Technology
Ranked: The Top 50 Most Visited Websites in the World
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Ranked: The Top 50 Most Visited Websites in the World
Estimates vary, but there are upwards of two billion websites in existence in 2023.
If we were to rank all of these websites according to their traffic numbers, we would see a classic power law distribution. At the low end, the vast majority of these websites would be inactive, receiving little to no traffic. On the upper end of the ranking though, a handful of websites receive the lion’s share of internet traffic.
This visualization, using data from SimilarWeb, takes a look at the 50 websites that currently sit at the top of the ranking.
Which Websites Get the Most Traffic?
Topping the list of most-visited websites in the world is, of course, Google. With over 3.5 billion searches per day, Google has cemented its position as the go-to source for 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. As well, YouTube has the second highest duration-of-visit numbers in this top 50 ranking. (First place goes to the Chinese video sharing website, Bilibili.)
But Google and YouTube aren’t the only big players on the internet. Other websites in the top 50 ranking include social media giants Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok. In particular, TikTok has seen a surge in popularity in recent years and is now one of the most popular social media platforms in the world.
Here’s the full top 50 ranking table form:
Rank | Website | Monthly Traffic | Category | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|
#1 | google.com | 85.1B | Search Engines | 🇺🇸 U.S. |
#2 | youtube.com | 33.0B | Streaming & Online TV | 🇺🇸 U.S. |
#3 | facebook.com | 17.8B | Social Media Networks | 🇺🇸 U.S. |
#4 | twitter.com | 6.8B | Social Media Networks | 🇺🇸 U.S. |
#5 | instagram.com | 6.1B | Social Media Networks | 🇺🇸 U.S. |
#6 | baidu.com | 5.0B | Search Engines | 🇨🇳 China |
#7 | wikipedia.org | 4.8B | Dictionaries & Encyclopedias | 🇺🇸 U.S. |
#8 | yandex.ru | 3.4B | Search Engines | 🇷🇺 Russia |
#9 | yahoo.com | 3.3B | News & Media Publishers | 🇺🇸 U.S. |
#10 | whatsapp.com | 2.9B | Social Media Networks | 🇺🇸 U.S. |
#11 | xvideo.com | 2.8B | Adult | 🇨🇿 Czechia |
#12 | amazon.com | 2.6B | Marketplace | 🇺🇸 U.S. |
#13 | pornhub.com | 2.5B | Adult | 🇨🇦 Canada |
#14 | xnxx.com | 2.3B | Adult | 🇫🇷 France |
#15 | live.com | 2.1B | 🇺🇸 U.S. | |
#16 | yahoo.co.jp | 2.1B | News & Media Publishers | 🇯🇵 Japan |
#17 | netflix.com | 2.0B | Streaming & Online TV | 🇺🇸 U.S. |
#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 | 🇺🇸 U.S. |
#21 | office.com | 1.6B | Prog. & Developer Software | 🇺🇸 U.S. |
#22 | linkedin.com | 1.6B | Social Media Networks | 🇺🇸 U.S. |
#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 | |
#29 | naver.com | 1.2B | News & Media Publishers | 🇰🇷 S. Korea |
#30 | bing.com | 1.2B | Search Engines | 🇺🇸 U.S. |
#31 | microsoftonline.com | 1.1B | Prog. & Developer Software | 🇺🇸 U.S. |
#32 | discord.com | 1.1B | Social Media Networks | 🇺🇸 U.S. |
#33 | twitch.tv | 1.1B | Gaming & Accessories | 🇺🇸 U.S. |
#34 | bilibili.com | 1.0B | Animations & Comics | 🇨🇳 China |
#35 | pinterest.com | 1.0B | Social Media Networks | 🇺🇸 U.S. |
#36 | zoom.us | 985.9M | Computers Electronics & Tech | 🇺🇸 U.S. |
#37 | weather.com | 985.7M | Weather | 🇺🇸 U.S. |
#38 | qq.com | 907.1M | News & Media Publishers | 🇨🇳 China |
#39 | microsoft.com | 902.3M | Prog. & Developer Software | 🇺🇸 U.S. |
#40 | msn.com | 870.8M | News & Media Publishers | 🇺🇸 U.S. |
#41 | globo.com | 840.1M | News & Media Publishers | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
#42 | duckduckgo.com | 839.0M | Search Engines | 🇺🇸 U.S. |
#43 | roblox.com | 795.7M | Gaming & Accessories | 🇺🇸 U.S. |
#44 | quora.com | 775.9M | Dictionaries & Encyclopedias | 🇺🇸 U.S. |
#45 | news.yahoo.co.jp | 749.1M | News & Media Publishers | 🇯🇵 Japan |
#46 | ebay.com | 728.0M | Marketplace | 🇺🇸 U.S. |
#47 | aajtak.in | 724.1M | News & Media Publishers | 🇮🇳 India |
#48 | nytimes.com | 702.2M | News & Media Publishers | 🇺🇸 U.S. |
#49 | realsrv.com | 688.0M | Adult | 🇺🇸 U.S. |
#50 | cnn.com | 684.9M | News & Media Publishers | 🇺🇸 U.S. |
Notable companies that have fallen out of the top 50 since our last version of this visualization are Walmart and PayPal. Notable entrants into the top 50 are Samsung and the New York Times.
The Geography of the 50 Most-Visited Websites
The United States is still home base for many of the world’s biggest websites, taking up 30 spots on this ranking. Of these 30 websites, half are operated by Big Tech companies such as Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Netflix.
Russia, China, Japan, and South Korea round out the top five.
Things get interesting in the “other” category, which includes six websites. Two spots are taken up by Aaj Tak and Globo, which are large media publications in India and Brazil, respectively.
The remaining four websites—XVideos, PornHub, XHamster, and XNXX—specialize in adult content, and are located in a variety of countries. These are often referred to as “tube sites” since they are built on the YouTube model.
Realsrv, the only adult-oriented site in the top 50 located in the U.S., is interesting to delve into as well, since it’s far from a household name. The website essentially supports advertising efforts by redirecting users away from the content they were viewing over to another page (generally premium adult content). This is one of the key ways that adult websites earn revenue.
Where does this data come from?
Source: SimilarWeb
Notes: Websites listed include “all meaningful subdomains”, and categories in the graphic follow SimilarWeb’s categorization system. This is the third version of this graphic. As with previous versions, we aim to use data from November for the sake of consistency and to avoid seasonal fluctuations in traffic. One important detail to point out is that website traffic does not include app traffic, which is why popular platforms like WeChat don’t appear in this ranking.
Technology
Which Companies Make Up the “Magnificent Seven” Stocks?
FAANG is dead… meet the ‘Magnificent Seven’ stocks that now make up over 25% of the S&P 500.

Which Companies Make Up the “Magnificent Seven” Stocks?
In 2013 CNBC analyst Jim Cramer popularized “FANG,” comprised of Facebook (now Meta), Amazon, Netflix, and Google (now Alphabet), as a shorthand for the best performing technology stocks on the market. Apple, added in 2017, made it FAANG.
However, over the last year a new moniker given by Bank of America analyst Michael Hartnett highlights the most valuable and popularly-owned companies on the American stock market: the “Magnificent Seven” stocks.
We visualize the Magnificent Seven’s market capitalization and 5-year stock performance as of November 2023 using data from Google Finance and CompaniesMarketCap.
The Magnificent Seven Stocks by Market Cap and 5-Year Return
The Magnificent Seven stocks are megacap companies focused and capitalizing on tech growth trends including AI, cloud computing, and cutting-edge hardware and software.
Four of the five FAANG stocks retain their place amongst the Magnificent Seven, with newcomers Nvidia, Tesla, and Microsoft joining the group. Following a poor 2022 performance and having more difficulty capitalizing on tech trends, Netflix is the sole FAANG company not included.
Here’s a look at the companies ranked by their market capitalization on November 6, 2023, alongside their 5-year stock performance:
Rank | Company | Market Cap | 5 Year Performance |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Apple | $2.8 trillion | +250% |
2 | Microsoft | $2.6 trillion | +224% |
3 | Alphabet | $1.6 trillion | +141% |
4 | Amazon | $1.4 trillion | +63% |
5 | Nvidia | $1.1 trillion | +783% |
6 | Meta | $811 billion | +118% |
7 | Tesla | $690 billion | +829% |
The Magnificent Seven make up more than one-quarter of the S&P 500 and more than half of the Nasdaq 100.
Meanwhile, five of the seven are part of the rare trillion dollar club, with Nvidia being the most recent entry.
A common theme among the Magnificent Seven is their ability to collect vast amounts of customer data, create cutting-edge hardware and software, as well as harness the power of AI.
However, if Netflix gets back on track—recently announcing its new ad-supported membership tier has 15 million subscribers—we could soon see a “Magnificent Eight.”
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