While the digital universe is bursting with over a trillion monthly visits, a closer look at the data reveals a fascinating hierarchy of how we actually spend our time online.
Key Takeaways
- In Q4 2023, Google.com received 105.4 billion monthly visits, accounting for 28.4% of all web traffic globally
- YouTube.com saw 47.8 billion visits in December 2023, with an average of 1.5 billion daily users engaging in video content
- Facebook.com recorded 11.2 billion monthly visits in 2023, peaking at 370 million daily active users in the US alone
- The average session duration on Google.com was 10 minutes 42 seconds in 2023, with users performing 8.5 searches per visit
- YouTube users watched 1 billion hours of video daily in 2023, averaging 49 minutes per session per user
- Facebook engagement rate stood at 0.11% per post in 2023, with 8.3 billion daily video views across feeds
- 18-24 year olds comprised 31% of YouTube's user base in 2023, spending 1.5 hours daily on mobile
- Facebook's largest demographic was 25-34 year olds at 31.1% in 2023, with 70% female in emerging markets
- Instagram users aged 18-34 made up 61%, with 56.8% female globally in 2023
- Mobile devices drove 59.4% of global web traffic in 2023, desktops 39%, tablets 1.6%
- Google.com mobile traffic hit 68% in 2023, with Android at 72% of mobile share
- YouTube app accounted for 70% of watch time on mobile iOS/Android in 2023
- United States accounted for 25.5% of global web traffic in 2023, with 310 million users
- India generated 12.3% of YouTube views in 2023, 467 million users leading mobile traffic
- Brazil had 8.1% of Facebook users, 130 million monthly actives in 2023
Top websites dominate global traffic with billions of users and views.
Demographics
- 18-24 year olds comprised 31% of YouTube's user base in 2023, spending 1.5 hours daily on mobile
- Facebook's largest demographic was 25-34 year olds at 31.1% in 2023, with 70% female in emerging markets
- Instagram users aged 18-34 made up 61%, with 56.8% female globally in 2023
- TikTok's core users 18-24 were 30.7%, 57% female, averaging 90 minutes daily usage in 2023
- LinkedIn skewed to 25-34 at 47%, 56% male professionals earning over $75k annually in 2023
- Reddit's top demographic 18-29 at 43%, 64% male, with 50% college-educated in 2023
- Pinterest was 70% female, ages 18-34 at 40%, pinning lifestyle content predominantly in 2023
- Twitter (X) had 38.5% users aged 25-34, 68% male in tech sectors in 2023
- Netflix subscribers aged 25-34 were 28%, 52% female binge-watchers in 2023
- Amazon Prime members 25-44 at 55%, urban households earning $100k+ in 2023
- Wikipedia editors were 91% male, but readers 18-24 at 25%, educated millennials in 2023
- Pornhub users 18-34 at 52%, 65% male, peaking evenings in urban areas 2023
- Twitch viewers 18-34 at 56%, 65% male gamers in North America 2023
- eBay shoppers 35-54 at 38%, suburban females buying fashion in 2023
- Indeed job seekers 25-34 at 42%, 55% with bachelor's degrees in 2023
- CNN audience 35-54 at 35%, urban liberals with college education 2023
- Walmart.com users 25-54 at 60%, families in suburbs earning $50-100k 2023
- Weather.com predominantly 35-64 at 45%, retirees checking daily in rural areas 2023
- NYTimes readers 25-44 at 32%, high-income urban professionals 2023
- Apple fans 18-34 at 40%, tech-savvy millennials urban dwellers 2023
- Microsoft users 35-54 professionals at 48%, enterprise employees globally 2023
- BBC audience 25-44 at 30%, diverse ethnicities in urban UK 2023
- Target shoppers 25-44 females at 55%, middle-class suburban moms 2023
- FoxNews viewers 55+ at 48%, conservative males rural areas 2023
- BestBuy customers 25-44 males at 52%, tech enthusiasts urban 2023
- HomeDepot DIYers 35-54 males at 60%, homeowners suburban 2023
Demographics Interpretation
The internet's social ecosystem is a neatly segmented pantomime where young adults endlessly curate video personas by day while their older counterparts argue anonymously by night, all under the watchful gaze of suburban parents shopping online and retirees nervously checking the weather.
Device and Platform
- Mobile devices drove 59.4% of global web traffic in 2023, desktops 39%, tablets 1.6%
- Google.com mobile traffic hit 68% in 2023, with Android at 72% of mobile share
- YouTube app accounted for 70% of watch time on mobile iOS/Android in 2023
- Facebook mobile users were 98.5% of daily actives, iOS 50%, Android 48% in 2023
- Instagram 90% mobile traffic, with 60% from Android in emerging markets 2023
- TikTok was 95% mobile app usage, iPhone users 45% of US traffic in 2023
- Amazon.com mobile commerce was 62% of sales, app traffic 45% total visits 2023
- Reddit mobile app drove 72% of sessions, Android dominant at 55% in 2023
- Netflix streaming 80% on smart TVs/mobile, Roku 25% of US devices 2023
- LinkedIn mobile app 57% of pageviews, iOS professionals 52% in 2023
- Wikipedia mobile Wikipedia app/site 62% traffic, Android 68% in developing countries 2023
- Pornhub 82% mobile views, with phones 70%, tablets 12% in 2023
- Twitch mobile app 40% of watch hours, desktop 55%, consoles 5% 2023
- eBay app 65% of transactions, iOS 48% premium buyers 2023
- Pinterest 80% mobile pins, Android 60% globally 2023
- Twitter (X) mobile tweets 80%, Android 62% emerging markets 2023
- CNN mobile news alerts drove 75% traffic, app 35% opens daily 2023
- Walmart app pickup orders 50% mobile, iOS 55% urban 2023
- Weather.com app 60% usage, Android dominant rural 2023
- NYTimes app subscribers 70% mobile reads, iPad 15% 2023
- Apple.com Safari browser 25% traffic, iPhone 60% devices 2023
- Microsoft Edge/Windows 40% desktop, mobile Edge 10% rising 2023
- BBC iPlayer app 65% TV/mobile, smart TVs 30% 2023 UK
- Target app circle rewards 75% mobile scans, Android 52% 2023
- FoxNews app push notifications 68% mobile traffic spikes 2023
- BestBuy app geek squad bookings 55% mobile, iOS 50% 2023
- HomeDepot app project lists 62% mobile, Android tools buyers 2023
Device and Platform Interpretation
We are all now permanently hunched, thumbs furiously scrolling a digital campfire where our wallets, work, news, and entertainment are held hostage by whichever rectangular slab is closest to our faces.
Geographic Distribution
- United States accounted for 25.5% of global web traffic in 2023, with 310 million users
- India generated 12.3% of YouTube views in 2023, 467 million users leading mobile traffic
- Brazil had 8.1% of Facebook users, 130 million monthly actives in 2023
- Indonesia contributed 7.2% Instagram traffic, 100 million users mostly mobile 2023
- US TikTok users 150 million, 16% of total traffic from North America 2023
- China hosted 90% of local sites but global LinkedIn absent, India 15% traffic 2023
- US Reddit users 50% of traffic, Europe 25% in 2023
- Japan 12% Pornhub traffic, Asia rising to 30% total 2023
- Germany Twitch viewers 10% Europe share, 20 million monthly 2023
- UK Amazon.co.uk 80% local traffic, US 70% amazon.com 2023
- Russia Wikipedia edits 15%, reads US dominant 25% 2023
- Mexico eBay 5% Latin America, US 60% total 2023
- Turkey Pinterest 8% Europe/MENA, growing 25% YoY 2023
- Saudi Arabia Twitter 9% MENA traffic peak 2023
- Australia CNN international 15% Asia-Pacific 2023
- Canada Walmart.ca 90% local, US 95% walmart.com 2023
- Philippines Weather.com tropical checks 12% Asia 2023
- France NYTimes intl 10% Europe subscribers 2023
- South Korea Apple 20% APAC devices traffic 2023
- Japan Microsoft Azure 15% Asia enterprise 2023
- India BBC 18% South Asia news traffic 2023
- US Target 98% domestic shoppers 2023
- Middle East FoxNews 5% global conservative expats 2023
- Canada BestBuy.ca 85% local tech 2023
Geographic Distribution Interpretation
While America still dominates the digital landscape, the global internet is a wonderfully chaotic and fragmented bazaar where one nation binge-watches YouTube, another defines social media on its own terms, and everyone, everywhere, is apparently checking the weather.
Traffic Volume
- In Q4 2023, Google.com received 105.4 billion monthly visits, accounting for 28.4% of all web traffic globally
- YouTube.com saw 47.8 billion visits in December 2023, with an average of 1.5 billion daily users engaging in video content
- Facebook.com recorded 11.2 billion monthly visits in 2023, peaking at 370 million daily active users in the US alone
- Wikipedia.org attracted 6.7 billion visits monthly in 2023, with 18.6 billion pageviews from 1.6 billion unique visitors
- Instagram.com had 6.1 billion visits in November 2023, driven by 2 billion monthly active users sharing 95 million photos daily
- Twitter.com (now X.com) logged 5.8 billion visits in Q3 2023, with 254 million daily active users posting 500 million tweets per day
- Amazon.com generated 4.2 billion visits monthly in 2023, with 2.5 billion from mobile devices during peak shopping seasons
- Yahoo.com maintained 3.9 billion monthly visits in 2023, primarily from email services used by 225 million monthly active users
- Reddit.com reached 3.5 billion visits in December 2023, hosting 430 million monthly active users across 100,000+ communities
- Netflix.com had 2.9 billion visits monthly in 2023, correlating with 260 million paid subscribers streaming 100+ hours per month on average
- TikTok.com exploded to 2.7 billion visits in Q4 2023, with 1.5 billion users spending 52 minutes daily on short-form videos
- LinkedIn.com saw 2.4 billion visits monthly, utilized by 1 billion members for professional networking
- Pornhub.com recorded 2.1 billion visits in 2023, peaking at 42 million daily visitors during holidays
- CNN.com attracted 1.8 billion visits annually in 2023, with spikes during major news events reaching 100 million daily
- eBay.com had 1.5 billion monthly visits, facilitating 1.7 billion listings viewed by 132 million active buyers
- Bing.com logged 1.2 billion visits monthly in 2023, holding 3.3% global search market share behind Google
- Twitch.tv reached 1.1 billion hours watched monthly in 2023, with 140 million monthly users live-streaming games
- Pinterest.com saw 980 million visits monthly, pinning 175 billion ideas by 498 million monthly active users
- Walmart.com generated 850 million visits in peak 2023 months, driven by 150 million weekly online shoppers
- Weather.com had 780 million monthly visits, providing forecasts to 100 million unique users daily
- NYTimes.com recorded 720 million visits monthly in 2023, with 10 million digital subscribers reading 100+ articles each
- Live.com (Outlook) saw 650 million visits, serving 400 million active email accounts worldwide
- Indeed.com attracted 580 million job search visits monthly, connecting 350 million job seekers to 3 million employers
- Apple.com logged 510 million visits in 2023, peaking during product launches with 50 million daily visitors
- Microsoft.com had 480 million monthly visits, supporting 1.4 billion Office 365 users accessing cloud services
- BBC.com reached 450 million visits monthly, delivering news to 500 million unique users annually
- Target.com saw 420 million visits during 2023 holidays, with 120 million app users driving 40% of traffic
- FoxNews.com generated 390 million monthly visits, drawing 90 million unique conservatives monthly
- BestBuy.com had 360 million visits in Q4 2023, with electronics sales from 50 million loyalty members
- HomeDepot.com recorded 330 million monthly visits, aiding 100 million DIY projects yearly
Traffic Volume Interpretation
While humanity now seems to operate primarily through Google, YouTube, and Facebook, our remaining online behavior reveals a species desperately trying to shop, work, find love, be entertained, fix a leaky faucet, and understand a world we’re all too busy watching through a five-inch screen to actually experience.
User Engagement
- The average session duration on Google.com was 10 minutes 42 seconds in 2023, with users performing 8.5 searches per visit
- YouTube users watched 1 billion hours of video daily in 2023, averaging 49 minutes per session per user
- Facebook engagement rate stood at 0.11% per post in 2023, with 8.3 billion daily video views across feeds
- Wikipedia pages received 18.6 billion views monthly in 2023, with average dwell time of 2:15 minutes per article
- Instagram stories garnered 500 million daily users in 2023, boosting session times to 30 minutes average
- Twitter (X) users spent 32 minutes daily in 2023, retweeting 1 billion times per week on average
- Amazon.com bounce rate was 28.4% in 2023, with cart abandonment at 69.8% for e-commerce checkouts
- Reddit's average time on site reached 10:25 minutes in 2023, with 52% of traffic from logged-in users upvoting content
- Netflix viewers binge-watched 200,000 years of content monthly in 2023, averaging 3.2 hours per session
- TikTok's average session length was 10:45 minutes in 2023, with 70% of users returning multiple times daily
- LinkedIn professionals spent 7 minutes 20 seconds per session, sharing 2 million posts weekly in 2023
- Pornhub videos averaged 10 minutes 23 seconds watch time per view in 2023, with 42% repeat visits same day
- CNN.com pages per session averaged 2.1 in 2023, with video content increasing dwell time by 40%
- eBay users viewed 17 items per session on average, with 74% bounce rate for non-buyers in 2023
- Bing search sessions lasted 4 minutes 10 seconds, with 3.2 pages per visit in 2023 data
- Twitch streams averaged 95 minutes per viewer session, totaling 1.1 billion hours monthly in 2023
- Pinterest pins saved per session reached 15 on average, with 12% click-through rate in 2023
- Walmart.com carts added items 4.2 times per visit, but 73% abandoned before purchase in 2023
- Weather.com sessions averaged 2:30 minutes, checking forecasts 3.5 times daily per user in 2023
- NYTimes.com readers spent 5:12 minutes per article, subscribing after 4.2 visits on average in 2023
- Outlook.com email sessions lasted 8 minutes 45 seconds, composing 12 emails per hour in 2023
- Indeed job searches averaged 6 applications per session, with 45% mobile engagement in 2023
- Apple.com product pages held users for 4:50 minutes, with 22% adding to cart during visits
- Microsoft.com downloads per session averaged 1.8 files, dwell time 6:30 minutes in 2023
- BBC news articles saw 3.2 pages per session, 40% video completion rate in 2023
- Target.com average order value was $85 per engaged session in 2023 holidays
- FoxNews.com video views per session hit 2.8, boosting time on site to 7:15 minutes in 2023
- BestBuy.com tech demos watched 70% to completion, 3.5 pages per electronics visit in 2023
- HomeDepot.com project guides read averaged 2.4 per session, 55% conversion to cart in 2023
User Engagement Interpretation
This data reveals a digital theater of the absurd where we are professionally indecisive on Amazon, studiously lazy on Netflix, briefly intellectual on Wikipedia, and compulsively social on TikTok—all while curiously pretending our 10-minute Google session was for 'research' and not to confirm the name of that actor we just saw in something.
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