2012's Top 17 Websites of the World


#10 Amazon

Website: www.amazon.com

Global rank: 10

Last year's rank: 15

Global reach: 5.778%

Global page views: 0.59674%

Sites linking in to Amazon: 1,073,767

Amazon.com, the American multinational company is a place where customers from all around the world can find and discover almost everything they want to buy online. The site has numerous features and services including one-click buying, extensive customer and editorial product reviews, gift registries, gift certificates, wish lists, restaurant and movie listings, travel, and photo processing.

According to Alexa, relative to the overall population of internet users, the site's users are disproportionately Caucasian, and they are disproportionately moderately educated. Visitors to this site spend approximately 37 seconds on each page and a total of nine minutes on the site during each visit.

#9 QQ

Website: www.qq.com

Global rank: 9

Last year's rank: 10

Global reach: 7.506%

Global page views: 0.6388%

Sites linking in to qq: 429,006

qq.com is one of largest and most used internet service portal in china. The website which was founded in 1998 is owned by Tencent Holdings. Tencent's communications and information-sharing services include QQ.com, QQ Instant Messenger, QQ Mail, and search engine SOSO. All are linked up with heavily used features such as forums, chat rooms, and QQ Groups and so on.

According to Alexa, the site has attained a traffic rank of 2 among users in China, where its estimated 91% audience is located.