2012's Top 17 Websites of the World


#14 Taobao

Website: www.taobao.com

Global rank: 14

Last year's rank: 17

Global reach: 4.177%

Global page views: 0.7545%

Sites linking in to Taobao: 191,151

Launched in 2003, Taobao Marketplace (www.taobao.com) is the leading consumer-to-consumer online marketplace in China. With more than 800 million product listings and more than 370 million registered users, Taobao Marketplace is the primary online shopping destination for the largest online population in the world and is the 14th most visited website in the world.

#13 Google India

Website: google.co.in

Global rank: 13

Last year's rank: 14

Global reach: 4.768%

Global page views: 0.59051%

Sites linking in to Google India: 45,053

Indian version of the popular search engine stands at the thirteenth position globally. The website, which offers interfaces in many local languages, is the most visited site in India. According to Alexa, the site appeals more to Asians; its audience also tends to consist of less affluent, childless men under the age of 35 who have postgraduate educations. Almost all visitors to it come from India, where it has attained a traffic rank of 1. Visitors to Google.co.in view an average of 12.7 unique pages per day, and the time spent in a typical visit to it is roughly eleven minutes, with 27 seconds spent on each page.