Wikipedia is the most visited page in the world, although Spain prefers sports websites

Oct. 7 (Portaltic/EP) –

Wikipedia It appears as the most visited page in the world, since it heads the list of most visited sites on the Internet in 43 countries distributed on different continents, but in Spain the reference website among users is the sports website Marca.com.

The web domain provider Hostinger has made A study in which he has detailed which are the web pages with the most visits by country, without taking into account the traffic generated by platforms such as Facebook Y Youtube.

Hostinger has indicated that it has excluded the Meta social network and Google’s streaming video service based on results obtained by Zyro in 2021, when it determined that Internet users spend 213.2 billion hours a year on Google, 12.6 billion hours on YouTube and 44.6 billion on Facebook.

First, it has been determined that Wikipedia is the most viewed page worldwide, followed by Twitter and Amazon, which rank second and third, respectively. In addition, among some of the global results, the study identifies that the bbc is the most visited news website in most countries (in the UK it tops the list of most viewed) and that Amazon is the most accessed page in the United States, Guinea and Burundi.

In this sense, the report points out that Amazon receives 2.66 billion visits in their country of origin each year and that around half of online shoppers go to this website from the beginning to carry out their purchases.

According to research, Wikipedia is the most visited website in 15 of the 38 European countries. Among them, the Netherlands, Germany, Ireland, France, Switzerland, Portugal, Italy, Bulgaria, Ukraine and Romania.

In this line, Hostinger has taken up another study carried out by the Pew Research Center, which revealed that the most popular pages written in English in this virtual and freely accessible encyclopedia tend to refer to contemporary events and films.

However, Wikipedia is not in the first place of the most viewed pages in Spainwhere what is read the most are sports and history, but it is Brand.com the website that tops the ranking. Other of the most viewed sites in this country are Shein (in the shopping section, which is also the most common in fashion-related searches), The Caixa (Banking) or straight to the palate (Gastronomy).

Wikipedia, the most viewed website globally, and Twitter also dominate in North America, although half of the nations in this country prioritize the use of forums and the so-called ‘fandoms’. Among them, Reddit (the most visited in Canada), Nintenderos (in Guatemala) and Sufficient Velocity (which interests a large part of the users in Puerto Rico).

In South America, the use of Wikipedia predominates, although the so-called culture of blogs is also widely accepted. This is the case of Bolivia, a country in which blogspot became a place of vindication for marginalized groups.

Electronic commerce also has a presence in this country, since MercadoLibre, a platform similar to eBay, in which sellers and buyers can connect through an auction network, is the most viewed page in Argentina.

On the contrary, in Venezuela the web page of the Bank of Venezuela is accessed more frequently, in Brazil Internet users first access the digital content company UOL and in Uruguay the Portal of Montevideo heads the list.

CURIOSITIES IN CERTAIN COUNTRIES

The study points out that there are countries that present certain peculiarities, such as the interest of the web pages of Middle East that have local domain. In this case, Israel and Uzbekistan appear as the only ones in the region whose most visited sites have local extensions (‘il’ and ‘uz’, respectively).

On the other hand, Hostiguer points out that although Twitter leads the countries of North and South America, Africa and the Middle East, it is Japan the second country with a higher number of active users.

In addition, Indonesia is the country that registers the highest number of visits to this social network, despite the fact that it has the eighth base of active users in the world. Twitter is also the most viewed page in Laos, despite the fact that it only receives 879,105 annual visits.

In Africa, for example, only a quarter of the population uses the Internet and the IMDb movie and series database is the most visited nationally in Liberia. In Ghana, on the contrary, the website of his university triumphs, receiving 6.28 million visits annually.