Baidu, Tencent and Taobao Are China’s Top 3 Websites by Traffic

Posted by Joachim Bartels | May 3, 2012 | Baidu, China, E-Commerce, Search & Aggregation, Taobao.com, Tencent Holdings | 0 |

According to data released by Internet Society of China, the country’s top five websites in terms of unique visitors as of April 27, 2012 were Baidu, Tencent, Taobao, Sina and Sohu.

Baidu currently receives average of 584.92 billion unique visitors per week, while Tencent has an average of 465.04 billion unique visitors per week. Taobao gets 193.46 billion unique visitors per week, followed by Sina with 239.45 billion visitors per week. However, Taobao was ranked third, and Sina was ranked fourth.Sohu receives an average of 171.26 billion unique visitors per week. Source: Brightwire.com

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