What are the most visited websites in the world (2022)

With the passage of time, more people around the world access the Internet whether for entertainment, work or study or any other activity.

As it has been doing in recent years, the report of We Are Social In collaboration with hoot-suite makes a fairly complete review of how Internet traffic behaved during the previous year, whether in reference to websites, applications, streaming services, purposes for which Internet users remained connected, etc.

To continue our journey discovering the most relevant data on the habits of Internet users on the planet, the most recent update of the report has once again shared with us the most visited websites in the world, those that among the thousands of thousands of pages manage to capture the majority of Internet users globally. In addition to other interesting data that reveal the behavior of the Internet in the last year.

Types of most visited websites in the world

According to data from the Digital 2022 report, during 2021 95.6% of Internet users worldwide connected to chat and instant messaging platformswhile 95.2% were on social networks, 83.6% visited web browsers or private portals, 58.1% were on shopping-related sites, and 56.9% entered map and location services.

Google maintains its leadership among the most visited websites in the world

According to the ranking included in this year’s report, based on data from SimilarWeb between January and December 2021, Google remains the most visited website on the planet as of January 2022.

The Top 10 of the most popular internet pages are made up of:

1. Google com
2. youtube.com
3. facebook.com
4. twitter.com
5. instagram.com
6. .com
7. Wikipedia.org
8. yahoo.com
9. .ru
10. XVideos.com

This is the top 20 of the most popular internet pages in full:

If you compare this top to the 2021 report, not much has changed: the Top 5 of last year remains (Google, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram), with the most popular web search engine on the planet maintaining its leadership as the most used platform among all, and it is that for millions of Internet users Google represents finding the needle in the internet haystack. Unlike the 2021 report, from 6 to 10 you can see how Wikipedia falls from sixth to seventh place, exchanging that position with Baidu (the Chinese Google) which now rises to that sixth position.

Another important change is the rise of (the Russian Google) to ninth place, making the popular adult content site, XVideos, is relegated to tenth place. For its part, yahoo remains in position 8. Websites with porn content have a presence in the lower part of the top 20 of the most visited pages on the internet thanks to XNXX and Pornhub.

This is the ranking of the previous year:

Social networks lead the top of the most visited websites in the world

The data provided by this report indicate that, on average, Internet users spent 11 minutes and 30 seconds browsing Google until January 2022a little more than 10 minutes and 58 seconds recorded on average until January 2021.

Secondly, YoutubeGoogle’s huge video platform, maintains the attention of its users an average of 21 minutes and 42 seconds, just a few seconds more than 21 minutes and 10 seconds registered for January 2021.

For its part, Facebook lowers its average time of use of its platform a little compared to last year, going from having an average visit of 10 minutes and 26 seconds in January 2021 to 10 minutes and 15 seconds in January 2022.

Twitter is located in fourth place, the same position as in the previous period, with an average time of visits of 10 minutes and 44 seconds (just 5 seconds less than in the 2021 report).

In the meantime, Instagram recorded an average of 7 minutes and 41 seconds visit time (4 seconds less than in the 2021 report) .

The most searched terms on Google in 2021

Apart from the most visited pages in the world, this 2022 report has also indicated that “Google” and “Facebook” remain the most searched terms in 2021. “YouTube” also remains in third place compared to the previous year.

However, there are quite notable changes: for example, the terms “video”, “coronavirus” and “corona” disappeared from the top giving way to movements like “you” rising from fifth to fourth place, “weather” now ranks 5th after being 8th last year, “translate” rises from 10th to 6th place, “WhatsApp” is ranked 7th after ranking 13th in 2021 report, “news” drops from 7th to 8th place , while «» takes ninth place after not even appearing in the top 20 of the previous ranking and «Amazon» closes the Top 10 of 2022, dropping one spot compared to ninth place in the list published in the 2021 report .

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