23 February 2014

What Are The Top 5 Most Visited Websites?

By Yusuf Abdi


The world wide web presents an enormous amount of opportunities when browsing, but there are always trends and routines. To be the most popular site these days is quite the status and not easy to achieve. You are probably thinking about the popular sites you know and the ones that you frequent that may not be quite as popular. Societal trends are continuously changing when it comes to online activity, and here are the top five most visited websites in today's world.

1. Google: Google's simplistic search engine setup is not fooling anyone. They have risen to the top of the online world, buying out other sites and offering services tying into their customer's initiatives regarding online entrepreneurship, email, advertising and tons more.

3. Facebook gets 900,000,000 monthly visitors and is definitely the most popular social media platform, even though several studies say that Facebook is becoming less popular. Facebook keeps introducing new features to keep users interested and is expected to stay among the most popular websites for the years to come.

Yahoo! is the fourth most popular website worldwide. The search engine is a popular homepage for Internet users thanks to its many features. Yahoo! allows users to check their emails, read general news or news on many different special interest topics, play games or see trending topics on the Internet among many other things.

5. Amazon is fifth with 500,000,000 monthly users. Amazon is definitely the most popular online shopping site and constantly looks for new ways to add more products to their selection. Their Kindle e-reader and tablet is one of the latest additions to the huge selection of products.

This list of the five most visited websites is based on the number of unique monthly users. Other popular websites include eBay, Twitter, Wikipedia or MSN among many others.




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