Despite growing privacy concerns, an astonishing 540 million Internet users worldwide visited Facebook in April 2010, or 35.2% of the entire population of Web users, according to new data from Google. Even more incredibly, those users clicked on 570 billion Facebook pages in April, a number eight times larger than Facebook's nearest competitor.
The new figures come from Google's DoubleClick Ad Planner, and rate the top 1,000 most-visited sites on the Web (excluding Google itself, YouTube and Gmail).
Yahoo came in second place after Facebook, with 490 million unique visitors, 31.8% of the world's Internet-connected population, and 70 billion page views. Next was Microsoft's Live.com, with 370 million unique visitors and 39 billion page views.
More: http://pcworld.com/article/197531/facebook_traffic_tops_google_reports.html
The new figures come from Google's DoubleClick Ad Planner, and rate the top 1,000 most-visited sites on the Web (excluding Google itself, YouTube and Gmail).
Yahoo came in second place after Facebook, with 490 million unique visitors, 31.8% of the world's Internet-connected population, and 70 billion page views. Next was Microsoft's Live.com, with 370 million unique visitors and 39 billion page views.
More: http://pcworld.com/article/197531/facebook_traffic_tops_google_reports.html
