The 19 Most Popular Sites On The Web (Right Now), Ranked By Alexa

Alexa, a web information and tracking company, keeps a running tally of the top 500 sites on the web by calculating a domain's daily visitors and pageviews over the past three months. Using their most current rankings, we've compiled a list of the 19 most popular websites and included important metrics also tracked by Alexa, such as incoming links and global reach.

The data retrieved from Alexa's "largest web crawl" corresponds with a recent Pew Internet research study which found that search is still the most popular online activity. Pew's report indicates that 92 percent of American adults have used search engines, and Alexa's most current rankings show that four of the top ten most-visited sites in the world are indeed search engines.

A comparison of Alexa's current site rankings to its April 2009 list reveals websites that have come and gone. For example, Myspace, which used to be the 9th most popular site on the web has fallen all the way to 90th. Go.com, which survived the infamous "web portal" heyday, has gone from 13th on the April 2009 rankings to the 50th spot it has today.

The most significant categorical shift in Alexa's site rankings is that international domains are much more prevalent. China now has four websites in the top 20. Japan, India, Germany, and Russia all have at least one website in the top 25. As Internet access continues to become more readily available around the world, Alexa's site rankings will evolve to reflect the global nature of the web.

Alexa's top 19 sites closely resemble 2011 data from Google's analysis of the most-visited sites on the web. While Google's list excludes some Google-owned sites, both Google and Alexa have left adult websites off their most-popular catalogs. Check out Alexa's list of the 19 most-visited sites (below), then see how it compares to Google's list (here).

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Global rank: 19 China rank: 5 Reach: 3.96% of global internet users Sites linking in: 6,004 Visit google.com.hk Source: Alexa

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Global rank: 19
China rank: 5

Reach: 3.96% of global internet users
Sites linking in: 6,004

Visit google.com.hk

Source: Alexa

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[Gup]

09:53 AM on 08/19/2011

OK, how about somebody does this again and takes out the obviously most popular asiatic and western sites. In fact....lets drop down to say #2000 and start from there.

[hossrocks42]

11:05 AM on 08/18/2011

i was expecting huffington post to say that they were #1...

[Garudastan]

10:40 AM on 08/28/2011

AOL is first, HP is second

[rainkitty]

04:21 AM on 08/18/2011

Animal Abuse - I Will Remember You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBFk2ZTeKUk&feature=share

http://www.pet-abuse.com/

http://www.aldf.org/

"Man is the cruelest animal." - Friedrich Nietzsche

[cincinnati]

02:39 AM on 08/18/2011

At least # 3 youtube allows rational discussion of
how complex that day was ten years ago....on
some sites, not mentioning any names, you
can be censored or worse.....

So seven [...I mean, seven cute kittens....
yup, that's it, not that other thing....]....falls like cards and we are supposed
to not question that.....when over 1,000 engineers
do ?

[cincinnati]

02:34 AM on 08/18/2011

Isn't the web great ?

We can be diverted, get lost in time with
cute kitten's instead of worry about
Neocon's plotting another
" Pearl Harbor" or crashing
Wall St. so they can pick up
the pieces [ really cheap ! ]

But I do like cute kittens and puppies....

[DocSyracuse]

11:26 PM on 08/17/2011

Boring.

[ceez]

05:55 PM on 08/17/2011

this should be the 15 most popular search engines on the web.

[theandreaxoxo]

02:50 AM on 08/17/2011

Haha I really thought this list would be comprised solely of porn....

[TRhett]

07:37 PM on 08/17/2011

I'm sure they exclude porn, or it would be . . .

[Djay0252]

11:38 AM on 08/19/2011

There are probably too many of them to give any one porn site a most popular status. It's all about money and nothing about the moral decay it causes.

[DellStreakHacks]

02:03 AM on 08/17/2011

China and google dominate. Funny Bing is not on that list. http://www.convert-youtube-to-mp3.com should be on that list too. LOL

[nbart71]

05:22 PM on 08/16/2011

Where's the LOLCATZ?

[Lahonda]

08:07 PM on 08/17/2011

Yes... Ceiling Cat is dismayed.

[TheSarge]

12:54 PM on 08/16/2011

Now the real list... XXX cheeleaders, haveanaffair etc etc lol

[frug]

09:57 AM on 08/16/2011

Love my blogs!

[americanalien]

05:49 AM on 08/16/2011

Google is my favorite. The internet is synonymous with Google to me. I use it for everything.

[StrawHat]

12:20 AM on 08/16/2011

I love my Google. Don't mess with my Google. It's a VERB, y'all.

[femmyror]

08:42 PM on 08/15/2011

Damn, I thought there would be cats here.

[Greenblue]

12:58 PM on 08/18/2011

LMAO!!!! Me too! That was the only reason I clicked on all of 'em!
....and not one kitteh! D: