#8 Twitter

Website: www.twitter.com

Global rank: 8

Last year's rank: 9

Global reach: 8.983%

Global page views: 0.4971%

Sites linking in to Twitter: 5,746,990

Twitter, the social networking and micro blogging site is the eighth most popular website in the world. Its users spread all over the world. The site has been online for more than twelve years. Twitter's visitors spend roughly eight minutes per visit and 46 seconds per page view.  

#7 Windows Live

Website: www.live.com

Global rank: 7

Last year's rank: 8

Global reach: 10.191%

Global page views: 0.6783%

Sites linking in to Live: 151,134

The Microsoft owned Windows Live, a collective set of services, most of them based on web is the seventh most popular website in the world.

According to Alexa, about 4% of visits to this site are referred by search engines. Approximately 17% of visitors to the site come from the US, where it is located. It is launched in 2005.