Wikipedia is listed as the most visited page in the world, as it is one of the most visited sites on the internet in 43 countries spread over different continents.

Web domain provider Hostinger conducted a study detailing which web pages are the most visited by country, without taking into account the traffic generated by platforms such as Facebook and YouTube.

Based on results from Zyro in 2021, when Hostinger determined that Internet users spend 213.2 billion hours a year on Google, 12.6 billion hours on YouTube, and 44.6 billion hours on Facebook, Hostinger launches its Meta social network and Google’s video streaming service. stated that he excluded the service. .

First, it was determined that Wikipedia was the most viewed page worldwide, followed by Twitter and Amazon in second and third place, respectively. In addition, among some of the global results, the study finds that the BBC is the most visited news site in most countries (topping the UK’s most viewed list), and Amazon is the page with more accesses. in the United States, Guinea and Burundi.

In this sense, the report points out that Amazon receives 2,660 million visits each year in its country of origin, with nearly half of online buyers entering the website from the very beginning to make their purchases.

According to the study, Wikipedia is the most visited website in 15 out of 38 European countries. These include the Netherlands, Germany, Ireland, France, Switzerland, Portugal, Italy, Bulgaria, Ukraine and Romania.

In this vein, Hostinger reviewed another study conducted by the Pew Research Center that found that the most popular English-language pages in this virtual, free-to-access encyclopedia tend to refer to current events and movies.

The most viewed websites worldwide, Wikipedia and Twitter, also dominate in North America, although half of the nations in that country prioritize the use of forums and so-called ‘fandoms’. These include Reddit (most visited in Canada), Nintenderos (in Guatemala), and Sufficient Velocity (which interests the majority of users in Puerto Rico).

In South America, the use of Wikipedia is predominant, although the so-called blog culture is also widely accepted. This is the case of Bolivia, a country where Blogspot has become a place of laundering for marginalized groups.

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Electronic commerce also exists in this country because MercadoLibre, a platform similar to eBay where sellers and buyers can connect through an auction network, is the most viewed page in Argentina.

On the contrary, in Venezuela the Bank of Venezuela web page is accessed more frequently, in Brazil Internet users access digital content company UOL first, and in Uruguay the Montevideo Portal tops the list.

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The study points out that there are countries from the Middle East that offer certain features, such as the relevance of web pages with a local domain. In this case, Israel and Uzbekistan appear to be the only countries with local extensions (‘il’ and ‘uz’, respectively) of the most visited sites in the region.

On the other hand, Hostiguer points out that although Twitter leads the countries of North and South America, Africa and the Middle East, Japan is the second country with the most active users.

Also, Indonesia is the country that records the most visits to this social network, despite having the eighth active user base in the world. Twitter is the most viewed page in Laos, despite only getting 879,105 annual visits.

In Africa, for example, only a quarter of the population uses the internet, and the IMDb database of movies and TV shows is the most visited database nationwide in Liberia. In Ghana, the university’s website triumphs with 6.28 million visits per year.