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Most Visited Websites In The World (September 2023)

by Josh Howarth
September 6, 2023

This is a detailed list of the most visited websites globally. We used data from Semrush to find accurate website traffic estimates. Semrush is a leading digital marketing platform.

All traffic data comes from August 2023 traffic estimates. Please be aware we also removed explicit websites from our rankings.

What Is The #1 Most Visited Website?

As of September 2023, the most visited website in the world is Google. The next most popular websites are YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and Wikipedia.

It's worth noting that the total number of website visits differs from the number of unique visitors. In a world with 8 billion people, 95.5 billion monthly visits can happen because certain people visit the site multiple times daily.

The only other site that competes with Google in total visits worldwide is YouTube, at 83 billion. Notably, both websites are owned and operated by Alphabet Inc., highlighting their dominance in the space.

Top 100 Most Visited Websites Globally

Ranking Website Monthly Traffic
1 google.com 95,500,000,000
2 youtube.com

83,000,000,000

3 facebook.com 11,500,000,000
4 twitter.com 7.800,000,000
5 wikipedia.org 6,600,000,000
6 instagram.com 5,600,000,000
7 reddit.com 4,900,000,000
8 asurascans.com 3,200,000,000
9 tiktok.com 3,000,000,000
10 fandom.com 2,900,000,000
=11 amazon.com 2,800,000,000
=11 weather.com 2,800,000,000
13 lectortmo.com 2,700,000,000
=14 yahoo.com 2,500,000,000
=14 tsyndicate.com 2,500,000,000
16 yandex.ru 2,200,000,000
17 manganato.com 2,100,000,000
18 bit.ly 2,000,000,000
=19 whatsapp.com 1,800,000,000
=19 duckduckgo.com 1,800,000,000
21 openai.com 1,700,000,000
=22 twitch.tv 1,600,000,000
=22 bing.com 1,600,000,000
24 doubleclick.net 1,500,000,000
=25 live.com 1,400,000,000
=25 linkedin.com 1,400,000,000
=27 vk.com 1,300,000,000
=27 microsoft.com 1,300,000,000
29 quora.com 1,200,000,000
30 netflix.com 1,100,000,000
31 imdb.com 1,000,000,000
32 taboola.com  960,400,000 
33 discord.com 890,100,000
34 aliexpress.com 804,200,000
35 github.com 795,200,000
36 office.com 770,600,000
37 pinterest.com 736,500,000
38 zoom.us 724,800,000
39 paypal.com 717,200,000
40 roblox.com 707,200,000
41 spotify.com 690,400,000
42 mail.ru 643,600,000
43 bbc.com 634,100,000
44 indeed.com 625,400,000
45 ebay.com 624,200,000
46 cnn.com 611,800,000
47 naver.com 610,700,000
48 fc2.com 548,800,000
49 ampproject.org 543,200,000
50 samsung.com 536,100,000
51 wordpress.com 530,400,000
52 globo.com 526,800,000
53 booking.com 515,300,000
54 accuweather.com 499,400,000
55 patreon.com 471,400,000
56 canva.com 448,400,000
57 msn.com 420,700,000
58 imgur.com 416,500,000
59 walmart.com 403,600,000
60 sharepoint.com 398,000,000
61 linktr.ee 380,600,000
62 adobe.com 377,300,000
63 stackoverflow.com 353,600,000
64 tumblr.com 344,600,000
65 foxnews.com 328,800,000
66 espn.com 297,600,000
67 telegram.org 289,000,000
68 cricbuzz.com 272,900,000
69 nih.gov 258,500,000
70 baidu.com 255,600,000
71 ok.ru 234,500,000
72 disneyplus.com 209,600,000
73 deepl.com 209,500,000
74 medium.com 204,300,000
75 homedepot.com 194,200,000
76 speedtest.net 192,400,000
77 bilibili.com 185,7000,000
78 investing.com 181,600,000
79 rottentomatoes.com 170,300,000
80 shopify.com 167,000,000
81 playstation.com 156,800,000
82 craigslist.org 154,200,000
83 outbrain.com 152,400,000
=84 messenger.com 150,500,000
=84 capitalone.com 150,500,000
86 target.com 146,100,000
87 nintendo.com 143,800,000
88 turbopages.org 136,100,000
89 okta.com 132,700,000
90 snapchat.com 130,400,000
91 yelp.com 130,300,000
92 wiktionary.org 124,800,000
93 detik.com 124,700,000
94 cambridge.org 116,200,000
95 merriam-webster.com 112,500,000
96 coinmarketcap.com 107,300,000
97 ea.com 104,000,000
98 instructure.com 101,600,000
99 qq.com 100,500,000
100 figma.com 74,500,000

As you can see from this list, many of the most popular websites globally are huge brands like Google, YouTube, Amazon, and Facebook. People spend most of their time online on social media platforms, search engines, and news or media websites.

These brands are not necessarily new. In fact, many have been around for decades. So we decided to see which of these top websites are experiencing an upward trend right now.

1. Canva

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5-year search growth: 1,150%

Search growth status: Exploding

Monthly traffic (Global): 448,400,000

Description: Canva is a graphic design platform with drag-and-drop capabilities to empower non-designers. The platform has pre-made templates for resumes, logos, banners, social media posts, and much more, so users can create designs faster. Canva has experienced explosive growth, serving 125 million customers today.

2. Figma

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5-year search growth: 1,100%

Search growth status: Exploding

Monthly traffic (Global): 74,500,000

Description: Figma is a collaborative interface design application recently acquired by Adobe for $20 billion. This easy-to-use drag-and-drop design tool bridges the gap between product and design teams.

3. DeepL Translator

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5-year search growth: 913%

Search growth status: Exploding

Monthly traffic (Global): 209,500,000

Description: DeepL is an artificial neural machine translation service. This network service can translate documents, files, images, and text into 31 different languages. The algorithm is advanced because it uses artificial intelligence to replicate human intelligence to generate more accurate translations than Google Translate.

4. Fandom

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5-year search growth: 310%

Search growth status: Regular

Monthly traffic (Global): 2,900,000,000

Description: Fandom is a fan-hosted wiki and the largest entertainment and gaming website. Over 350 million users can learn more about their favorite shows, movies, games, and comic books in dedicated communities. Fandom hosts over 250k communities and 40 million pages of content.

5. Telegram

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5-year search growth: 405%

Search growth status: Exploding

Monthly traffic (Global): 289,000,000

Description: Telegram is a cloud-based instant messaging app that allows users to send messages and share media with individuals and groups. It boasts over 500 million monthly active users and has grown because of its advanced end-to-end encryption and focus on user privacy.

6. Okta

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5-year search growth: 128%

Search growth status: Exploding

Monthly traffic (Global): 132,700,000

Description: Okta is a cloud-based identity management company that helps organizations secure their network and applications. Over 17,00 customers using Okta can link all company apps, logins, and devices to improve company security.

7. WhatsApp

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5-year search growth: 157%

Search growth status: Exploding

Monthly traffic (Global): 1,800,000,000

Description: WhatsApp is a free instant messaging app with VoIP support for users. The app is owned by Meta and ranks as one of the most popular messaging and social media apps in the world. WhatsApp currently has over 2 billion monthly active users

8. Bilibili

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5-year search growth: 1,038%

Search growth status: Exploding

Monthly traffic (Global): 185,7000,000

Description: Bilibili is an online entertainment platform in China. It's most commonly used for live video streaming and online gaming. Currently, the platform serves over 326 million users each month.

9. Yandex

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5-year search growth: 790%

Search growth status: Exploding

Monthly traffic (Global): 2,200,000,000

Description: Yandex is Russia's most popular search engine. The company provides many of the same features Google does, like maps, translation, navigation, weather, etc. Yandex owned 62.6 percent of the search market in Russia in 2022. 

10. Shopify

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5-year search growth: 133%

Search growth status: Exploding

Monthly traffic (Global): 167,000,000

Description: Shopify is a leading e-commerce platform that enables entrepreneurs and businesses to create and manage their online stores. The platform provides drag-and-drop web design, hosting, and payment processing. Shopify has 2.1 million daily active users and over 218 million people have bought something from a Shopify store.

Conclusion

That caps off our in-depth list of the 100 most visited websites worldwide.

A prevalent pattern among the most popular websites is their relation to search engines (Google, DuckDuckGo, Bing, etc.), social media (Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok), and news or media (CNN, Fox News, etc.).

Keep checking back here each month to find updated traffic data and new trending websites.