Top 15 Most Popular Social Networking Sites

by Maggie Langley | Oct 7, 2011 | Facebook, Google+

This blog post was first published back in 2011. Compare the stats below with the current top 15 social media sites

It’s interesting to see how things have changed. Lots of these didn’t make it! And nobody really says “social networking” anymore. Now it’s “social media” or even “socials.”

ORIGINAL 2011 ARTICLE

Facebook on its way out? I don’t think so.

MySpace dead? Plenty of people seem to still be using it.

Google+ on the rise. They’re doing well considering they’ve only recently moved away from their invitation only registrations, but they still have a loooong way to go to catch up to Facebook.

1 | Facebook
2 – eBizMBA Rank | 700,000,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 3 – Compete Rank | 2 – Quantcast Rank | 2 – Alexa Rank.
Most Popular Social Networking Websites | Updated 10/5/2011 | eBizMBA

2 | Twitter
15 – eBizMBA Rank | 200,000,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 30 – Compete Rank | 5 – Quantcast Rank | 9 – Alexa Rank.
Most Popular Social Networking Websites | Updated 10/5/2011 | eBizMBA

3 | LinkedIn
33 – eBizMBA Rank | 100,000,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 57 – Compete Rank | 26 – Quantcast Rank | 17 – Alexa Rank.
Most Popular Social Networking Websites | Updated 10/5/2011 | eBizMBA

4 | MySpace
50 – eBizMBA Rank | 80,500,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 26 – Compete Rank | 44 – Quantcast Rank | 79 – Alexa Rank.
Most Popular Social Networking Websites | Updated 10/5/2011 | eBizMBA

5 | Ning
143 – eBizMBA Rank | 60,000,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 180 – Compete Rank | 120 – Quantcast Rank | 128 – Alexa Rank.
Most Popular Social Networking Websites | Updated 10/5/2011 | eBizMBA

6 | Google Plus+
148 – eBizMBA Rank | 32,000,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | *NA* – Compete Rank | *NA* – Quantcast Rank | *NA* – Alexa Rank.
Most Popular Social Networking Websites | Updated 10/5/2011 | eBizMBA

7 | Tagged
225 – eBizMBA Rank | 25,000,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 382 – Compete Rank | 151 – Quantcast Rank | 141 – Alexa Rank.
Most Popular Social Networking Websites | Updated 10/5/2011 | eBizMBA

8 | orkut
401 – eBizMBA Rank | 15,500,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | *570* – Compete Rank | *540* – Quantcast Rank | 93 – Alexa Rank.
Most Popular Social Networking Websites | Updated 10/5/2011 | eBizMBA

9 | hi5
479 – eBizMBA Rank | 11,500,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 983 – Compete Rank | 392 – Quantcast Rank | 62 – Alexa Rank.
Most Popular Social Networking Websites | Updated 10/5/2011 | eBizMBA

10 | myyearbook
617 – eBizMBA Rank | 7,450,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 522 – Compete Rank | 293 – Quantcast Rank | 1,036 – Alexa Rank.
Most Popular Social Networking Websites | Updated 10/5/2011 | eBizMBA

11 | Meetup
635 – eBizMBA Rank | 7,200,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 644 – Compete Rank | 732 – Quantcast Rank | 528 – Alexa Rank.
Most Popular Social Networking Websites | Updated 10/5/2011 | eBizMBA

12 | Badoo
653 – eBizMBA Rank | 7,100,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 1,346 – Compete Rank | 489 – Quantcast Rank | 125 – Alexa Rank.
Most Popular Social Networking Websites | Updated 10/5/2011 | eBizMBA

13 | bebo
655 – eBizMBA Rank | 7,000,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 944 – Compete Rank | 434 – Quantcast Rank | 588 – Alexa Rank.
Most Popular Social Networking Websites | Updated 10/5/2011 | eBizMBA

14 | mylife
865 – eBizMBA Rank | 5,400,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 118 – Compete Rank | 688 – Quantcast Rank | 1,789 – Alexa Rank.
Most Popular Social Networking Websites | Updated 10/5/2011 | eBizMBA

15 | friendster
955 – eBizMBA Rank | 4,900,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 1,920 – Compete Rank | 643 – Quantcast Rank | 301 – Alexa Rank.
Most Popular Social Networking Websites | Updated 10/5/2011 | eBizMBA

These are the 15 Most Popular Social Networking Sites as derived from eBizMBA Rank which is a constantly updated average of each website’s Alexa Global Traffic Rank, and U.S. Traffic Rank from both Compete and Quantcast. “*#*” Denotes an estimate for sites with limited Compete or Quantcast data. Last Updated: October 5, 2011