The World Wide Web has gained enormous popularity since its launch in 1991. Over 1.7 billion websites are available right now.
Without the WWW, the internet would not be the same. Millions of people visit many websites every day and every week for a wide range of topics and services.
The number of visits to certain incredibly popular websites per day and week is in the billions, yes, billions. It’s possible that you are aware of some of the most popular websites on the internet if you spend any time online.
92.5 billion people use Google.
34.6 billion people use YouTube.
25.5 billion people use Facebook.
The top 10 most visited websites in the world in 2022 are shown below.
Google.com
Google is the most visited website in the world. On average, the search engine receives 90.1 billion visitors per month. This shouldn’t come as a surprise because Google is the biggest and most popular search engine in the world.
Since going live in 1997, the search engine has indexed more than 150 trillion (yep, trillion) web pages. The parent company of Google, Alphabet, which was created by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the creators of the Google search engine, owns and runs Google.com.
Youtube.com
The second most popular website in the world is youtube Around 35 billion people visit the website that hosts the vast majority of videos on the internet each month on average.
More than 5 billion videos have been hosted on YouTube so far, and on average, 500 hours of new content are added to the platform each day. Since 2006, Google/Alphabet has controlled YouTube, which has been available online since 2005.
Therefore, the two most visited websites in the world today are both owned by Alphabet.
Facebook.com
In the list of the Top 10 most visited websites worldwide, Facebook, the most widely used social networking platform, comes in at number three. Facebook receives an average of 20.3 billion visits every month.
In operation since 2004, the website. It is owned and run by Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook, Inc.), the business Mark Zuckerberg created and is in charge of.
Twitter.com
Twitter is a social media network that allows for microblogging and has become very popular in recent years. The website is renowned to be the preferred social media site for many international leaders, in addition to being used by regular people.
Despite being primarily used as an app, the Twitter website now receives an average of 7 billion visitors every month, making it among the most visited websites online.
Instagram.com
The secondary social media channel for the Meta Platform is one of the most popular online destinations.
The social networking site Instagram, which focuses on images and videos, is currently expanding even more quickly than Facebook.
Instagram’s website receives about 6.7 billion visits per month despite being mostly utilized as an App.
Baidu.com
The most popular website in the world that is not based in the US is Baidu.com. One may refer to Baidu as the “Chinese Google”.Every month, it generates an average of 5.9 billion visits. Since 2000, search engine website has been accessible online.
Despite the fact that Robin Li, the creator of Baidu, had originally created the idea of a link-analyzing search engine long before Google went live in 1996, In actuality, Google’s search engine is built in part on Li’s idea.
In 2000, Li created his own version of the internet, and since then, Baidu has dominated the Chinese search engine market.
Wikipedia.org
One of the most well-known websites in the world is Wikipedia. The free online encyclopedia manages to get an average of 5.3 billion visitors per month from all around the world.
The Wikimedia Foundation, based in San Francisco, is the only non-profit organization that now owns one of the Top 10 most visited websites in the world, Wikipedia.
Since it first went online in 2001, Wikipedia has had a significant impact on how people search for and discover information on a variety of topics.
Yandex.ru
As the most widely used search engine and primary news aggregator on the Russian-speaking internet, Yandex is referred to as the “Russian Google” or, perhaps more appropriately, the “Russian Yahoo”.
In general, Yandex receives around 4.1 billion visits every month.
Yaho.com
One of the founders in the development of the Internet is known as Yahoo. It was one of the most well-known websites on the early mainstream internet when it was initially launched in 1995.
With over 3.8 billion monthly visits, Yahoo, a search engine and news aggregator continue to rank among the most popular websites in the world despite its declining popularity.
WhatsApp.com
One of the most popular websites in the world is represented by the most widely used mobile app in the world.
Around 3.2 billion people use the WhatsApp website each month, which is also owned by Meta Platforms.