On the Internet, the website Live Stats estimates that there are currently more than 1.2 billion of websites online… That’s a staggering number! But most of the web traffic is monopolized by a handful of sites.
The infographic below details the top 100 websites that generate the most traffic. It's worth noting, however, that this infographic is based solely on US traffic (which is, nonetheless, highly representative of the global web). The statistics used to compile this study come from the leading web ranking service: Alexa.
For example, Byothe.fr is ranked in the top 500 websites by Alexa worldwide and reaches the top 000 French sites.
In this image, the size of the circles determines the decile to which each site belongs, and the color determines its category.
To zoom in, the top 10 is represented (without any major surprises) by:
- YouTube
- Amazon
- Yahoo
- Wikipedia
- eBay
- Netflix
In terms of categories, the most influential sites are in:
- News (14 sites out of 100)
- social networks (12)
- web and file hosting sites (11)
- retail and e-commerce (9)
- company websites (9)
- streaming sites (7)
- bank sites (6)
- ...
In short, if you take a quick look at this top 100, you will realize that most of these sites are part of your daily life (even if it is American data)... but it is also an opportunity to discover new ones!
So here are the 100 sites that are making the rain and the good weather on the Internet (click on the image to open it in large):
Google is far ahead I think!!