# Most visited site by country

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**Created:** [October 5, 2013, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-visited-site-by-country/670459 "2013-10-05T20:46:02Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 5, 2013, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-visited-site-by-country/670459/1 "2013-10-05T20:46:02Z")

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[Maybe not too surprising by and large, but maybe a couple of surprises.](http://www.businessinsider.com/the-worlds-most-popular-web-sites-2013-10)

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> A map developed by two [Oxford Internet Institute](http://geography.oii.ox.ac.uk/2013/09/age-of-internet-empires/) researchers uses Internet traffic data from [Alexa](http://www.alexa.com/help/traffic-learn-more) to determine each country’s most-visited website, [Drew DeSilver of Pew Research reports](http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/10/04/chart-of-the-week-the-worlds-most-popular-web-sites/).  
> The countries look funny because each one is scaled to number of Internet users it has.  
> The results are fascinating: Google dominates most of North America, Europe, south Asia and the south Pacific while Facebook wins out in the Spanish-speaking parts of the America, the Middle East, and North Africa.