Top 10 Most Visited Social Media Platform in the World

If you spend any time online, it’s likely you’re familiar with some of the world’s most visited websites. On today’s internet, a handful of giants have unmatched dominance.

Top Three Websites (Monthly visits):

• Google: 92.5 billion
• YouTube: 34.6 billion
• Facebook: 25.5 billion

Together, the top three websites rake in 152 billion visits monthly, outpacing the next 47 websites combined. What’s more, as the pandemic transformed everything from the way we work, learn, communicate, and shop—a majority of these activities migrated online.

In this new visualization, we look at the most visited websites around the world, drawing data from Similar web (as of November 2020).  There were some adults websites and application in these top 10 list but not added here because of some policies and conditions. Here are some best platforms to advertise with better advertisement design.

Yahoo –

Yahoo is an American web service provider. It is headquartered in Sunny wale, California and owned by Verizon Media, which acquired it in 2017 for $4.48 billion.  It currently provides a Web portals, Search engine Yahoo! Search, and related services, including Yahoo! mail, Yahoo!News, Yahoo! Finance, Fantasy sports and its advertising platform, Verizon media native

Yahoo! was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 2, 1995.  Yahoo was one of the pioneers of the early Internet era in the 1990’s.  In 2000, it was the most popular website.

Instagram –

Instagram (commonly abbreviated to IG or Insta) is an American photo and video sharing social network created by Kevin Systrome and Mike Krieger.  In April 2012, Facebook acquired the service for approximately US$1 billion in cash and stock. The app allows users to upload media that can be edited with Filters and organized by hashtags and geographical tagging. Posts can be shared publicly or with pre-approved followers. Users can browse other users’ content by tags and locations and view trending content. Users can like photos and follow other users to add their content to a personal feed.

Instagram was originally distinguished by only allowing content to be framed in a square (1:1) aspect ratio with 640 pixels to match the display width of the iPhone at the time. In 2015, these restrictions were eased with an increase to 1080 pixels. The service also added messaging features, the ability to include multiple images or videos in a single post, and a Stories feature—similar to its main opposition Snapchat—which allows users to post photos and videos to a sequential feed, with each post accessible by others for 24 hours each. As of January 2019, the Stories feature is used by 500 million users daily.

Twitter –

Twitter is an American micro blogging and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as “tweets”.  Registered users can post, like and retweet tweets, but unregistered users can only read them. Users access Twitter through its website interface or its mobile-device application software(“app”), though the service could also be accessed via SMS before April 2020. Twitter, Inc. is based in San Francisco, California and has more than 25 offices around the world.  Tweets were originally restricted to 140 characters, but was doubled to 280 for non-CJK Languages in November 2017.  Audio and video tweets remain limited to 140 seconds for most accounts.

Amazon –

Amazon.com, Inc. is an American multinational technical company based in Seattle,Washington, which focuses on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. It is one of the Big five companies in the U.S. information technology industry, along with Google, Apple, Microsoft and Facebook.  The company has been referred to as “one of the most influential economic and cultural forces in the world”, as well as the world’s most valuable brand.

Jeff Bezos founded Amazon from his garage in Bellevue, Washington, on July 5, 1994. It started as an online marketplace for books but expanded to sell electronics, software, video games, apparel, furniture, food, toys, and jewelry. In 2015, Amazon surpassed Walmart as the most valuable retailer in the United States by market capitalization. In 2017, Amazon acquired Whole Food Market for US$13.4 billion, which substantially increased its footprint as a physical retailer.  In 2018, its two-day delivery service, Amazon Prime, surpassed 100 million subscribers worldwide.

WhatsApp –

WhatsApp Messenger, or simply WhatsApp, is an American freeware, cross platform centralized messaging and voice over IP service owned by Facebook, Inc.  It allows users to send text messages and voice messages, make voice and video calls, and share images, documents, user locations, and other content. WhatsApp’s client application runs on mobile devices but is also accessible from desktop computers, as long as the user’s mobile device remains connected to the Internet while they use the desktop app.  In January 2018, WhatsApp released a standalone business app targeted at small business owners, called WhatsApp Business, to allow companies to communicate with customers who use the standard WhatsApp client.

The client application was created by WhatsApp Inc. of Mountain View, California, which was acquired by Facebook in February 2014 for approximately US$19.3 billion. It became the world’s most popular messaging application by 2015, and has over 2 billion users worldwide as of February 2020. It has become the primary means of internet communication in multiple locations, including Latin America, the Indian subcontinent, and large parts of Europe and Africa.

Wikipedia –

It is a free, multilingual Online Encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteer contribution through open collaboration, using a wiki-based editing system. Wikipedia is the largest and most-read reference work in history, and is consistently one of the 15 most-popular websites as ranked by Alexa; as of 2021, it ranked as the 13th most-popular.  The project carries no advertisement and is hosted by the wiki media foundation, an American non profit organisation funded mainly through donations.

Wikipedia was launched on January 15, 2001, by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger; Sanger coined its name as a portmanteau of “wiki” and “encyclopedia”.  Initially available only in English, versions in other languages were quickly developed. The English Wikipedia, with 6.3 million articles as of May 2021, is the largest of the 321 language edition. Combined, Wikipedia’s editions comprise more than 56 million articles, and attract more than 17 million edits and more than 1.7 billion unique visitors per month.

Baidu –

Baidu, meaning “a hundred times” or “a hundred degrees”, anglicized is a Chinese multinational technology company, specializing in Internet-related services and products and artificial intelligence  (AI), headquartered in Beijing’s Haidan District.  It is one of the largest AI and Internet companies in the world. The holding company of the group is incorporated in the Cayman island. Baidu was incorporated in January 2000 by Robin Li and Eric Xu. The Baidu search engine is currently the forth largest website in the Alexa Internet rankings. Baidu has origins in RankDex, an earlier search engine developed by Robin Li in 1996, before he founded Baidu in 2000.

Facebook-

Facebook (stylized as facebook) is an American online social media and social networking service based in Men lo park, California, and a flagship service of the namesake company Facebook,Inc. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg.

The founders of Facebook initially limited membership to Harvard students. Membership was expanded to Columbia, Stanford, and Yale before being expanded to the rest of the Ivy League, MIT, NYU, Boston University, then various other universities in the US and Canada, and lastly high school students. Since 2006, anyone who claims to be at least 13 years old has been allowed to become a registered user of Facebook, though this may vary depending on local laws. The name comes from the face-book directories often given to American university students.

YouTube –

YouTube is an online video platform owned by Google. In total, users watch more than one billion hours of YouTube videos each day, and hundreds of hours of video content are uploaded to YouTube servers every minute.

YouTube provides several ways to watch videos, including the website, the mobile apps, and permitting other websites to embed them. Available content includes music video, video clips, short and documentary films, audio recordings and vlogs. Most content is generated by individual, but media corporations also publish videos. Besides watching and uploading,registered users can comment on videos, rate them, create playlists, and subscribe to other users.

Founded in 2005, YouTube was acquired the following year by Google for US$1.65 billion. It has become one of the company’s most lucrative subsidiaries earning $19.8 billion in 2020. YouTube and selected creators earn advertising revenue from Google’s Ad sense program. The vast majority of videos are free to view, but some require a music or premium subscription.

Google –

Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertisement, a search engine, cloud software, and hardware. It is considered one of the five Big Tech companies along with Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft.

Google was founded in September 1998 by Larry Paige and Sergey while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University in California.  Together they own about 14% of its shares and control 56% of the stockholder voting power through super-voting stock. Google was incorporated in California on September 4, 1998. Google was then reincorporated in Delaware on October 22, 2002. Sundar Pichai was appointed CEO of Google, replacing Larry Page, who became the CEO of Alphabet. In 2021, the Alphabet Union Workers was founded, mainly composed of Google employees.