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According to Nielssn in 2011 social media represents 22.5% of the time Americans spend online. They spend 9.8% on online gaming, and just 7.6% for email.
On a typical day, 43% of online adults use social networking.

Current list at Quantcast
Top world sites by revenue at Wikipedia
Top 500 Global Sites by traffic - Alexa

Top 15 Most Popular US Websites - eBiz|MBA - April 2015
rnk site Monthly Visitors
1 Google 1,000,000,000
2 YouTube 1,000,000,000
3 facebook 900,000,000
4 Yahoo! 750,000,000
5 Amazon 500,000,000
6 Wikipedia 475,000,000
7 Twitter 290,000,000
8 Bing 285,000,000
9 eBay 285,000,000
10 MSN 280,000,000
11 Microsoft 270,000,000
12 LinkedIn 260,000,000
13 Pinterest 250,000,000
14 Ask 245,000,000
15 WordPress 240,000,000
Others from - Top 500 - Alexa
rnk site
16 Live
17 Blogspot
18 Instagram
19 Reddit
20 Pinterest
21 Apple
22 Gmail
23 IMDB
24 Netflix
25 Craigslist
26 Go.com
27 Pornhub
28 bbc
29 CNN
30 DailyMotion
Sample changes:
Site 2007 2012
www.yahoo.com 1 4
www.google.com 2 1
www.ebay.com 3 19
www.msn.com 4 7
www.wikipedia.org 5 8
microsoft.com 6 9
amazon.com 7 6
cnn.com 8 74
www.myspace.com 9 77
bbc.co.uk 10 47
Site 2007 2012
youtube.com 11 2
www.facebook.com 12 3
twitter 5
craigslist.org 13 23
comcast.net 14 34
live.com 15 10
blogger.com 16 16
blogspot.com 11
wordpress 55 12
vimeo.com 13
answers.com 104 14
ask.com 67 15
2007 List Relative Popularity averaging several of the lists below. Rank varies by source.
(Some numbers are missing because the sites were not relevant. We need to renumber)
Rnk URL Descr
1 www.yahoo.com internet portal, Mail, groups, search, finance, maps, ...
2 www.google.com Search, internet portal, mail, finance, maps, ...
3 www.ebay.com Auction
4 www.msn.com Internet Portal
5 www.wikipedia.org Encyclopedia
6 microsoft.com
7 amazon.com Books, other online buying
8 cnn.com News
9 www.myspace.com Social Networking
10 bbc.co.uk News
11 youtube.com Upload, tag and share your videos
12 www.facebook.com Social Networking - Colleges
13 craigslist.org Classified listings
14 www.comcast.net News
15 www.live.com Search site - Microsoft
16 www.blogger.com Create your own blog
17 www.aol.com internet portal, mail
18 imdb.com The Internet Movie Database
19 go.com News, search, ESPN,
20 mapquest.com Maps
21 nytimes.com News
22 flickr.com Picture galleries available with social networking, chat, groups, and photo ratings
23 digg.com Blog, News Magazine
24 photobucket.com
25 www.paypal.com
26 weather.com
27 www.symantec.com
28 megaupload.com
29 www.hotmail.com
30 www.msnbc.msn.com
31 about.com
32 www.bestbuy.com
34 statcounter.com
35 apple.com
36 passport.com
37 livejournal.com
41 cnet.com
43 reference.com
44 www.circuitcity.com
45 typepad.com
46 passport.net
47 finance.yahoo.com
48 linkedin.com
50 netflix.com
51 foxnews.com
52 orkut.com
53 careerbuilder.com
54 monster.com
55 wordpress.com
Rnk URL Descr
56 earthlink.net
58 match.com
59 target.com
60 usps.com
61 dell.com
62 godaddy.com
63 sportsline.com
64 ups.com
65 adobe.com
66 walmart.com
67 ask.com
69 expedia.com
70 foxsports.com
71 del.icio.us
72 technorati.com
73 newegg.com
74 bellsouth.net
75 ign.com
76 bestbuy.com
77 myway.com
78 imageshack.us
79 deviantart.com
80 pogo.com
81 sourceforge.net
82 download.com
83 tigerdirect.com
84 drudgereport.com
86 stumbleupon.com
87 washingtonpost.com
90 break.com
91 realtor.com
92 orbitz.com
93 gamespot.com
94 istockphoto.com
95 travelocity.com
96 chase.com
97 people.com
98 nba.com
99 zedo.com
101 hp.com
102 googlesyndication.com
103 mlb.com
104 answers.com
105 friendster.com
106 forbes.com
107 broadcaster.com
108 imagevenue.com
109 dailymotion.com
110 usatoday.com
There were two porn sights which would have been number 38 and 40 in the top 100 which are not listed.
Non-English sights e.g. Le Monde (see below) were not listed.

Top Subscription Sites

Top Email Sites

Feb 2007 Yahoo 250 M
AOL ? M
HotMail 228 M
Gmail 51 M

Top Foreign Sites

Foreign
www.bbc.co.uk BBC UK
www.lemonde.fr Le Monde FR
www.clubic.com Cyrealis Internet Network FR
www.planet.nl HN-Plus NL
www.01net.com FR
Service Percent* E-mail 4.8 Weather 3.9 Search 2.9 Sports 2.5 News/politics 2.1 Entertainment 2.1 City Guides/maps 2.1 Games 2.1 Portals 1.4 Business/finance 1.2 * Percent of

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Rankings come from several sources, Alexa, SiteAnalytics @ Compete.com
and Quantcast, so results may be inconsistent. They are only general guidelines.
Download top million from Quantcast.

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last updated 2 Apr 2012