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“Yahoo has regained its position as the #1 most visited Web site on earth.” Is that true? Is it really visited more often than Facebook, Google, Twitter, or Yo

“Yahoo has regained its position as the #1 most visited Web site on earth.” Is that true? Is it really visited more often than Facebook, Google, Twitter, or YouTube? Alexa doesn’t agree[1]. According to a recent article[2], Yahoo is the most popular website in 2 regions: Japan and Hong Kong. [1] http://www.alexa.com/topsites http://www.alexa.com/topsites [2] http://www.fastcocreate.com/3019595/creativity-by-the-numbers/see-a-map-of-the-world-revealing-each-countrys-most-visited-websit http://www.fastcocreate.com/3019595/creativity-by-the-number...

coldtea 13y ago
>Is that true? Is it really visited more often than Facebook, Google, Twitter, or YouTube? Alexa doesn’t agree First of all, Alexa is crap. It might be accurate in this instance, but it's crap nonetheless, especially for sites under the top 1000. Second, those are not sites in the traditional sense. Google is a search engine, YouTube is a video sharing service, etc. That leaves Yahoo.
Tloewald 13y ago
...most visited by people dumb enough to install Alexa. Alexa stats are interesting, because people who install searchbars voluntarily are also probably more likely to click on an ad and buy your penis enlargement cream.
webwright 13y ago
Yep. https://www.google.com/search?q=yahoo+most+visited https://www.google.com/search?q=yahoo+most+visited It's Yahoo properties, not Yahoo.com. Big boost: they bought Tumblr.
- Samuel_Michon 13y ago
  From the first result: “Yahoo ranks as the most-visited website in the U.S., according to the latest report from ComScore” (So: ‘US’, not ‘the world’) and: “Traffic to Tumblr [...] did not contribute to Yahoo's overall traffic number[...] Tumblr ranked as the 28th most popular U.S. property” (Again, just the US, and not even that popular) http://www.informationweek.com/cloud-computing/software/yahoo-trumps-google-as-most-visited-webs/240160303 http://www.informationweek.com/cloud-computing/software/yaho...
notatoad 13y ago
i seem to remember from previous discussions of this statistic that yahoo gets to say this because they use the same domain in all (or at least most) regions. yahoo.com is bigger than google.com, but if you add up google.com, google.co.uk, google.ca, etc, google dwarfs yahoo.
lambda 13y ago
According to one of the articles on the topic I found when I decided to look this up[1]: "Granted, the rare monthly win for Yahoo does not include search and mobile results." Huh? Sure, Yahoo tops Google if you exclude Google's biggest property and the entire mobile market (which Google controls nearly 80% of). That's like if you saw a headline that said "Apple controls more of the desktop market than Microsoft (granted, the win doesn't include business customers or machines running Windows 7 and older)." 1: http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2013/08/22/yahoo-tops-google-for-site-visits/2684059/ http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2013/08/22/yahoo-tops-goo...

coldtea 13y ago

>Is that true? Is it really visited more often than Facebook, Google, Twitter, or YouTube? Alexa doesn’t agree First of all, Alexa is crap. It might be accurate in this instance, but it's crap nonetheless, especially for sites under the top 1000. Second, those are not sites in the traditional sense. Google is a search engine, YouTube is a video sharing service, etc. That leaves Yahoo.

Tloewald 13y ago

...most visited by people dumb enough to install Alexa. Alexa stats are interesting, because people who install searchbars voluntarily are also probably more likely to click on an ad and buy your penis enlargement cream.

webwright 13y ago

Yep. https://www.google.com/search?q=yahoo+most+visited https://www.google.com/search?q=yahoo+most+visited It's Yahoo properties, not Yahoo.com. Big boost: they bought Tumblr.

Samuel_Michon 13y ago
From the first result: “Yahoo ranks as the most-visited website in the U.S., according to the latest report from ComScore” (So: ‘US’, not ‘the world’) and: “Traffic to Tumblr [...] did not contribute to Yahoo's overall traffic number[...] Tumblr ranked as the 28th most popular U.S. property” (Again, just the US, and not even that popular) http://www.informationweek.com/cloud-computing/software/yahoo-trumps-google-as-most-visited-webs/240160303 http://www.informationweek.com/cloud-computing/software/yaho...

notatoad 13y ago

i seem to remember from previous discussions of this statistic that yahoo gets to say this because they use the same domain in all (or at least most) regions. yahoo.com is bigger than google.com, but if you add up google.com, google.co.uk, google.ca, etc, google dwarfs yahoo.

lambda 13y ago

According to one of the articles on the topic I found when I decided to look this up[1]: "Granted, the rare monthly win for Yahoo does not include search and mobile results." Huh? Sure, Yahoo tops Google if you exclude Google's biggest property and the entire mobile market (which Google controls nearly 80% of). That's like if you saw a headline that said "Apple controls more of the desktop market than Microsoft (granted, the win doesn't include business customers or machines running Windows 7 and older)." 1: http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2013/08/22/yahoo-tops-google-for-site-visits/2684059/ http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2013/08/22/yahoo-tops-goo...