List of most popular websites

The following websites are the 100 most popular worldwide according to Alexa Internet as of March 23, 2016, and those websites' corresponding rankings on SimilarWeb as of April 4, 2016.

Ranking measures

Alexa rank

Alexa ranks websites based on a combined measure of page views and unique site users. Alexa creates a list of "top websites" based on this ranking time-averaged over three-month periods.^[1] Only the site's highest-level domain is recorded, aggregating any subdomains.^[1]

SimilarWeb rank

SimilarWeb ranks websites based on a panel of millions of Internet users, international and US internet service providers, direct measurement of web traffic from data from thousands of websites and web crawlers scanning public websites.^[2] Only the top 50 websites are listed without a paying account.

List of websites

Site	Domain	Alexa top 100 websites (As of March 23, 2016)[3]	SimilarWeb top 100 websites (As of April 4, 2016)[4]	Type	Principal country
Google	google.com	1	2	Search engine	U.S.
YouTube	youtube.com	2	3	Video sharing	U.S.
Facebook	facebook.com	3	1	Social network	U.S.
Baidu	baidu.com	4	16	Search engine	China
Yahoo!	yahoo.com	5	5	Portal and media	U.S.
Amazon	amazon.com	6	14	E-commerce and cloud computing	U.S.
Wikipedia	wikipedia.org	7	9	Encyclopedia	U.S.
Tencent QQ	qq.com	8	42	Portal	China
Google India	google.co.in	9	17	Search engine	India
Twitter	twitter.com	10	11	Social network	U.S.
Windows Live	live.com	11	6	Email, web services and software suite	U.S.
Taobao	taobao.com	12	48	Online shopping	China
MSN	msn.com	13	22	Portal	U.S.
Sina Corp	sina.com.cn	14		Portal and instant messaging	China
Yahoo! Japan	yahoo.co.jp	15	36	Portal	Japan
Google Japan	google.co.jp	16	19	Search engine	Japan
LinkedIn	linkedin.com	17	30	Professional Social network	U.S.
Sina Weibo	weibo.com	18	56	Social network	China
Bing	bing.com	19	32	Search engine	U.S.
Yandex	yandex.ru	20	10	Search engine	Russia
VK	vk.com	21	4	Social network	Russia
Hao123	hao123.com	22		Web directories	China
Instagram	instagram.com	23	8	Photo sharing and social media	U.S.
eBay	ebay.com	24	31	Online auctions and shopping	U.S.
Google Germany	google.de	25	20	Search engine	Germany
Amazon Japan	amazon.co.jp	26	77	E-commerce	Japan
Mail.Ru	mail.ru	27	13	Portal, instant messaging and email	Russia
360 Safeguard	360.cn	28	82	Internet security and anti-trojan software	China
Tmall	tmall.com	29	94	Retail	China
Google UK	google.co.uk	30	15	Search engine	UK
Pinterest	pinterest.com	31	38	Social media	U.S.
Google Russia	google.ru	32	21	Search engine	Russia
Reddit	reddit.com	33	26	social news networking and entertainment	U.S.
Google Brazil	google.com.br	34	12	Search engine	Brazil
t.co	t.co	35	50	URL shortening for links on Twitter	U.S.
Netflix	netflix.com	36	27	Streaming TV and movies	U.S.
Google France	google.fr	37	18	Search engine	France
Sohu	sohu.com	38		Portal	China
PayPal	paypal.com	39	57	Payment system	U.S.
Microsoft	microsoft.com	40	44	Software and technology	U.S.
WordPress.com	wordpress.com	41	43	Blogging and social media	U.S.
Google Italy	google.it	42	35	Search engine	Italy
Blogspot	blogspot.com	44		Blogging	U.S.
Tumblr	tumblr.com	45	28	Social media	U.S.
Odnoklassniki	ok.ru	46	7	Social Networking	Russia
Onclickads	onclickads.net	47		Online advertising network	U.S.
Guangming Daily	gmw.cn	48		Newspaper	China
Imgur	imgur.com	49	45	Image sharing	U.S.
Stack Overflow	stackoverflow.com	50		Question and answer site	U.S.
AliExpress	aliexpress.com	51	41	Online shopping	China
XVideos	xvideos.com	52	23	Pornography	U.S.
Apple Inc.	apple.com	53	61	Technology and software	U.S.
Google Mexico	google.com.mx	54	34	Search Engine	Mexico
FC2 Portal	fc2.com	55	85	Portal	Japan
Internet Movie Database	imdb.com	56	46	Database of films, TV shows, and video games	U.S.
Google Hong Kong	google.com.hk	57		Search engine	Hong Kong
Amazon Germany	amazon.de	58	69	E-commerce	Germany
Ask.com	ask.com	59	51	Search Engine	U.S.
Google Turkey	google.com.tr	60	25	Search engine	Turkey
Google Canada	google.ca	61	33	Search engine	Canada
Microsoft Office	office.com	62	65	Online Office Suite	U.S.
Alibaba Group	alibaba.com	63	53	E-commerce and portal	China
Rakuten	rakuten.co.jp	64		E-commerce	Japan
Tianya Club	tianya.cn	65		Internet forum	China
Pornhub	pornhub.com	66	37	Pornography	U.S.
Google Indonesia	google.co.id	67		Search engine	Indonesia
GitHub	github.com	68	68	Source code hosting service	U.S.
Diply	diply.com	69		Entertainment	Canada
Craigslist	craigslist.org	70	49	Classified advertising	U.S.
Soso.com	soso.com	71		Search engine	China
Go.com	go.com	72	88	Portal for Disney media	U.S.
Xinhua News Agency	xinhuanet.com	73		News	China
Nicovideo	nicovideo.jp	74	99	Video sharing	Japan
Pixnet	pixnet.net	75		Social network, photo sharing and blogging	Taiwan
Amazon UK	amazon.co.uk	76	78	E-commerce	UK
China Daily	chinadaily.com.cn	77		Newspaper	China
Bonga Cams	bongacams.com	78		Pornography	U.S.
Google file storage	googleusercontent.com	79		File hosting service	U.S.
Outbrain	outbrain.com	80		Content marketing	U.S.
Amazon India	amazon.in	81		E-commerce	India
Blogger	blogger.com	82		Blogging	U.S.
Haosou	haosou.com	83		Search Engine	China
CNN	cnn.com	84		News	U.S.
Jingdong Mall	jd.com	85	97	E-commerce	China
KickassTorrents	kat.cr	86	47	Directory for torrents	U.S.
Google Poland	google.pl	87	24	Search engine	Poland
Google Australia	google.com.au	88	58	Search Engine	Australia
Naver	Naver.com	89	75	Portal	Korea
Dropbox	dropbox.com	90	62	File hosting service	U.S.
Cốc Cốc	coccoc.com	91		Search engine and web browser	Vietnam
Qihoo 360	360.com	92		Internet Security	China
xHamster	xhamster.com	94	39	Pornography	U.S.
Adobe	adobe.com	95	91	Software Company	U.S.
Flipkart	flipkart.com	96		Retail	India
Microsoft Online	microsoftonline.com	97		Software as a service	U.S.
WhatsApp	whatsapp.com	98	59	Instant Messaging	U.S.
New York Times	nytimes.com	99		Newspaper	U.S.
Chase	chase.com	100		Banking	U.S.

References

1. "How are Alexa’s traffic rankings determined?". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 14 Nov 2014.
2. "Compare Websites Traffic with SimilarWeb Analytics Tool". SimilarWeb. Retrieved 5 Dec 2014.
3. "Alexa Top 500 Global Sites". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
4. "SimilarWeb Website Rankings - Top 50 Sites". SimilarWeb. Retrieved 4 April 2016.