Facebook Leapfrogs Google as Most Visited Website
Facebook Leapfrogs Google as Most Visited Website
Posted 12/31/2010 at 7:59am
| by Paul Lilly
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What a year it's been for Facebook, the world's largest social networking playground with over 500 million registered users. As 2010 comes to a close, Mark Zuckerberg and the rest of this troops can celebrate that Facebook is now the most visitied website in the U.S., Reuters reports.
From January to November 2010, Facebook accounted for 8.9 percent of all U.S. traffic. Google, which held the top spot since 2008, dropped down to second place with 7.2 percent. And for those of you still following MySpace, it's dropped from being the most visited website in the U.S. in 2007 to No. 7 in 2010.
It would appear that social networking is more popular than searching for answers, though to be fair, Google still retains the top spot if you add up all of its ventures. Factor in YouTube and Gmail, for example, and Google jumps back into first place with 9.9 percent of all U.S. traffic.
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MiltonJeptha
July 18, 2011 at 7:44am
These kind of statistics related to the traffic of the largest sites help me a lot in my line of work. At the Phoenix web design office, we take into account the design elements of such incredible successful sites and try to figure out witch of them can help us improve out work. I am a bit amazed that Google no longer retains the top spot for internet traffic. It seems that social media is coming in strong.
logicmaster2003
December 31, 2010 at 11:44am
wake up people...
Even if Facebook becomes the most visited site..
1) Facebook is still a useless crap (its only for social network stuffs and nothing else ) - a waste of bandwidth and personal time.
2) Google is still the champ - it gets the content what you want and how you want it - educational, informative, factual.
Vano
December 31, 2010 at 9:50am
To be fair, it should be:
"Facebook leapfrog Google Search as Most Visited Website"
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