The top 20 websites in the world
According to the data from the famous market research institution ComScore, the technology blog Business Insider lists the top 20 websites in the world, including Sina 19th, Sohu 16th, Taobao 13th, Baidu 9th, Tencent 7th, and 5 Chinese companies are on the list.
No. 20: Amazon (Amazon.com)
Number of independent visitors: 163 million
Introduction: Amazon.com is the most important online shopping website, including electrical appliances, clothing, sports goods and even food.
Growth process: Amazon initially only hired several employees to carry out the packaging and delivery of books. But then it grew into an all-encompassing shopping website, with musical instruments and Kindle Fire tablets on the website.
No. 19: Sina (Sina.com.cn)
Number of independent visitors: 169 million
Introduction: Sina.com is one of China's media and UGC mobile portals.
Growth process: In the early 21st century, Sina was regarded as "China's Yahoo". Sina Weibo, which was launched in 2009, currently has more than 400 million users.
No. 18: WordPress (Wordpress.com)
Number of independent visitors: 170.9 million
Introduction: Wordpress.com is a blog platform.
Growth process: WordPress is a very easy-to-use blog and web publishing tool, attracting a large number of users. As an open source tool, WordPress does not need to pay external authorization fees, which is one of its advantages over other similar websites. In 2004, after Movable Type changed its licensing agreement, many people turned to the WordPress platform.
No. 17: Apple (Apple.com)
Number of independent visitors: 171.7 million
Introduction: Apple's official website.
Growth process: Apple's online store is placed on Apple.com, and the website also provides support services for all Apple products. Apple.com is also the default homepage of Safari browser, and countless Apple devices are pre-installed with Safari browser.
No. 16: Sohu (Sohu.com)
Number of independent visitors: 175.8 million
Introduction: Chinese portal and search engine.
Growth process: Founded in 1997, Sohu is China's first search engine company. Sohu then developed into a large portal website, which also provides game portals, real estate and other content.
No. 15: Bing (Bing.com)
Number of independent visitors: 184 million
Introduction: Search engine website under Microsoft .
Growth process: Microsoft has invested heavily in advertising for Bing and has spent a lot of effort to improve its ease of use by adding social sidebar functions and improving algorithms. Microsoft will also pay a certain fee to the websites linked to Bing.
No. 14: Twitter (Twitter.com)
Number of independent visitors: 189.8 million
Introduction: Real-time communication platform
Growth process: Since its launch in 2009, Twitter has become a must-visit website for people to understand global news. News organizations, politicians and experts from all walks of life have opened accounts on Twitter, making it a very important source of information.
No. 13: Taobao (Taobao.com)
Number of independent visitors: 207 million
Introduction: Chinese e-commerce platform, merchants with various products such as clothing, jewelry, food, and electrical appliances.
Growth process: Similar to eBay and Amazon, Taobao is also one of the world's largest e-commerce platforms. Taobao’s parent company Alibaba announced in 2003 that there is no need to pay the website to open a store on Taobao, which helped Taobao become a large shopping search platform.
No. 12: Ask(Ask.com)
Number of independent visitors: 218.4 million
Introduction: Search engine.
Growth process: Ask.com was originally named AskJeeves, and was founded in the late 1990s. After its parent company IAC was acquired by About.com, a large amount of new content was added to the website. The current Ask.com can basically be regarded as an Google search after the OEM.
No. 11: Blogger (Blogger.com)
Number of independent visitors: 229.9 million
Introduction: Blog platform.
Growth process: Blogger was originally just a small company in San Francisco , and was deeply impacted by the bursting of the Internet bubble. Google acquired Blogger in 2002.
No. 10: MSN (MSN.com)
Number of independent visitors: 254.1 million
Introduction: Microsoft's portal website.
Growth process: MSN was originally just an ISP, and then people must go to the website. Hotmail and MSN Messenger have portals on MSN. It is currently a portal.
No. 9: Baidu (Baidu.com)
Number of independent visitors: 268.7 million
Introduction: Chinese websites, audio, and image search engines.
Growth process: Baidu is one of the most popular search engines in China. It employs thousands of top-notch engineers in China, continuously improving search quality and speed.
No. 8: Microsoft official website (Microsoft.com)
Number of independent visitors: 271.7 million
Introduction: Microsoft company official website, users can purchase Microsoft's software and hardware products and download software updates on the website.
Growth process: There are countless devices using Windows systems around the world. These devices have Microsoft's official website in the bookmarks of built-in browsers. Users can find customer support and other services on this website.
No. 7: Tencent (QQ.com)
Number of independent visitors: 284.1 million
Introduction: Chinese search engines and portals.
Growth process: Tencent behind QQ.com has the most popular instant messaging tool in China. Tencent QQ has more than 700 million active users, which has also driven the growth of Tencent's products such as Qzone and Tencent Weibo.
No. 6: Live Mail (Live.com)
Number of independent visitors: 389.5 million
Introduction: Microsoft's email service.
Growth process: Through Live.com, users can access Hotmail and Outlook, two emails launched by Microsoft. Currently, users who visit Hotmail.com and Outlook.com will be redirected to Live.com.
No. 5: Wikipedia (Wikipedia.com)
Number of independent visitors: 469.6 million
Introduction: Free online encyclopedia.
Growth process: Anyone can publish and edit content on Wikipedia, making it an excellent educational content platform. Like Answers.com, Wikipedia's large amount of traffic comes from Google because it answers questions people ask on Google.
No. 4: Yahoo (Yahoo.com)
Number of independent visitors: 469.9 million
Introduction: Search engine, it can also bring users down other Yahoo services, such as Yandex Mail and Flickr.
Growth process: Yahoo is one of the oldest portals. People are happy to visit Yahoo to view news, sports, and financial information. Yahoo Mail also has many users.
No. 3: Youtube (Youtube.com)
Number of independent visitors: 721.9 million
Introduction: Video upload, sharing, and viewing platform.
Growth process: Google's acquisition of Youtube.com in 2006 made it more famous. Since then, people have been fascinated by various interesting videos on Youtube, and have also discovered new stars such as , Justin Bieber, (Justin Bieber).
No. 2: Google (Google.com)
Number of independent visitors: 782.8 million
Introduction: Search engine.
Growth process: Google began to enter the hot search engine market in the late 1990s, and eventually won by its speed and design advantages. Google currently provides various products such as Gmail, Gmail, Google+, etc. It is a way for people to explore the Internet.
No. 1: Facebook (Facebook.com)
Number of independent visitors: 836.7 million
Introduction: Social networking website.
Growth process: Facebook made its CEO Mark Zuckerberg website founded when he was a sophomore in Harvard. It was initially developed only for Harvard students, and then gradually expanded its user base to other universities, and finally opened it to all netizens over the age of 13.
