Visualizing the Top 100 Websites in the World

What’s driving the traffic to these Mega Portals

With the explosive growth in the online population over recent years, we see more people relying on virtual resources for their everyday needs from online shopping, e-learning, searching for information, communicating and a whole lot more. The websites of companies in these areas have seen explosive growth in their traffic numbers concurrently.

Today we are going to look at the Top 100 of these websites with the data collected from SimilarWeb as the internet population of the world crosses 4.4 billion. You might notice the absence of huge mobile platforms Snapchat & WeChat since they serve their clientele mainly through their Apps.

The Top 100 websites featured in the infographic below generated a total of 206 billion visits in June 2019 alone. Claiming a spot in this coveted list, a website needed to have around 350 million visits in any single month. Let’s comb the list a little further to analyze the information presented in detail.

➯ General Trend — Search Engines were by far the runaway winners in the list with Google (United States), Baidu (China) & Yandex (Russia) featuring at Numbers 1, 4 and 11 respectively. No wonder why “Just Google it” comes up in our daily conversations so often. Video streaming…