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Singapore-based ISP Vodien<\/a> published an infographic that lists the 100 highest-ranking websites<\/strong> in the U.S. by traffic, according to website analytics company Alexa<\/a>. There are over 1.1 billion websites on the Internet<\/strong>, but the majority of all traffic actually goes to a very small number of firms. Seven companies control 30%<\/strong> of the top 100 websites and the related web traffic.<\/p>\n The Visual Capitalist<\/em><\/a> points out that Google.com gets an astounding 28 billion visits per month. The next closest is also a Google-owned property, YouTube, which brings in 20.5 billion visits.<\/p>\n Facebook<\/strong> (FB<\/a>) controls two of the most popular websites; Facebook<\/a> (#3) and Instagram<\/a> (#13).<\/p>\n Jeff Bezo’s<\/a> firm Amazon<\/strong> (AMZN<\/a>) directs four popular websites;<\/p>\n The infographic says Verizon<\/a><\/strong> (VZ<\/a>) now controls the Huffington Post<\/a> (#49) and AOL<\/a> (#59) and will control Yahoo<\/a> (#5) and Tumlr<\/a> (#12) if the deal closes<\/a> in 2017 Q2.<\/p>\n Reddit.com<\/a><\/strong> comes in at #7 and Reddituploads.com is #61.<\/p>\n Online retailer eBay<\/a> <\/strong>comes in as the #8 website.<\/p>\n POTUS<\/a> favorite Twitter<\/a><\/strong> (TWTR<\/a>) is the 9th ranked website and t.co is #25.<\/p>\n Video streamer<\/a> Netflix<\/a><\/strong> comes in ranked #10 by Vodien.<\/p>\n Microsoft <\/strong>(MSFT<\/a>) controls 7 of the top 100 websites with recently purchased LinkedIn<\/a> at #11, Live.com<\/a> #14. so-so search engine Bing<\/a> is #17, followed by Office.com<\/a> (#23),\u00a0Microsoft Online Services <\/a>(#24), MSN<\/a> (#37), and Microsoft.com<\/a> (#41).<\/p>\n rb-<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n The consolidation of all of this web traffic is troubling. The current administration is going to allow online firms to sell<\/a> all the personal information they collect to the government, data aggregators or anybody else to make a buck.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ralph Bach<\/a>\u00a0has been in IT long enough to know better and has blogged from his\u00a0Bach Seat<\/a> about IT, careers, and anything else that catches his attention since 2005. You can follow him on LinkedIn<\/a>,\u00a0Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0and\u00a0Twitter<\/a>. Email the Bach Seat\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 30% of the Intern traffic goes to sites controlled by just 7 firms<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2990,2868,392,1023,32,1387,536,92,1890,82,421,533,964,60,2011,89,734],"class_list":["post-83009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-2990","tag-alphabet-inc","tag-amazon","tag-amzn","tag-business","tag-ebay","tag-goog","tag-google","tag-isp","tag-microsoft","tag-msft","tag-netflix","tag-reddit","tag-twitter","tag-twtr","tag-verizon","tag-vz"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83009"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130029,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83009\/revisions\/130029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Internet\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/internet1.png?resize=86%2C69&ssl=1\" "\\"Internet\\"")
<\/a>Not surprisingly Alphabet controls the most popular sites on the web, Google and YouTube. Surprisingly, Microsoft controls the most sites in the top 100. Redmond controls seven of the top web properties including recently purchased LinkedIn, Bing, and Microsoft.com. For a long time, MSFT\u2019s online efforts were a disaster<\/a>. That seems to have changed with Azure, but I still hate Bing. According to the Vodien infographic Alphabet<\/a> <\/strong>controls four of the most popular sites.<\/p>\n\n
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