one website, google.com is also the top website in the Computers Electronics and Technology > Search Engines category.

YouTube.com and Facebook.com are ranked 2nd and 3rd on the list. In terms of user engagement, youtube.com has an average visit duration of 00:19:51 minutes, an average page per visit of 11.14, and a bounce rate of 20.46%. Similarly, facebook.com’s average visit duration is 00:09:31 minutes, its average pages per visit are 8.36, and its bounce rate is 32.55%.

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Sources:

• https://www.alltopeverything.com/most-popular-websites-in-the-world/
•  https://www.similarweb.com/top-websites/