Search analytics firm Compete recently released a list of the top 50 websites according to the number of unique visitors.
There are no surprises here and, other than a couple of fluctuations in the rankings, the sites that made it to the list last year are still around. Among video sharing websites, ustream.tv registered the maximum growth in terms of unique visitors while traffic to deal website Groupon grew more than 655% since the past year.
The Most Popular Websites of 2011
Rank | Website Name | Unique Visitors | Yearly Change |
1 | 150,132,536 | -0.34% | |
2 | 137,917,539 | 13.33% | |
3 | 137,281,886 | 2.02% | |
4 | 123,404,304 | 22.42% | |
5 | 86,836,886 | 48.43% | |
6 | 81,157,591 | 6.01% | |
7 | 74,978,780 | 12.71% | |
8 | 73,799,209 | 8.95% | |
9 | 72,369,485 | 4.21% | |
10 | 67,372,294 | -10.04% | |
11 | 65,940,748 | 12.10% | |
12 | 62,162,835 | 9.19% | |
13 | 57,500,250 | -5.52% | |
14 | 54,508,628 | -10.72% | |
15 | 49,504,372 | 17.32% | |
16 | 47,709,562 | 3.88% | |
17 | 46,906,652 | 2.32% | |
18 | 46,349,561 | 14.15% | |
19 | 45,960,705 | 60.20% | |
20 | 42,276,025 | 38.03% | |
21 | 36,700,156 | -9.61% | |
22 | 36,178,431 | 24.64% | |
23 | 33,728,429 | 11.58% | |
24 | 33,459,473 | 1.92% | |
25 | 33,129,869 | 52.15% | |
26 | 32,876,686 | -53.60% | |
27 | 31,870,573 | 11.06% | |
28 | 31,103,237 | 10.79% | |
29 | 31,079,363 | 3.17% | |
30 | 27,504,233 | -0.75% | |
31 | 26,432,079 | 5.86% | |
32 | 25,744,344 | 12.12% | |
33 | 25,671,467 | 4.82% | |
34 | 23,787,667 | -2.86% | |
35 | 23,768,883 | 655.82% | |
36 | 23,341,250 | -13.93% | |
37 | 21,514,439 | -13.68% | |
38 | 20,523,415 | -23.97% | |
39 | 20,077,436 | 57.38% | |
40 | 19,690,984 | -1.66% | |
41 | 19,683,713 | 40.39% | |
42 | 19,682,366 | -4.02% | |
43 | 19,452,462 | 33.94% | |
44 | 19,348,832 | 25.28% | |
45 | 19,244,361 | 3.58% | |
46 | 18,440,068 | 11.74% | |
47 | 18,405,154 | -13.40% | |
48 | 18,362,992 | 60.51% | |
49 | 17,984,172 | 26.90% | |
50 | 17,949,686 | 19.84% |
