TechCrunch reported yesterday that Facebook is now just behind Google, Microsoft and Yahoo as the biggest sites in the world. Like commentating for a race clocked with internet speed, they say it blew past its rival MySpace last April, then passed Amazon in August, on its way to passing to eBay in January of this year and surging past AOL in February before finally passing Wikimedia last month. Not too shabby.
In the month of June alone, TechCrunch reports that Facebook had 24 million new unique visitors over their numbers the previous month, bringing them up to a total of 340 million unique visitors globally. In the past year, they’ve grown 157%, adding an astounding 208 million visitors to their numbers.
In the U.S. though, Facebook’s 77 million unique visitors in June made it only the sixth largest site in the land behind Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL and all the Fox Interactive Media sites combined.
But the jump between fourth place and third is pretty sizable. According to comScore, in June of 2009 Yahoo sites had 581 million unique visitors worldwide. That’s another 241 million, but if they keep growing like they have been, they could theoretically make that in about another year. Microsoft sites clocked in at 691 million, a difference of 351 million. And Google sites are in the lead with 844 million unique visitors globally. To pass them, Facebook would need another 504 million unique visitors. So it may be a while before Facebook even enters the top 3, let alone reach its apparent goal of world domination.
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