2012's Top 17 Websites of the World
#16 Yahoo! Japan
Website: yahoo.co.jp
Global rank: 16
Last year's rank: 12
Global reach: 3.705%
Global page views: 0.6453%
Sites linking in to Yahoo Japan: 144,604
Yahoo, the fading tech portal is still a hot destination for millions. Its Japanese version is the sixteenth most popular website in the world. Almost all visitors to this come from Japan, where it has attained a traffic rank of 1.
According to Alexa, the visitors spend roughly 30 seconds on each page and a total of fifteen minutes on the site during each visit.
#15 Sina
Website: sina.com.cn
Global rank: 15
Last year's rank: 16
Global reach: 4.931%
Global page views: 0.28853%
Sites linking in to Sina: 204,498
Sina is a Chinese online media company for Chinese communities around the world. The website, which has been online for more than thirteen years, is now the largest Chinese language infotainment portal. It is the fourth most visited website in China.