These are the most visited and popular websites in the world (2020)

These are the most visited and popular websites in the world (2020)

Chances are, some of your favorite websites or pages (the ones you visit often) are on this global list of 2019's most popular websites by ElectronicaHoy.com. A list is full of familiar names like Google, YouTube, Facebook, Wikipedia, or Amazon.

However, several TOP 10 websites you will not know because they operate in China (yes, that country with more than 1.4 billion inhabitants). I'm talking about the famous Chinese search engine Baidu, very similar to Google. The online store Wmall, or Qq, which offers a wide variety of Yahoo-style online services.

1. Google


En el primer puesto de las páginas web más vistas del mundo se encuentra Google. Empresa fundada por Larry Page y Sergey Brin en un garaje de California en 1988. Trataron de hacer un motor de búsqueda potente, y vaya si lo consiguieron…
Google ofrece múltiples servicios, pero el más importante y por el que más se le conoce es por su buscador (el que la mayoría de personas usamos). Dispone también de otras aplicaciones destacadas, como servicio de correo electrónico (Gmail), servicio de mapas y GPS (Google Maps), el navegador Google Chrome, el traductor multilenguaje o el servicio de almacenamiento de datos en la nube (Google Drive). Todos ellos son gratis, aunque incluyen publicidad.
Alrededor del 80% de su fuente de ingresos proviene de Google Adwords, un programa de publicidad donde las empresas promocionan sus productos y servicios. Estos se muestran en las búsquedas de Google y en Maps.
Esta empresa siempre se ha caracterizado por cuidar bien de sus empleados. Tanto es así que ofrece cada día 3 comidas gratis sin límite de cantidad, servicio de peluquería, gimnasio y otras tantas opciones que muy pocas multinacionales facilitan a sus trabajadores. Lo que no es fácil es entrar a trabajar allí, porque sólamente escogen a los mejores en cada materia.

2. Youtube


YouTube is the second most popular and visited site in the world. This page was created in 2005 by three PayPal employees (Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim). A year later, in 2006, Google bought YouTube for more than $ 1.6 billion. Of course an enviable project and history.

The traffic volume of this page is something incredible and huge. Every day more than 600 million people go through YouTube with an average of 25 minutes per user and 12 page views.

On this famous website, videos of all kinds are shared, as well as movies, series, online events, music videos, or about games. It is available in more than 80 languages, so its breadth is unique. As a result, it is number one on video websites, ahead of Twitch, Vimeo, or Dailymotion.

Youtube is a unique and incomparable website
Currently, it offers different types of online services. Those in charge of creating and sharing videos on this network are called YouTubers. In Spain, most of us know Rubius (Rubén), a boy who attracts the masses. His channel elrubiusOMG has more than 35 million followers (it is the Spanish channel that most people follow).


3. Tmall


The Tmall online store is an open consumer sales platform that enables companies around the world to come together to reach the vast and growing consumer market in China. Tmall has established itself as the destination for quality brands for increasingly sophisticated Chinese customers. It is the most visited online retail store in that country, with more than 500 million monthly active users. Created from Taobao (currently owned by Alibaba Group).


4. Facebook


The popular social networking site was started by Mark Zuckerberg in his Harvard college dorm in 2004. Since then, this company has grown to serve more than a billion users worldwide. Which makes it the most powerful tool for finding people online. There is no limit to the popularity of this site.

According to Alexa, Facebook occupies the third position of the most visited websites worldwide. The average user spends more than 10 minutes on the website and looks at around 5 pages [5.21] each time they access. On the other hand, Facebook has, by far, the largest number of sites that link it compared to all its rivals (Twitter, Instagram, Tuenti, and other well-known social networks).



5. Baidu


Launched on January 18, 2000, Baidu Inc is a Chinese multinational technology company specializing in Internet and artificial intelligence (AI) related products and services. Its flagship product is the online search engine. This search engine offers a "simple and reliable" search experience, yes, in Chinese.


6. Wikipedia


Wikipedia is a collaboratively edited free online encyclopedia that is well known globally. Initially launched in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, the website is the largest and most popular landmark in general and truth information today. It is currently a free website where you can find millions of articles in 287 languages open to be edited by anyone (as long as the information is contrasted with reliable data).


7. Qq


Founded in November 1998 by Tencent, Qq has more than 700 million users. With the strategic goal of providing an all-in-one, the website offers a wide variety of services ranging from instant messaging, email, search engine, shopping, and even online dating. The various Tencent platforms: QQ, QQ Games and PaiPai make up the largest Internet community in China.

In connection with other widely used functions such as forums, chat rooms, and QQ groups, it has become the largest personal Internet space in China. Furthermore, the virtual products Qq: QQ Show, QQ Pet, QQ Game, and QQ Music / Live also manage to provide entertainment and customization options to its millions of eastern users.


8. Yahoo


Yahoo! is a California-based web service provider owned by Verizon Media. The company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994. Yahoo was one of the pioneers of the early Internet era in the 1990s. It is still in force today, so much so that it is in the TOP 8 of web pages. most visited.

It has a web portal, a search engine, Yahoo! Yahoo Mail! News, Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Groups, and Yahoo! Answers. Similarly, at its peak it was one of the most popular sites, and, to this day, it still is.


9. Taobao


Initially launched in May 2003, Taobao is another of China's most popular online consumer markets. The website attracts customers who value the wide range of products and services of the online platform. One of its main characteristics is the competitiveness in the prices of its products.

As a result, the site was regarded as China's largest online shopping destination in terms of gross merchandise volume in recent years. Currently, the Taobao Marketplace business is part of the Alibaba Group, as is Tmall.


10. Amazon


In the top 10 web pages is Amazon. A multinational technology company focused on e-commerce, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence, located in Washington. It is one of the Big Four or "Four Horsemen" of technology along with Google, Apple, and Facebook due to its continued innovation, brand value and competitiveness.

Amazon was founded by Jeff Bezos on July 5, 1994, and started as an online bookstore. Then it diversified to sell video downloads, MP3, audiobooks, software, video games, electronics, clothing, furniture, ...

As a result, the company has grown so much that it now owns a publishing division (Amazon Publishing), a film and television studio (Amazon Studios), and most importantly, produces consumer electronics lines such as Kindle readers, Fire tablets. , Fire TV devices, and also Echo devices. Similarly, it is the world's largest provider of cloud services.

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