

Google was the most-visited site throughout most of North America, Europe, south Asia and Australasia, while Facebook predominates in the Spanish-speaking parts of the America, the Middle East and North Africa.īut beyond those two Internet giants, other companies - often with overt or implicit aid from their national governments - have carved out their own bastions.

This map, developed by two researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute, uses Internet traffic data from Alexa to determine each country’s most-visited website each country is scaled to reflect how many Internet users it has. But while Google and Facebook dominate in most of the world, several countries - notably China, Russia and their neighbors - have resisted their hegemony.

Search engines and social networks rule the online world pretty much everywhere you look.
