The Internet has continued to grow exponentially ever since it was launched. Popular websites including Google and Facebook have reported constant increase in traffic and user-base month on month.  There are several services that monitor internet traffic to identify websites that receive the most number of visitors.  I have put together a list of the 10 most visited websites on the Internet.

Main Sources:

• Google’s DoubleClick Ad Planner
• Alexa

1. Google.com

Category: Search Engine
Unique Visitors: 1 Billion
Page Views: More than 20 billion search queries per month however total page views is not declared by Google
Has Advertising: Yes

Net Worth: $5.5 Billion

In May 2011, Google Sites became the first web property to surpass 1 billion unique visitors globally. In the past year, Google Sites has seen its audience grow 8% to eclipse the 1 billion threshold.

2. Facebook.com

Category: Social Networks
Unique Visitors: Over 850 Million
Page Views: 1,000,000,000,000 (1 Trillion)
Has Advertising: Yes

Net Worth: $4.8 Billion

Facebook, the largest social network, has a staggering 800 million plus user-base and is second only to Google in global internet traffic. In addition to building your network, marketing on Facebook can be very effective for promoting your business.

3. Youtube.com

Category: Online Video
Unique Visitors: 800,000,000
Page Views: 100,000,000,000
Has Advertising: Yes

Net Worth: $3.4 Billion

YouTube is the leading video sharing website. You can also advertise on YouTube or earn money from YouTube ads displayed on your videos.

4. Yahoo.com

Category: Web Portals
Unique Visitors: 590,000,000
Page Views: 77,000,000,000
Has Advertising: Yes

Net Worth: $2.7 Billion

Although the popularity and market share of Yahoo! has faded somewhat in the last ten years, Yahoo.com continues to be one of the most visited sites in the world. In addition to the search engine, an array of products and services are accessed by users via the parent Yahoo.com portal. From July 2009, Yahoo! Searches are powered by Bing following a deal between Microsoft and Yahoo.

5. Bing.Com (Formerly Live.com)

Category: Search Engines
Unique Visitors: 490,000,000
Page Views: 84,000,000,000

Has Advertising: Yes

Bing  was formerly Live Search and MSN Search. Since its release in 2009, Bing has gained popularity fast and today offers several features such as Video and interact maps in addition to its popular search service.

6. Msn.com

Category: Web Portals
Unique Visitors: 440,000,000
Page Views: 20,000,000,000
Has Advertising: Yes

MSN is Microsoft’s portal, offering MSNBC News, sports, MSN Money, games, videos, entertainment & celebrity gossip, weather, shopping and more. Search on MSN.Com is powered by Bing.

7. Wikipedia.org

Category: Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
Unique Visitors: 410,000,000
Page Views: 6,000,000,000
Has Advertising: No

Net Worth: $1.5 Billion

Wikipedia is a free, collaboratively edited and multilingual Internet encyclopedia supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its 22 million articles have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world.

8. Blogspot.com

Category: Blogging Resources & Services
Unique Visitors: 340,000,000
Page Views: 4,900,000,000
Has Advertising: Yes

Net Worth: $1.4 Billion

Blogger is an easy to use blog-publishing service by Google that lets you create a blog for free. It is very popular in the blogging community. The site was initially created by Pyra Labs which was bought by Google in 2003.

9. Baidu.com

Category: Search Engines
Unique Visitors: 300,000,000
Page Views: 110,000,000,000
Has Advertising: Yes

Net Worth: $1.1 Billion

Baidu is a Chinese web services company that operates the number one search engine in China and is the most visited Chinese web site.

10. Microsoft.com

Category: Software
Unique Visitors: 250,000,000
Page Views: 2,500,000,000
Has Advertising: Yes

Microsoft there main mission and values are to help people and businesses across the world.

Conclusion:

The list above identifies the top 10 most visited websites in the world as per data collected from Google Ad Planner and Alexa. The order of the sites change from time to time but the most of these sites feature consistently in top most visited sites.  Increase in the global internet reach and penetration of broadband are some of the factors that have fueled the rapid increase in internet traffic.