Google’s 1000 Most Visited Sites List

Google has released the list of 1000 most-visited sites on the web. The top 1000 compiles the largest 1000 sites worldwide, based on Unique Visitors as measured by Ad Planner.

Check out the list and you can see the site category, unique visitors (users), page views and whether the site has ads. Sitting on top is Facebook with 540 million unique visitors, followed by yahoo.com, live.com wikipedia.org, msn.com, microsoft.com, blogspot.com, baidu.com, qq.com, mozilla.com and so on…

most visited sites

If you check the 1000th site, to get on this list, you need over 4 million unique visitors per month and your site will be featured in the top 1000 list. This list is updated monthly as new Ad Planner datasets are released.

It’s not just an ego push to be listed here, Google Adwords introduced a new filter that allows advertisers to show Adsense  ads on the 1000 largest sites, as defined by DoubleClick Ad Planner. This new feature will ensure that your ads reach a large number of users, but only on well-known sites best suited for branding goals. To activate the new filter, select ‘non Ad Planner 1000’ within the ‘category filters’ section of your AdWords account.

All website have their own Ad Planner pages. See how the our Ad planner page looks like. It gives you a good estimate of traffic, advertising opitons, audeince interests and related sites. Check out what your ad planner profile page looks like. Replace our domain name with yours in url below.

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About the Author: P Chandra is editor of QOT, one of India's earliest tech bloggers since 2004. A tech enthusiast with expertise in coding, WordPress, web tools, SEO and DIY hacks.