The entire internet is full of websites that billions of people use every single day.
In this post, we’ll explore the websites that dominate the internet. We’ll also share some of their key statistics so you can see what makes them stand out and why they attract so much traffic.
Here are some of the crucial factors contributing to high website traffic:
- All the high-traffic sites appeal to a broader audience
- They’re available in multiple languages
- Almost all of them provide fresh and up-to-date content on current events
- They often use features like AI personalization
Let’s now dive into the top websites in 2025.
Table of Contents
Most Visited Websites In The World (Top 10 List)
Most of the top 10 most visited websites are all social media platforms or search engines. In this section, we have added the top ten sites with the most visitors.
1. Google.com
| Website URL | Niche/Topic | Founded In | Founder(s) |
| Google.com | Search Engine | 4 September 1998 | Larry Page, Sergey Brin |
Google is the most visited website in the world. It is also the biggest search engine, with an estimated market share of 90%. Google focuses on multiple things including search, online advertising, cloud computing, ecommerce, artificial intelligence and more.
Key Stats of Google
- Google processes over 8.5 billion daily searches, more than 100,000 searches every second!
- 63% of Google searches happen on mobile in the U.S.
- Google operates in hundreds of countries and has over 70 offices in 50 countries.
- Most of Google’s $305.63 billion record revenues last year came from advertising.
- 46% of Google searches have local intent.
Stats Sources: Official Google, BloggersPassion
2. YouTube.com
| Website URL | Niche/Topic | Founded In | Founder(s) |
| YouTube | Social media and online video sharing platform | February 14, 2005 | Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim |
YouTube is a popular social media and online video sharing platform with billions of users. It allows people to upload, watch, comment, subscribe and share videos for free. It also has a premium version which allows users to watch videos without ads.
Key Stats of YouTube
- YouTube currently has ~2.50 billion monthly active users. It had only 20 million monthly users initially in 2006.
- YouTube has more than 100 million paying subscribers, including Music and Premium subscribers globally.
- With an estimated 462 million users, India has the largest YouTube audience globally, followed by the United States with 239 million.
Stats Sources: Official YouTube, BloggersPassion
3. Facebook.com
| Website URL | Niche/Topic | Founded In | Founder(s) |
| Social networking service | February 4, 2004 | Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes, Andrew McCollum, Eduardo Saverin |
Facebook is a popular social media platform which was launched by Mark Zuckerberg in 2004. It allows people to connect with friends and family, share photos and videos, and engage with businesses worldwide.
Key Stats of Facebook
- Facebook has 3.07 billion monthly active users (MAU)
- Facebook has 2.1 billion daily active users (DAUs)
- Facebook gets its highest traffic volume on Wednesdays at 9 AM and 3 PM.
- 98.5% of users access Facebook through their mobile phones.
- The platform’s user base is primarily young adults, with 18.1% aged 18-24 and 25.7% aged 25-34. Older demographics are also well-represented, with 18.1% of users aged 35-44, 13.6% aged 45-54, 11% aged 55-64, and 10.6% aged 65 and older.
- Facebook gets 400 new users and over half a million comments every minute!
Stats Sources: Statista, Data Reportal
4. Wikipedia.org
| Website URL | Niche/Topic | Founded In | Founder(s) |
| Wikipedia.org | Free encyclopedia | 15 January 2001 | Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger |
Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia which is written and maintained by anyone who can contribute and edit articles on a wide range of topics. It is currently available in 340 languages and it’s a non-profit organization primarily supported by reader donations.
Key Stats of Wikipedia
- A whopping 20,000+ articles were added to Wikipedia in its first year (i.e. in 2001).
- The English Wikipedia boasts 6.9 million articles and adds an average of 530 new ones daily.
- Wikipedia is edited over twice per second by a global community.
- Wikipedia generated over 7.06 billion visits in December 2024.
- The United States has the most page views (over 1.44 billion views in December 2024).
Stats Sources: Wikipedia, Semrush
5. Instagram.com
| Website URL | Niche/Topic | Founded In | Founder(s) |
| Photo and video sharing social networking service | October 6, 2010 | Kevin Systrom, Mike Krieger |
Instagram is a widely used photo and video sharing social networking service and also one of the most visited websites in the world. It was launched by Kevin Systrom in 2010 and currently owned by Meta (the guys who run Facebook). It allows users to post images, add captions, share videos, etc.
Key Stats of Instagram
- Instagram has 2 billion monthly active users worldwide.
- Instagram is most popular in India with 385.35 million users, followed by the United States (166.15 million), Brazil (133.05 million), Indonesia (99.4 million), and Turkey (58.45 million).
- The average user spends 33.9 minutes per day on the Instagram platform.
- Every day, 726.8 million people watch a staggering 140 billion Reels on Instagram.
Stats Sources: Statista, Backlinko
6. Reddit.com
| Website URL | Niche/Topic | Founded In | Founder(s) |
| Social News | June 23, 2005 | Steve Huffman, Aaron Swartz, Alexis Ohanian |
Redit is a major social news aggregation and social networking forum used by millions of people worldwide. It allows users to post content in various ways including links, text posts, images, and videos. The current market cap of Reddit is currently $10 billion.
Key Stats of Reddit
- Reddit attracts 73.1 million daily visitors and 267.5 million weekly visitors.
- Reddit reported $804.03 million in annual revenue for the year 2023.
- Nearly half of Reddit’s daily active users, or 36.4 million, are based in the US.
- Reddit currently supports over 100,000 active subreddits.
Stats Sources: G2 Learning Hub, Backlinko
7. Yandex.ru
| Website URL | Niche/Topic | Founded In | Founder(s) |
| Yandex.ru | Search Engine | 23 September 1997 | Arkady Volozh, Arkady Borkovsky, Ilya Segalovich |
Yandex Search is a Russian search engine created by the company Yandex. It allows users to find anything including webpages, images, music, and more. Just like other search engines, you can search by text, voice or image.
Key Stats of Yandex
- Yandex’s annual revenue reached 800.13 billion Russian rubles.
- Yandex has a monthly audience of 88.54 million users.
- Yandex dominates the Russian desktop search engine market with a 71% traffic share.
Stats Sources: Statista
8. Bing.com
| Website URL | Niche/Topic | Founded In | Founder(s) |
| Bing | Search Engine | June 3, 2009 | Satya Nadella, Qi Lu |
Bing is the second largest search engine in the world, after Google. Bing has nearly 4% search engine market share worldwide. It is owned and operated by Microsoft and offers services in search, video, image, and map search products.
Key Stats of Bing
- Bing attracts a large audience. More than 500 million unique users visit Bing every month.
- Bing currently has a 17.21% desktop share of the US search engine market.
- Bing is globally accessible, supporting 105 languages and available in 234 countries.
- Approximately 5.6 billion visits occur on Bing each month, resulting in more than 186.6 million searches conducted daily on the platform.
Stats Sources: Semrush, Backlinko
9. ChatGPT.com
| Website URL | Niche/Topic | Founded In | Founder(s) |
| ChatGPT | Chatbot | November 30, 2022 | Sam Altman |
ChatGPT is OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, which became very popular quickly. Just five days after it was launched in November 2022, it already had 1 million users. Within just three months of its launch, it already had 100 million people using it every month.
Key Stats of ChatGPT
- Currently, ChatGPT has over 300 million weekly active users worldwide.
- Most people (73.32%) are DIRECT visitors to the ChatGPT website. Organic search is the next most common traffic source, making up 19.88% of visits.
- ChatGPT’s audience is 56.07% male and 43.93% female. The largest age group of visitors are 25 – 34 year olds (nearly 30%).
- People using ChatGPT spend an average of 13 minutes and 35 seconds on the website each time they visit.
Stats Sources:TechCrunch, Similarweb, Statista
10. X.com (Formerly Twitter)
| Website URL | Niche/Topic | Founded In | Founder(s) |
| X.com | Social networking service | March 21, 2006 | Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, Evan Williams |
X (formerly Twitter) is a major social media platform which allows users to find friends/celebrities, follow latest news, and discuss current events. It was launched Jack Dorsey in 2006 and later acquired by Elon Musk for $44 billion in 2023.
Key Stats of X.com
- X has an estimated 245 million daily active users worldwide.
- The United States has the largest Twitter user base with 108.55 million, followed by Japan with 74.1 million, and India with 30.3 million.
- Elon Musk is the most followed person on X/Twitter with over 213 million followers.
- On X/Twitter, 61.2% of users are male, while 38.8% are female.
Stats Sources: Data Reportal, Mashable
Conclusion
In conclusion, most visited sites in the world are primarily social media networks and search engines. All these sites are often visited by millions of people worldwide to explore new topics, connect with others and create content.
If you can study these websites, you can easily understand user behavior and emerging trends.
So, what are your thoughts on the above list? Have any questions? Let us know in the comments.
FAQs
Here are some of the commonly asked questions about most visited sites.
What are the top 10 most visited websites?
The top 10 most visited sites include Google, YouTube, Facebook, Wikipedia, Instagram, Reddit, Yandex, Bing, ChatGPT, and X.
What is the richest website in the world?
Microsoft is considered the wealthiest website based on its massive revenue and market capitalization of over $3.12 trillion.
Which site is most searched on Google?
Google often ranks as the #1 most searched term, followed by YouTube and Facebook.
Which website is most visited in the USA?
Google is the most visited website in the USA, followed by YouTube and Reddit.
Which website is famous in the world?
Google is the most visited website in the world; it is also the biggest search engine.
