Google has given its mighty calculators a bit of a spin and released a list of the top 1,000 websites on the planet.
The rankings were calculated by Unique Visitors (users), as measured by Ad Planner, with Google modestly leaving themselves off the list (they would normally occupy the #1 slot).
Facebook rules
In their absence, the social networking site Facebook bags the top slot, followed by yahoo.com, live.com, wikipedia.org, msn.com and microsoft.com making up the top six.
Twitter can only manage a #18 slot, while Apple are even further down the list in the #27 position.
The current top 25 websites are reproduced below – click here to see the full list of 1,000 sites.
Stat attack
Clicking on each link serves up loads more information about each site – for example, Facebook had an estimated 1.2bn unique users worldwide last month, and served a mind boggling 570bn page views.
And as our Cilla would say, that’s a lorra lorra pages, chuck.
| Rank | Site | Category | Unique Visitors (users) | Reach | Page Views | Has Advertising |
|---|
| 1 |  facebook.com |
Social Networks | 540,000,000 | 35.2% | 570,000,000,000 | Yes |
| 2 | yahoo.com |
Web Portals | 490,000,000 | 31.8% | 70,000,000,000 | Yes |
| 3 | live.com |
Search Engines | 370,000,000 | 24.1% | 39,000,000,000 | Yes |
| 4 | wikipedia.org |
Dictionaries & Encyclopedias | 310,000,000 | 20% | 7,900,000,000 | No |
| 5 | msn.com |
Web Portals | 280,000,000 | 18.1% | 11,000,000,000 | Yes |
| 6 | microsoft.com |
Software | 230,000,000 | 14.8% | 3,300,000,000 | Yes |
| 7 | blogspot.com |
Blogging Resources & Services | 230,000,000 | 14.7% | 4,400,000,000 | Yes |
| 8 | baidu.com |
Web Portals | 230,000,000 | 15% | 27,000,000,000 | Yes |
| 9 | qq.com |
Email & Messaging | 170,000,000 | 11.1% | 25,000,000,000 | Yes |
| 10 | mozilla.com |
Internet Clients & Browsers | 140,000,000 | 9.2% | 2,100,000,000 | No |
| 11 | sina.com.cn |
Web Portals | 130,000,000 | 8.4% | 3,600,000,000 | Yes |
| 12 | wordpress.com |
Blogging Resources & Services | 120,000,000 | 7.7% | 1,200,000,000 | Yes |
| 13 | bing.com |
Search Engines | 110,000,000 | 7% | 2,700,000,000 | Yes |
| 14 | adobe.com |
Programming | 110,000,000 | 6.9% | 1,000,000,000 | Yes |
| 15 | 163.com |
Web Portals | 98,000,000 | 6.3% | 2,700,000,000 | Yes |
| 16 | taobao.com |
Shopping | 98,000,000 | 6.3% | 10,000,000,000 | No |
| 17 | soso.com |
Entertainment | 97,000,000 | 6.3% | 1,400,000,000 | No |
| 18 | twitter.com |
Email & Messaging | 96,000,000 | 6.2% | 5,400,000,000 | No |
| 19 | youku.com |
Video Clips & Movie Downloads | 89,000,000 | 5.8% | 1,700,000,000 | Yes |
| 20 | ask.com |
Search Engines | 88,000,000 | 5.7% | 1,700,000,000 | Yes |
| 21 | sohu.com |
Web Portals | 82,000,000 | 5.3% | 1,900,000,000 | Yes |
| 22 | amazon.com |
Shopping | 74,000,000 | 4.8% | 3,300,000,000 | Yes |
| 23 | windows.com |
Windows | 74,000,000 | 4.8% | 490,000,000 | No |
| 24 | ebay.com |
Auctions | 74,000,000 | 4.8% | 9,400,000,000 | Yes |
| 25 | yahoo.co.jp |
Web Portals | 72,000,000 | 4.7% | 27,000,000,000 | Yes |
