Everyone of us who is somehow connected with Internet must have a website which one cannot avoid browsing at least once a day. It depends what age you come in, what field you are related with, there is always a favorite website for each one of us. I will be sharing few of the website which are among top of the ranks for their traffic and can be considered as most visited or popular websites.
I will be sharing the data taken from Alexa’s web stats, which updates regularly but their ranking for sites changes after three month of time period. They uses different criteria to calculate the rankings which includes, website’s global reach and number of pageviews. The main source of Alexa for calculating traffic is by using of the “Alexa Toolbar”.
Lets see the top few of the top websites as far as the popularity and visits are concern.
#17 – MSN.com
Global rank: 17
U.S. rank: 14
Last year’s rank: 9
Global reach: 5.882%
Global pageviews: 0.1278%
Sites linking in: 418,039
#16 – Sina.com.cn
Global rank: 15
Chinese Rank: 4
Last year’s rank: 16
Global reach: 4.931%
Global pageviews: 0.28853%
Sites linking in: 204,498
#15 – Yahoo.co.jp
Global rank: 16
Japanese rank: 1
Last year’s rank: 12
Global reach: 3.705%
Global pageviews: 0.6453%
Sites linking in: 144,604
#14 – Taobao.com
Global rank: 14
Chinese rank: 3
Last year’s rank: 17
Global reach: 4.177%
Global pageviews: 0.7545%
Sites linking in: 191,151
#13 – LinkedIn
Global rank: 12
U.S. rank: 12
Last year’s rank: 13
Global reach: 5.253%
Global pageviews: 0.45885%
Sites linking in: 1,247,810
#12 – Google.co.in
Global rank: 13
Indian rank: 1
Last year’s rank: 14
Global reach: 4.768%
Global pageviews: 0.59051%
Sites linking in: 45,053
#11 – Blogger.com
Global rank: 11
U.S. rank: 11
Last year’s rank: 5
Global reach: 7.042%
Global pageviews: 0.24974%
Sites linking in: 27,721
#10 – Amazon.com
Global rank: 10
U.S. rank: 5
Last year’s rank: 15
Global reach: 5.778%
Global pageviews: 0.59674%
Sites linking in: 1,073,767
#9 – QQ.com
Global rank: 9
Chinese rank: 2
Last year’s rank: 10
Global reach: 7.506%
Global pageviews: 0.6388%
Sites linking in: 429,006
#8 – Twitter.com
Global rank: 8
U.S. rank: 9
Last year’s rank: 9
Global reach: 8.983%
Global pageviews: 0.4971%
Sites linking in: 5,746,990
#7 – Live.com
Global rank: 7
U.S. rank: 10
Last year’s rank: 8
Global reach: 10.191%
Global pageviews: 0.6783%
Sites linking in: 151,134
#6 – Wikipedia.org
Global rank: 6
U.S. rank: 6
Last year’s rank: 7
Global reach: 13.644%
Global pageviews: 0.5224%
Sites linking in: 1,934,190
#5 – Baidu.com
Global rank: 5
Chinese rank: 1
Last year’s rank: 6
Global reach: 11.461%
Global pageviews: 1.8525%
Sites linking in: 310,140
#4 – Yahoo.com
Global rank: 4
U.S. rank: 4
Last year’s rank: 4
Global reach: 21.533%
Global pageviews: 1.3239%
Sites linking in: 1,787,700
#3 – YouTube.com
Global rank: 3
U.S. rank: 3
Last year’s rank: 3
Global reach: 32.698%
Global pageviews: 4.0823%
Sites linking in: 3,198,073
#2 – Facebook.com
Global rank: 2
U.S. rank: 2
Last year’s rank: 2
Global reach: 45.094%
Global pageviews: 5.7886%
Sites linking in: 7,047,911
#1 – Google.com
Global rank: 1
U.S. rank: 1
Last year’s rank: 1
Global reach: 48.318%
Global pageviews: 5.3069%
Sites linking in: 4,481,542
I agreed these ranking because everyone knows that google is number 1 website then facebook then youtube but alexa toolbar is totally useless.
you can’t give opinion or you can’t said that your site is highly ranked website if your alexa rank is good.
I have four websites and start analyzing alexa.
i come to this conclusion that if some one open your site through a such browser where alexa toolbar installed, it count ,otherwise it neglect the visitor and only million people installed alexa toolbar in their browser out of billions.
tips to increase alexa rank
1. write more reviews
2.open your website through alexa toolbar installed browser
3. increase the visitor time
you will get good rank soon. Thanks
Agreed. If we talk about Alexa toolbar then i am totally agreed with your point of view. Ranking with Alexa is totally linked with the toolbar installed. I did showed stats from Alexa but i also did some research of those website.
I may not be 100 % right but i am sure these rating will be mostly right. But there is another phenomenon about Alexa. You just cannot rule out the Alexa. It does have some weight-age when we talk about rating sites. Especially for the people associated with businessmen.
For us, like writers or tech people, we know how it works.