List of most popular websites

The following websites are listed as one of the 100 most popular worldwide according to Alexa Internet or SimilarWeb as of September 4, 2016.

Ranking measures

Alexa rank

Alexa ranks websites based on a combined measure of page views and unique site users. Alexa creates a list of most popular websites based on this ranking time-averaged over three-month periods.^[1] Only the site's highest-level domain is recorded, aggregating any subdomains.^[1]

SimilarWeb rank

SimilarWeb ranks websites based on a panel of millions of Internet users, International/US internet service providers, direct measurement of web traffic from data from thousands of websites and web crawlers scanning public websites.^[2]

List of websites

Site	Domain	Alexa top 100 websites (As of September 4, 2016)[3]	SimilarWeb top 100 websites (As of September 4, 2016)[4]	Type	Principal country
Google	google.com	1	2	Internet services and products	U.S.
YouTube	youtube.com	2	3	Video sharing	U.S.
Facebook	facebook.com	3	1	Social network	U.S.
Baidu	baidu.com	4	16	Search engine	China
Yahoo!	yahoo.com	5	5	Portal and media	U.S.
Amazon	amazon.com	6	10	E-commerce and cloud computing	U.S.
Wikipedia	wikipedia.org	7	7	Encyclopedia	U.S.
Tencent QQ	qq.com	8	41	Portal	China
Google India	google.co.in	9	14	Search engine	India
Twitter	twitter.com	10	8	Social network	U.S.
Windows Live	live.com	11	9	Email, web services and software suite	U.S.
Taobao	taobao.com	12	50	Online shopping	China
Google Japan	google.co.jp	13	21	Search engine	Japan
Bing	bing.com	14	36	Search engine	U.S.
Instagram	instagram.com	15	6	Photo sharing and social media	U.S.
Sina Weibo	weibo.com	16	79	Social network	China
Sina Corp	sina.com.cn	17	110	Portal and instant messaging	China
LinkedIn	linkedin.com	18	42	Professional Social network	U.S.
Yahoo! Japan	yahoo.co.jp	19	28	Portal	Japan
MSN	msn.com	20	27	Portal	U.S.
VK	vk.com	21	4	Social network	Russia
Google Germany	google.de	22	20	Search engine	Germany
Yandex	yandex.ru	23	12	Search engine	Russia
Hao123	hao123.com	24	180	Web directories	China
Google UK	google.co.uk	25	13	Search engine	UK
Reddit	reddit.com	26	26	social news networking, entertainment	U.S.
eBay	ebay.com	27	24	Online auctions and shopping	U.S.
Google France	google.fr	28	19	Search engine	France
t.co	t.co	29	78	URL shortening for links on Twitter	U.S.
Tmall	tmall.com	30	92	Retail	China
Google Brazil	google.com.br	31	11	Search engine	Brazil
360 Safeguard	360.cn	32	85	Internet security and anti-trojan software	China
Sohu	sohu.com	33	204	Portal	China
Amazon Japan	amazon.co.jp	34	63	E-commerce	Japan
Pinterest	pinterest.com	35	43	Social media	U.S.
Mail.ru	mail.ru	36	18	Portal	Russia
Onclickads	onclickads.net	37	N/A[notes 1]	Online advertising network	U.S.
Netflix	netflix.com	38	32	Streaming TV and movies	U.S.
Google Italy	google.it	39	29	Search engine	Italy
Google Russia	google.ru	40	21	Search engine	Russia
Microsoft	microsoft.com	41	57	Software and technology	U.S.
Google Spain	google.es	42	35	Search engine	Spain
WordPress.com	wordpress.com	43	54	Blogging and social media	U.S.
Guangming Daily	gmw.cn	44	1568	Newspaper	China
Tumblr	tumblr.com	45	34	Social media	U.S.
PayPal	PayPal.com	46	56	Payment system	U.S.
Blogspot	blogspot.com	47	450,370	Blogging	U.S.
Imgur	imgur.com	48	45	Image sharing	U.S.
Stack Overflow	stackoverflow.com	49	157	Question and answer site	U.S.
AliExpress	aliexpress.com	50	46	Online shopping	China
Naver	Naver.com	51	51	Portal	Korea
Odnoklassniki	ok.ru	52	15	Social Networking	Russia
Apple Inc.	apple.com	53	67	Technology and software	U.S.
GitHub	github.com	54	83	Source code hosting service	U.S.
Google Mexico	google.com.mx	55	31	Search Engine	Mexico
China Daily	chinadaily.com.cn	56	1064	Newspaper	China
XVideos	xvideos.com	57	17	Pornography	U.S.
IMDb	imdb.com	58	47	Film, TV show, and video game database	U.S.
Google Korea	google.co.kr	59	177	Search Engine	Korea
Pornhub	pornhub.com	60	22	Pornography	Canada
FC2 Portal	fc2.com	61	82	Portal	Japan
Jingdong Mall	jd.com	62	97	E-commerce	China
Blogger	blogger.com	63	201	Blogging	U.S.
NetEase	163.com	64	96	Portal	China
Google Canada	google.ca	65	33	Search engine	Canada
Google Hong Kong	google.com.hk	66	138	Search engine	Hong Kong
xHamster	xhamster.com	67	37	Pornography	Cyprus
WhatsApp	whatsapp.com	68	60	Instant Messaging	U.S.
Amazon India	amazon.in	69	126	E-commerce	India
Microsoft Office	office.com	70	84	Online Office Suite	U.S.
Google Turkey	google.com.tr	71	25	Search engine	Turkey
Tianya Club	tianya.cn	72	624	Internet forum	China
Google Indonesia	google.co.id	73	48	Search engine	Indonesia
Youku	youku.com	74	181	Video sharing	China
Rakuten	rakuten.co.jp	75	89	E-commerce	Japan
Craigslist	craigslist.org	76	38	Classified advertising	U.S.
Amazon Germany	amazon.de	77	55	E-commerce	Germany
Bonga Cams	bongacams.com	78	225	Pornography	U.S.
Nicovideo	nicovideo.jp	79	99	Video sharing	Japan
Google Poland	google.pl	80	30	Search engine	Poland
Soso.com	soso.com	81	98,882	Search engine	China
Bilibili	bilibili.com	82	175	Video sharing	China
Dropbox	dropbox.com	83	76	File hosting service	U.S.
Xinhua News Agency	xinhuanet.com	84	1757	News	China
Outbrain	outbrain.com	85	176	Content marketing	U.S.
Pixnet	pixnet.net	86	322	Social network, photo sharing, blogging	Taiwan
Alibaba Group	alibaba.com	87	66	E-commerce and Portal	China
Alipay	alipay.com	88	251	Payment system	China
Microsoft Online	microsoftonline.com	89	103	Software as a service	U.S.
Google Taiwan	google.com.tw	90	73	Search engine	Taiwan
Booking.com	booking.com	91	59	Booking engine	Netherlands
Google file storage	googleusercontent.com	92	N/A[notes 1]	File hosting service	U.S.
Google Australia	google.com.au	93	44	Search Engine	Australia
PopAds	popads.net	94	N/A[notes 1]	Pop-up advertising	Costa Rica
CNTV	cntv.cn	95	3997	Television	China
Zhihu	zhihu.com	96	208	Question and answer site	China
Amazon UK	amazon.co.uk	97	58	E-commerce	UK
Diply	diply.com	98	458	Entertainment	Canada
Cốc Cốc	coccoc.com	99	342	Search engine and web browser	Vietnam
CNN	cnn.com	100	94	News	U.S.
BBC	bbc.co.uk	101	70	News	U.K.
Twitch	twitch.tv	102	80	Livestreams	U.S.
Wikia	wikia.com	103	68	Wikis	U.S.
Google Thailand	google.co.th	111	52	Search engine	Thailand
Google Argentina	google.com.ar	112	49	Search engine	Argentina
Go.com	go.com	118	90	Disney Portal	U.S.
Google Netherlands	google.nl	119	61	Search engine	Netherlands
eBay UK	ebay.co.uk	127	65	E-commerce	U.K.
KickassTorrents	kat.cr	137	77	Torrents	Costa Rica
XNXX	xnxx.com	139	39	Pornography	Poland[5]
Grupo Globo	globo.com	155	62	Search engine	Brazil
Google Ukraine	google.com.ua	163	71	Search engine	Ukraine
Universo Online	uol.com.br	167	64	Portal	Brazil
Avito	avito.ru	170	98	E-commerce	Russia
Google Colombia	google.com.co	182	75	Search engine	Colombia
RedTube	redtube.com	190	86	Pornography	U.S.
Google Vietnam	google.com.vn	209	53	Search engine	Vietnam
Google Philippines	google.com.ph	214	72	Search engine	Philippines
DoubleClick	doubleclick.net	234	69	Ad serving	U.S.
Onet.pl	onet.pl	261	91	Portal	Poland
Google Ad Services	googleadservices.com	1319	40	Advertising	U.S.
AccuWeather	accuweather.com	331	81	Weather forecasting	U.S.
Google Web Light	googleweblight.com	30447	74	Webpage transcoder for slow connections	U.S.
Yahoo Answers	answers.yahoo.com	N/A[notes 2]	87	Question and answer site	U.S.

References

1. "How are Alexa's traffic rankings determined?". Alexa Internet. Retrieved November 14, 2014.
2. "Compare Websites Traffic with SimilarWeb Analytics Tool". SimilarWeb. Retrieved December 5, 2014.
3. "Alexa Top 500 Global Sites". Alexa Internet. Retrieved September 4, 2016.
4. "Top Sites Jul 2016 All Traffic". SimilarWeb. Retrieved September 4, 2016.
5. Woods, Ben (March 3, 2016). "The (almost) invisible men and women behind the world's largest porn sites". The Next Web. Retrieved September 4, 2014.

Notes

1. No SimilarWeb rating
2. Alexa does not index subdomains, so it has no ranking for Yahoo Answers.