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YouTube Will Soon Pass Facebook As Second Biggest Website In US (cnbc.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the internet-shake-up dept.

According to a new study from market research firm SimilarWeb, Facebook may cede its runner-up position to YouTube in the next two to three months. Currently, the top five most-visited websites in the U.S. are Google, Facebook, YouTube, Yahoo and Amazon, in that order. However, Facebook's monthly page visits are declining rapidly, from 8.5 billion to 4.7 billion in the last two years, which could shake up that order. CNBC reports: YouTube, which is owned by Google parent Alphabet, has seen increased traffic, the study said. The app has also experienced in increase in viewership. Yahoo is also poised to lose its position in the ranking. Amazon has already surpassed Yahoo during big spending months, including December 2017 and July 2018, when the e-commerce giant held its annual Prime Day. The study projects that Amazon will take over Yahoo's ranking in the next two to three months. However, none of the bottom four of the top five comes close to Google. Although it has seen some decline in website traffic thanks to app use and voice search, it saw approximately 15 billion visits in July 2018, the study said. The others were all below 5 billion, according to the report.

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  1. They buried the lede... by cervesaebraciator · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yahoo still exists?

    1. Re:They buried the lede... by Virtex · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Yahoo still exists. When you visit one of their pages, it makes about 10 million GET requests from their server to pump up their page view count, assuming they count every GET request as a page view (this is corporate America - OF COURSE they count every request as a page view).

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  2. Re:Facebook is a declining WEBSITE rising APP by PopeRatzo · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The Alex Jones de-platforming brouhaha has frightened a lot of content creators.

    The tiny group of particular "content creators" you're talking about should be scared. It was only because of the brief rise of the "alt-right" that they felt they could show their faces in society. There was a time when they had to meet in secret in basements and pass grubby pamphlets around in subway stations. If we're going to exist as a civil society, that time needs to return.

    We saw the rise of fascist and white supremacist groups before in our history, and it took a great deal of suffering and cost to put them down Hopefully this time it can be caught early. Look at how well it worked with Milo. Remember him? What was the last time you heard anything from that piece of garbage?

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