Everyday it seems Facebook keeps growing larger.
It's not quite as big as Google, but give it time.
The demographic resource, Alexa.
us reports that Facebook has become the second largest web site on the internet.
It bases this on the average number of visitors a web site receives daily in combination with the average page views daily.
Some people speculate that Facebook may outgrow Google, but it is unclear if this will happen since so many factors are involved.
What is apparent is that the number of people visiting Facebook has grown steadily over the past few months.
If you consult the graphs on Alexa.
us, you will see that the there has been a steady jump in the daily hits for the social media site.
By comparison the hits to Google appear to fluctuate between 40 and 44 percent of internet users.
Within the past few months the visitors to Facebook have remained constant, leading one to believe that if this trend continues there will be more internet users visiting Facebook than Google daily.
OK.
So Facebook is growing in terms of amount of users each day but which site is bigger when you think about how long each person spends on each site daily? When you compare the stats of each, Facebook comes out on top.
Its users stay on the site about a half an hour a day.
By comparison, Google users spend less than 15 minutes on the site per day.
This is not remarkable if you consider what each of the sites is designed for.
Search engines like Google are created to help people find other web sites.
Users stay on only long enough to find what they're looking for.
Social media sites are much different.
They have more things for people to see and do.
They can interact with their friends, check their messages, blog, post photos and more.
Some people spend hours each day on the site.
For now, Google remains the top dog on the internet but that may change in the future.
In time we'll know if people prefer what Facebook has to offer over the search engine giant.
It's not quite as big as Google, but give it time.
The demographic resource, Alexa.
us reports that Facebook has become the second largest web site on the internet.
It bases this on the average number of visitors a web site receives daily in combination with the average page views daily.
Some people speculate that Facebook may outgrow Google, but it is unclear if this will happen since so many factors are involved.
What is apparent is that the number of people visiting Facebook has grown steadily over the past few months.
If you consult the graphs on Alexa.
us, you will see that the there has been a steady jump in the daily hits for the social media site.
By comparison the hits to Google appear to fluctuate between 40 and 44 percent of internet users.
Within the past few months the visitors to Facebook have remained constant, leading one to believe that if this trend continues there will be more internet users visiting Facebook than Google daily.
OK.
So Facebook is growing in terms of amount of users each day but which site is bigger when you think about how long each person spends on each site daily? When you compare the stats of each, Facebook comes out on top.
Its users stay on the site about a half an hour a day.
By comparison, Google users spend less than 15 minutes on the site per day.
This is not remarkable if you consider what each of the sites is designed for.
Search engines like Google are created to help people find other web sites.
Users stay on only long enough to find what they're looking for.
Social media sites are much different.
They have more things for people to see and do.
They can interact with their friends, check their messages, blog, post photos and more.
Some people spend hours each day on the site.
For now, Google remains the top dog on the internet but that may change in the future.
In time we'll know if people prefer what Facebook has to offer over the search engine giant.