Top 10 Websites on the Internet

1. Google.com

Google.com is ranked #1 in the world according to the three-month Alexa traffic rankings, and the site has been online for more than fourteen years. The site's visitors view 11.2 unique pages each day on average. The site belongs to the “English” category. Compared with internet averages, Google.com's audience tends to be users who browse from school

2. Facebook

Facebook is the second most popular site in the world according to the three-month Alexa traffic rankings. Search engines refer approximately 6% of visits to it. This site has been online since 1997, and the time spent in a typical visit to Facebook is roughly 25 minutes, with 48 seconds spent on each pageview. Relative to the overall population of internet users, this site's audience tends to be users who browse from school and home; they are also disproportionately women. 

3. YouTube

Youtube.com is ranked #3 in the world according to the three-month Alexa traffic rankings. Roughly 20% of visitors to the site come from the US. It has a bounce rate of about 33% (i.e., 33% of visits consist of only one pageview), and YouTube has been online since 2005. The site belongs to the “Video Sharing” category.

4. Yahoo!

Yahoo.com is ranked #4 in the world according to the three-month Alexa traffic rankings. While we estimate that 32% of visitors to the site come from the US, where it is ranked #4, it is also popular in Taiwan, where it is ranked #1. The time spent in a typical visit to the site is about nine minutes, with 42 seconds spent on each pageview. Roughly 32% of visits to the site consist of only one pageview (i.e., are bounces). Yahoo.com's content places it in the “Web Portals” category of sites

5. Baidu.com

Baidu.com is ranked #5 in the world according to the three-month Alexa traffic rankings. The time spent in a typical visit to the site is approximately fourteen minutes, with 34 seconds spent on each pageview. Compared with internet averages, the site appeals more to Asians; its visitors also tend to consist of moderately educated, childless women browsing from work and school who have incomes between $30,000 and $100,000. Baidu.com has been online for more than twelve years.

6. Wikipedia

Wikipedia.org is ranked #6 in the world according to the three-month Alexa traffic rankings. The fraction of visits to the site referred by search engines is about 49%. The site belongs to the “Wikipedia” category. Compared with internet averages, Wikipedia's audience tends to be users who browse from school and work; it also appeals more to childless men under the age of 35 who have postgraduate educations. The site has been online for at least ten years.

7. Blogspot.com

Blogspot.com is the seventh most popular site in the world based on its three-month Alexa traffic rank, and visitors to the site view an average of 4.9 unique pages per day. Visitors to the site spend about six minutes per visit to the site and 47 seconds per pageview. Compared with internet averages, the site appeals more to users who browse from home and school; its visitors also tend to consist of women earning less than $30,000 who have postgraduate educations. While Blogspot.com is ranked #9 in the US, where about 18% of its visitors are located, it is also popular in Indonesia, where it is ranked #5

8. Windows Live (live.com)

There are seven sites with a better three-month global Alexa traffic rank than Live.com. The site has been online for more than sixteen years. Compared with the overall internet population, it appeals more to Hispanics; its audience also tends to consist of both uneducated and highly educated, childless women under the age of 35 who browse from home and school. The time spent in a typical visit to this site is about eight minutes, with 34 seconds spent on each pageview, and visitors to Live.com view an average of 6.2 unique pages per day.

9 Twitter.com

Twitter is the ninth most popular site in the world according to the three-month Alexa traffic rankings. The site has been online for more than eleven years. It has a bounce rate of roughly 38% (i.e., 38% of visits consist of only one pageview). Twitter's visitors view an average of 3.4 unique pages per day. Visitors to the site spend roughly seven minutes per visit to the site and 54 seconds per pageview.

10. QQ.com

China's largest and most used Internet service portal owned by Tencent, Inc founded in November, 1998. Presently, Tencent is aiming its operations at the strategic goal of providing users with a "one-stop online life service". Tencent's Internet platforms QQ, QQ.com, QQ Games, and PaiPai.com have brought together China's largest Internet community. Tencent's communications and information-sharing services include QQ.com, QQ Instant Messenger, QQ Mail, and search engine SOSO. Linked up with heavily used features such as forums, chat rooms, and QQ Groups, Tencent's Qzone has grown into China's largest personal Internet space. Mobile phone users can take advantage of a number of value-added wireless services. Tencent's PaiPai.com is a C2C on-line shopping platform that seamlessly integrates into Tencent's other community platforms.As of June 30th, 2009, the number of registered QQ Instant Messenger users has reached 990.0 million. Active users numbered at 448.0 million. Peak concurrent users have reached 61.30 million. QQ Games platform counted about 6.2 million users simultaneously on-line. QQ.com has become China's most visited Internet portal website. PaiPai.com has also become China's second largest Internet shopping platform.

11. Amazon.com

Amazon.com seeks to be Earth's most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices. Site has numerous personalization features and services including one-click buying, extensive customer and editorial product reviews, gift registries, gift certificates, wish lists, restaurant and movie listings, travel, and photo processing.

Amazon.com's three-month global Alexa traffic rank is 11. The site is based in the US. Relative to the overall population of internet users, the site's users are disproportionately Caucasian, and they are disproportionately moderately educated, childless women earning over $30,000 who browse from home. Visitors to this site spend approximately 39 seconds on each pageview and a total of ten minutes on the site during each visit. Amazon.com has a bounce rate of approximately 26% (i.e., 26% of visits consist of only one pageview)