In this data visualization video I look at the most popular websites based on monthly visits, the industry standard when comparing websites. It does not take into account page views nor unique visitors. Some of the data includes approximate numbers as the data available skipped years.



I also include screenshots of certain sites from the list as they looked during that particular year. The websites in the thumbnails include:


1993 Apple
First Apple website

1994 Amazon
Featured book search and shopping cart

1995 WebCrawler
Most popular search engine in the mid 90s

1996 Excite
Purchased WebCrawler after it's IPO that year

1997 BBC
Official launch followed by rebranding to BBCi

1998 Google
Official launch

1999 AOL
AOL Desktop kept users on AOL properties

2000 Apple
Steve Jobs regains leadership as CEO

2001 eBay
Had largest userbase of any e-commerce site

2002 Walmart
First version of the site had launched a year earlier

2003 MSN
MSN Explorer displaying MSN page

2004 Yahoo
Search and landing page
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