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The world’s most-visited websites

By Sabir Shah
December 14, 2023

LAHORE: With data released by Semrush, an eminent global platform used for keyword search, competitive analysis, site audits, backlink tracking and comprehensive online visibility insights etc, the world’s 15 most-visited websites include huge brands like Google, YouTube, Amazon, Tiktok, Twitter (now X), Instagram, Whatsapp, Yahoo and Facebook etc.

Owned by the Boston-based Messrs Semrush Holdings, an American public company having more than 1,000 employees working in offices located at Barcelona, Belgrade, Berlin, Prague, Warsaw, Amsterdam, Dallas and Philadelphia etc, over 10 million users have till date tried Semrush in 143 countries for keyword search, competitive analysis, site audits, backlink tracking, and comprehensive online visibility insights.

Phone apps for Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, among other social networks on a smartphone in Chennai, India, on March 22, 2018. . — AFP File
Phone apps for Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, among other social networks on a smartphone in Chennai, India, on March 22, 2018. . — AFP File

The 15 most-visited websites with monthly traffic figures in brackets include:

Google.com (180,300,000,000), YouTube.com (112,900,000,000), Facebook.com (18,900,000,000), Wikipedia.org (8,500,000,000), Twitter (8,400,000,000), Instagram.com (7,400,000,000), Reddit.com (7,200,000,000), Duckduckgo.com (4,700,000,000), Yahoo.com (4,300,000,000), Bing.com (4,100,000,000), Amazon.com (3,900,000,000), Tiktok.com (3,800,000,000), Weather.com (3,300,000,000), fandom.com (3,200,000,000) and Whatsapp.com (3,100,000,000.

Meanwhile, Live.com is the 20th most website with monthly traffic of 1,800,000,000, Linkedin.com and Microsoft.com are at 21st position with 1,700,000,000 traffic figures each, Netflix and Cnn.com are at Number 26 with 1,400,000,000 users each, BBC.com is at Number 34 (988,300,000), AliExpress as at Number 36 (941,000,000), ESPN.com is at Number 37 (920,100,000), pinterest.com is at Number 38 (908,700,000), FoxNews.com is Number 39 (835,300,000), Paypal.com is Number 43 (760,600,000), Spotify.com is Number 46 (745,800,000), Msn.com is Number 47 (730,400,000), Cricbuzz.com is Number 49 (717,100,000), Samsung.com is Number 55 (618,800,000) and Booking.com is Number 59 (478,000,000).