Google retains internet stranglehold

The web giant continues to dominate the internet as the world’s most
visited website, holding onto a near-monopoly of the search engine
market, with 136 billion monthly visits from 6.3 billion individual users

GLOBAL TOP 20 MOST VISITED WEBSITES (monthly visits, billions)

Google
YouTube
Facebook
Wikipedia
Instagram
Reddit
Pornhub
Bing
ChatGPT
X
Yandex
WhatsApp
Amazon
Yahoo
Xvideos
DuckDuckGo
Twitter
MSN
Netflix
TikTok

136.0
72.8
12.7
6.9
6.8
6.0
5.3
5.2
4.8
4.3
4.0
4.0
3.6
3.5
3.5
3.1
2.7
2.6
2.5
2.5

71%
Alphabet’s
share of top
20 monthly
visits

Owned by Alphabet
Owned by Meta

Riding high in 9th place
despite ChatGPT only
launching in 2022

2.7bn hits are still going
to twitter.com after it
was renamed x.com
in 2023

Source: Visual Capitalist, Indulge Data Nov 2024
Picture: Ninian Carter
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