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The Wall Street Journal broke the news based off of comScore data that Google reached over one billion visitors for the month of May.
This is a huge number, a number Facebook was expected to reach first but did not.
As the WSJ explained:
Over the past year, Google’s unique visitors per month have increased 8.4% to just over one billion. During the same period, Microsoft maintained the No. 2 position with 905 million unique visitors in May, up around 15%, while Facebook’s count surged by 30% to about 714 million visitors. In May, Yahoo saw 689 million visitors, up 10.8% over the past year, though it was surpassed by Facebook in October.
This includes all Google sites, including Google.com, YouTube.com, Gmail, Orkut and all their properties.
Here is a chart posted by Search Engine Land.
That is a lot of traffic, but in terms of time spent on the site, Facebook beats.
Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld and Google Blogoscoped Forums.
Comments:
Keith Brown
06/23/2011 12:39 pm
Whew. #jobsecurity
Ian Goodall
06/23/2011 12:41 pm
With that many unique visitors it's easy to see why Google wants to break into the social networking market.
Guest
06/23/2011 02:57 pm
Remove Youtube and Gmail and see what's left
Eitjuh
06/23/2011 04:03 pm
Remove Google and see what's left.