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The 100 largest sites on the Internet ? You will be surprised!

By Dan Pinnington

The Infographic of the Day site has a fantastic item with some amazing graphics comparing the 100 Largest Sites on the Internet.

The BBC charted the top 100 sites by unique users in January 2010, encompassing the U.K., France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Brazil, U.S., and Australia. Oops ? Canada didn?t make it, but suspect we are not that different.

If you think Google and social networking own the Internet – think again ? and it isn?t shopping either. Yes these three types of sites are among the more widely visited ? but all together they only account for about a third of Internet activity. Media/news sites do very well, as do reference sites, software and blogging sites.

When is comes to social networking Facebook rules ? about 60% of traffic – no other profile-driven site is even close. Twitter much less popular (approx 1/5 of Facebook), and LinkedIn is even smaller (about 1/8 of Facebook). I think Facebook is becoming the Internet for loads and loads of people. MySpace didn’t even make the list.

And for the shoppers out there: eBay and Amazon comprise over 1/3 of traffic – but brick-and-mortar retailers like Walmart, Target, and Best-Buy also have a surprisingly large amount of traffic.

The 100 Largest Sites on the Internet Infographic of the Day article is really worth a look.

Enjoy, and thanks to Merrilyn Tarlton for pointing this great article out to me.

Full post as published by Slaw.ca on March 18, 2010 (boomark / email).