Top 10 most visited websites in the world by monthly visits. This ranking includes only websites and does not include applications or websites outside of the World Wide Web.
1.Google.com
Approximately 90.1 billion visits per month
Website type: Search engine
Launched: 1997
Owner: Alphabet, Inc.
Google.com is by far the most visited website in the world. The search engine attracts an average of about 90.1 billion visits per month. Google is the largest and most widely used search engine in the world, so it's no surprise. Since its launch in 1997, the search engine has indexed more than 150 trillion (yes, trillion) web pages to date. Google.com is owned and operated by Google's parent company, Alphabet, which was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the inventors of Google's search engine.
2. YouTube.com
YouTube
About 35 billion visits per month
Website type: Video hosting
Launched: 2005
Owner: Alphabet, Inc.
Youtube.com is the second most visited website in the world. The world's most popular video hosting website to date gets an average of about 35 billion visits per month. To date, YouTube hosts more than 5 billion videos, with an average of about 500 hours of video uploaded to the site every day. YouTube has been online since 2005 and has been owned by Google / Alphabet since 2006. As a result, Alphabet has two of the most popular sites in the world right now.
3.Facebook.com
About 20.3 billion visits per month
Website type: Social media
Launched: 2004
所有者： Meta Platforms, Inc.
As the most popular social media platform in the world, Facebook finds itself at number one. Ranked 3rd in the ranking of the 10 most popular websites in the world. Facebook attracts an average of about 20.3 billion visits per month. Since its launch in 2004, the site has been owned and operated by Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook, Inc.), the company behind the platform, founded and led by Mark Zuckerberg.
4. Twitter.com
About 7 billion visits per month
Website type: Social media
Launched: 2006
Owner: Elon Musk (privately owned)
Twitter is a very popular social media platform for microblogging, especially in recent years. The platform is not only used by ordinary citizens, but it is also considered the social media platform of choice for many world leaders around the world. While the Twitter website is primarily used as an app, it now generates an average of about 7 billion visits per month and is therefore one of the most popular sites on the internet.
5.Instagram.com
Approximately 6.7 billion visits per month
Website type: Social media
Launched: 2010
所有者： Meta Platforms, Inc.
Meta Platform's secondary social media platform is also one of the most visited websites in the world. Instagram is an image- and video-based social media platform that is currently growing much faster than Facebook itself. Although Instagram's website is primarily used as an app, it also receives about 6.7 billion monthly visits, making Instagram one of the most visited websites in the world as well.
6. Baidu
Baidu
Approximately 5.9 billion visits per month
Website type: Search engine
Online since: 2000
Owner: Baidu Inc
Baidu is the most popular non-US website in the world. Baidu can be described as the "Google of China". It generates an average of about 5.9 billion visits per month. The search engine website has been online since 2000. Although Baidu's founder, Robin Li, actually invented the concept of a link analysis search engine as early as 1996, even before Google went online. In fact, Google's search engine is partly based on Lee's concept. In 2000, Robin Li provided his own version for the Internet, and since then, Baidu has dominated the Chinese search engine market.
7. Wikipedia
Wikipedia
Approximately 5.3 billion visits per month
Site type: Encyclopedia
Online since: 2001
Owner: Wikimedia Foundation
Wikipedia is also one of the most popular websites in the world. This free online encyclopedia attracts an average of about 5.3 billion visits worldwide per month. Wikipedia is currently also the only one in the top 10 most popular websites in the world that is owned by a non-profit organization (the Wikimedia Foundation, based in San Francisco, to be exact). Since its launch in 2001, Wikipedia has truly changed the way the world searches and finds information on a variety of topics.
8.Yandex.ru
Yandex
About 4.1 billion visits per month
Website type: search engine and news aggregator
Launched: 1997
Owner: Yandex NV
Yandex is called "Russian Google", or, more precisely, "Russian Yahoo", because it is the most popular search engine on the Russian-language Internet and its main news aggregator. Yandex has an average of about 4.1 billion visits per month. Although Yandex is less popular outside of Russian-speaking countries, it is still among the most visited sites in the world.
9. Yahoo Websites
Yahoo
Approximately 3.8 billion visits per month
Website type: search engine and news aggregator
Launched: 1995
Owner: Yahoo Inc
Yahoo is known as one of the earliest pioneers of the Internet. It was launched in 1995 and was one of the most popular websites on the first generation of mainstream internet. While Yahoo isn't as popular as it once was, today it's a search engine and news aggregator and still ranks among the most popular websites in the world, with around 3.8 billion visits per month.
10.Whatsapp.com
Approximately 3.2 billion visits per month
Website type: Messenger
Launched: 1995
所有者： Meta Platforms, Inc.
The world's most popular messaging app also represents one of the most popular websites in the world. The WhatsApp website is also part of Meta Platforms and attracts about 3.2 billion visits per month.
Top 10 most visited websites in the world in 2022
(As of April 2022)
| 1. GOOGLE.com About 90.1 billion visits per month |
| 2. YOUTUBE.com Approximately 35 billion visits per month |
| 3. FACEBOOK.com About 20.3 billion visits per month |
| 4. TWITTER.com About 7 billion visits per month |
| 5. INSTAGRAM.com About 6.7 billion visits per month |
| 6. Baidu.com Approximately 5.9 billion visits per month |
| 7. WIKIPEDIA.org About 5.3 billion visits per month |
| 8. YANDEX.ru Approximately 4.1 billion visits per month |
| 9. YAHOO.com About 3.6 billion visits per month |
| 10. WHATSAPP.com Approximately 3.2 billion visits per month |