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New Report From Fasthosts.uk Highlights Busiest Streaming Websites

(24 Aug 2020)

Today, we spend a significant amount of our waking hours online, but which websites and streaming services have us repeatedly coming back for more? A new report by Fasthosts.co.uk reveals the busiest websites and apps on the internet; specifically in the streaming industry.

Netflix is the most visited streaming service, seeing their busiest month during covid

Netflix has been revealed as the busiest streaming website gaining a staggering 2.5 billion monthly visits.  

The second most visited website is YouTube following close behind with 900 million.

The top 5 sites can be seen below:

 

Sector

Company name

Oct-19

Nov-19

Dec-19

Jan-20

Feb-20

Mar-20

Video / streaming

Netflix

2,114,000,000

1,969,000,000

2,265,000,000

2,388,000,000

2,003,000,000

2,525,000,000

Video / streaming

YouTube

603,000,000

602,500,000

621,000,000

607,500,000

592,000,000

922,500,000

Film, TV database

IMDb

457,500,000

452,500,000

501,500,000

502,000,000

430,500,000

460,000,000

Video / streaming

dailymotion.com

254,500,000

253,000,000

262,000,000

247,500,000

214,500,000

237,000,000

Video / streaming

hulu.com

206,500,000

212,000,000

210,000,000

209,000,000

194,000,000

231,000,000

Video / streaming

nicovideo.jp

200,500,000

189,000,000

205,000,000

209,000,000

191,000,000

200,500,000

Video / streaming

xfinity.com

183,000,000

184,500,000

185,500,000

163,000,000

149,000,000

166,000,000

Video / streaming

primevideo.com

97,300,000

109,000,000

135,000,000

138,500,000

132,500,000

192,000,000

Video / streaming

dmkt-sp.jp

80,300,000

81,400,000

87,500,000

94,500,000

87,500,000

91,000,000

 

The full report can be seen at: https://www.fasthosts.co.uk/web-hosting/busiest-websites

Sources:

Data was collected using the following sources:

  1. https://www.similarweb.com/
  2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_popular_websites

Methodology:

  • Using Similar Web data, we collected the website traffic statistics from October 2019 – March 2020, then worked out the average monthly, weekly, daily, hourly visits as well as the average visits per minute and second.

*The data is not based on unique users