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Facebook tops Google ranking, snares 35% of Web users

28.05.2010
Despite growing , an astonishing 540 million Internet users worldwide visited Facebook in April 2010, or 35.2% of the entire population of Web users, according to new data from Google. Even more incredibly, those users clicked on 570 billion Facebook pages in April, a number eight times larger than Facebook's nearest competitor.

The new figures come from Google's , and rate the top 1,000 most-visited sites on the Web (excluding Google itself, YouTube and Gmail).

Yahoo came in second place after Facebook, with 490 million unique visitors, 31.8% of the world's Internet-connected population, and 70 billion page views. Next was Microsoft's Live.com, with 370 million unique visitors and 39 billion page views.

The most popular sites after Live.com were Wikipedia, MSN.com, Microsoft.com, Blogspot.com, Baidu.com, GG.com and Mozilla.com.

The numbers show that Facebook is the undisputed king of social networking, with rival Twitter attracting a comparatively modest 96 million unique visitors and 5.4 billion page views in April 2010.