THE TRAFFIC INDEX
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Top three by estimated monthly visitsYouTube
youtube.com| Compare | GLOBAL # | WEBSITE | CATEGORY | MONTHLY VISITS | MONTHLY CHANGE | Watch |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Search | 86.6B | − 0.42% | |||
| 02 | Entertainment | 30.4B | + 0.50% | |||
| 03 | Social | 11.5B | − 1.09% | |||
| 04 | Social | 7.6B | + 0.21% | |||
| 05 | AI | 5.6B | + 3.45% | |||
| 06 | Social | 4.6B | − 2.99% | |||
| 07 | Social | 4.2B | − 3.22% | |||
| 08 | Search | 3.8B | − 0.27% | |||
| 09 | Social | 3.8B | + 0.75% | |||
| 10 | Messaging | 3.7B | − 1.05% | |||
| 11 | Reference | 3.5B | + 1.01% | |||
| 12 | Search | 2.9B | + 0.16% | |||
| 13 | Shopping | 2.8B | + 1.01% | |||
| 14 | Search | 2.7B | − 4.04% | |||
| 15 | Search | 2.7B | − 3.35% | |||
| 16 | AI | 2.6B | − 2.59% | |||
| 17 | Social | 2B | + 0.14% | |||
| 18 | Search | 1.8B | − 2.04% | |||
| 19 | Entertainment | 1.6B | + 1.66% | |||
| 20 | Social | 1.6B | + 4.10% |
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Traffic is not an SEO score
These are rounded third-party estimates of total website visits, across channels. They are not unique visitors, organic clicks, backlink counts, or verified company analytics. Mobile app usage is excluded.
One source. One month. Twenty websites.
This local research preview uses the first 20 entries in Similarweb’s August 2026 published table. Global ranks remain unchanged when filtering. Categories are Rootstoq’s editorial groupings. The growth view sorts only these 20 sites. Rounded ties retain source order. No historical trend line is inferred from a single snapshot.
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