These are the most popular internet services of 2025, as AI gains traction

ChatGPT is already among the internet's 40 astir fashionable destinations, highlighting the explosive maturation of generative artificial quality among online users, according to a caller study from Cloudflare that ranked the astir wide utilized websites.

"Google, Facebook and Instagram remained ascendant successful our wide rankings, but the year's defining communicative was generative AI's accelerated maturation," João Tomé, a writer and elder information exertion astatine Cloudlfare, said successful a blog post.

ChatGPT, launched by OpenAI successful November 2022, had 700 cardinal progressive users arsenic of September, according to the San Francisco-based company.

Cloudflare, a supplier of unreality computing services, reported a 19% summation successful worldwide net postulation this twelvemonth arsenic radical trust much connected exertion for regular connection and entertainment.

To find the rankings, Cloudflare utilized aggregated information from its Domain Name System, which helps way postulation to its customers' websites by converting domain names to IP addresses.  

Read connected for Cloudflare's rankings of the apical net services of 2025.

Top Internet sites overall

Google (including services specified arsenic Google Maps and Google Calendar) remains the astir fashionable service, holding the No. 1 spot since 2022, according to Cloudflare. Facebook came successful astatine No. 2, wherever it has ranked for 3 consecutive years.

TikTok, the fashionable video platform, fell from No. 4 successful 2024 to No. 8 this year, with the temporary ineligible ban successful the U.S hurting its show successful 2025, Cloudflare said.

1. Google
2. Facebook
3. Apple 
4. Microsoft 
5. Instagram 
6. Amazon Web Services
7. YouTube 
8. TikTok 
9. Amazon
10. WhatsApp

Top societal media sites

Meta-owned Facebook remains the astir wide utilized societal media tract globally. It ranks No. 2 successful the U.S., down Alphabet's YouTube, with implicit 70% of U.S. adults reporting they usage Facebook, according to recent Pew Research.

1. Facebook
2. Instagram 
3. TikTok 
4. Snapchat 
5. Linkedin 
6. X (formerly Twitter) 
7. Kwai 
8. Discord 
9. Pinterest
10. Reddit

Top generative AI services 

OpenAI's ChatGPT maintained its presumption astatine the apical of the AI list, though Cloudflare said the level is facing mounting contention from rival chatbots specified arsenic Anthropic's Claude, Perplexity and Google Gemini.

1. ChatGPT (OpenAI)
2. Claude (Anthropic)
3. Perplexity 
4. Gemini (Google)
5. Character.AI 
6. GitHub Copilot 
7. Windsurf AI 
8. QuillBot 
9. Grok (xAI)
10. DeepSeek 

Top e-commerce services

A notable alteration successful the e-commerce class this twelvemonth is the quality of 2 Asia-based companies. Shopee, an e-commerce level that launched successful Singapore successful 2015, landed astatine No. 2, portion China's Temu ranked No. 3.

1. Amazon
2. Shopee 
3. Temu 
4. Shopify
5. Taobao 
6. eBay 
7. Alibaba 
8. Shein
9. Mercado Libre
10. AliExpress 

Top quality services 

Brazilian media institution Globo, which spans TV, vigor and print, took the No. 1 spot successful the quality services category, CloudFlare found.

1. Globo
2. ESPN 
3. BBC 
4. NY Times 
5. CNN 
6. Fox News 
7. Yahoo Finance
8. Google News
9. NewsBreak 
10. Times of India 

Edited by Alain Sherter