Top Websites from the Top Resources Online

There are many lists of “top websites,” but we’ve learned most of them.   However, we   haven’t ever put together a blog post of where to find all of them or even place a list together here in a single blog post.   As a result, here in June 2020, we thought we would share what we know.   Without further adieu, here you go:

Top Most Trafficked Sites in the World**

1. Google.com – 81.5 billion monthly visitors
2. Youtube.com – 33.38 billion
3. Facebook.com – 26.36 billion
4. Baidu.com – 6.22 billion
5. Wikipedia.org – 5.78 billion
6. Twitter.com – 5.40 billion
7. Instagram – 4.43 billion
8. UCnews.in – 3.85 billion
9. Yahoo.com – 3.53 billion
10. Netflix.co – 2.97 billion

PLUS at least 10 More POPULAR TOP 10 Website Lists…

**Sum of all visits (non-unique) per month analyzed by SimilarWeb.com

Top Websites in the World – Pageviews

1. Google.com
2. YouTube.com
3. Tmall.com
4. Facebook.com
5. Qq.com
6. Baidu.com
7. Sohu.com
8. Login.tmall.com
9. Taobao.com
10. 360.cn

Source

Comscore’s Top Multi-Platform Online Properties (USA)

1. Google Sites – 259,592,000 unique visitors
2. Microsoft Sites ~226 mill
3. Facebook ~222 mill
4. Verizon (aka Yahoo+) ~215 mill
5. Amazon sites ~ 208 mill
6. WarnerMedia ~200 mill
7. Comcast NBCUniversal ~192 mill
8. CBS Interactive ~176 mill
9. Apple Inc ~170 mill
10. Hearst** ~167 mill

***Hearst properties include ~17 newspapers including the Houston Chronicle, ~25 popular magazine publications including Cosmopolitan and Car and Driver, ~27 TV stations, multiple Cable Channels & stakes in franchises including A&E and ESPN (stake), Business Media, Interactive Media & other properties

Top 10 Organically Friendly Websites on the Internet*

1. Wikipedia.org – 3 billion users/mo in organic search engine traffic
2. Youtube.com – 1.1 billion users
3. Amazon.com – 994.2 million users
4. Google.com – 670.8 million users
5. Facebook.com – 552 million users
6. IMDB.com – 399 million users
7. Pinterest.com – 376.8 million users
8. Pornhub.com – 307.5 million users
9. Fandom.com – 267.1 million users
10. Merriam-Webster.com – 260 million users

*This is an automated list generated by SEMRush.   They rank it by the “Traffic driven to a given domain via Google’s top 100 organic search results.”

Top Most Visited Websites in the US***

#	Domain	Monthly traffic
1	youtube.com	1,625,928,544
2	en.wikipedia.org	1,032,257,682
3	twitter.com	535,672,329
4	facebook.com	512,517,207
5	amazon.com	492,468,801
6	yelp.com	189,284,057
7	reddit.com	184,283,420
8	imdb.com	168,686,113
9	fandom.com	168,358,254
10	pinterest.com	160,008,934

***Ahrefs.com

The Moz Top 500 Websites – Domain Authority

1. Google.com
2. YouTube.com
3. Apple.com
4. Docs.google.com
5. Microsoft.com
6. Blogger.com
7. Play.google.com
8. Support.google.com
9. Linkedin.com
10. Cloudflare.com

These websites are judged by domain authority which is a metric that identifies a “trust factor” that google measures to help “rank” websites.   The metric is also calculated by one the best SEO resources online: Moz.com

Top Websites by Organic Rank (June 1, 2020)^

1. Wikipedia.org – 17.21 billion in organic traffic
2. Google.com – 7.41 bill
3. YouTube.com – 6.68 bill
4. Twitter.com – 5.92 bill
5. Facebook.com – 4.44 bill
6. Amazon.com – 2.78 bill
7. IMDB.com – 2.20 bill
8. Merriam-Webster.com – 1.86 bill
9. Apple.com – 1.67 bill
10. Dictionary.com 1.45 bill

^Rankranger provided this great list

StatCounter’s Top Social Media Websites – May 2020

1. Facebook – 72.03%
2. Pinterest – 13.47%
3. Twitter – 6.22%
4. YouTube – 5.58%
5. Instagram – 1.49%
6. Tumblr – 0.5%

StatCounter’s Top Social Media Websites Worldwide – Desktop

1. Facebook – 41.34%
2. Pinterest – 24.77%
3. YouTube – 13.32%
4. Twitter – 12.35%
5. Tumblr – 3.54%
6. Reddit – 2.82%

StatCounter’s Top Social Media Websites – Mobile

1. Facebook – 75.8%
2. Pinterest – 11.72%
3. Twitter – 5.59%
4. YouTube – 4.76%
5. Instagram – 1.64%
6. Tumblr – 0.14%

StatCounter’s Top Social Media Websites – Tablet

1. Facebook – 66%
2. Pinterest – 25.07%
3. Twitter – 4.2%
4. YouTube – 3.54%
5. Tumblr – 0.55%
6. Instagram – 0.28%

GTmetrix’s Top 1000 Websites List – Top 10

1. Facebook
2. Yahoo
3. Live.com
4. Wikipedia
5. MSN
6. Microsoft
7. Blogspot
8. Baidu
9. QQ
10. Mozilla

This list was identified as:

Here you’ll find GTmetrix reports for the  Top 1,000 sites on the internet  according to Google, updated weekly with full history.

*  Google did not list google.com and youtube.com in their Top 1,000 list; they are included at the bottom of our table. Also, a few of the sites failed to analyze, so it’s really the top 975. We’re working on it!

Note that this list was made for Google’s Ad Planner service, but the list has been discontinued.

Turns out this list IS outdated.   Supposedly, there’s a site called wirefresh that posts info by Lee J. on May 28, 2010 identifying this came from “Ad Planner” as highlighted in GTMetrix’s information.   The chinese sites ont he list though did mislead us a tad.   Nevertheless, this gives us good historical context.   So, this list has changed significantly in 10 years!

And here’s a nice little video showing how the websites have changed in rankings and visibility from the mid 1990s to last year: