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Jun 29, 2021

Chart: The World's Most Popular Websites

Google is on the number one spot, but as the list moves down from the YouTube/Facebook level of obviousness, some of the sites on this list may surprise you – or even be complete unknowns.
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Ever wondered which websites are the most visited in the world? If you had to guess, you probably wouldn’t need to consult Google to know that the search engine is on the number one spot, but as the list moves down from the YouTube/Facebook level of obviousness, some of the sites on this list may surprise you – or even be complete unknowns.

According to SimilarWeb, in seventh place is the Chinese search engine baidu.com, which received almost 6 billion visitors in May. You don’t have to go too far before you find porn, of course, with xvideos.com in tenth place and 3.3 billion visits over the month one of two adult content sites in the top twelve.

This article was first published on Statista.

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