Over the past year and a half, you’ve probably spent most of your time in the real world in one place—home. But where have you spent it online? Zyro looked at SimilarWeb’s ranking of the 50 most popular websites in the US and calculated the time spent on them annually.
The top site is a familiar one to us all: Google. It’s the first place we turn to with a question, whether it’s minor or life-altering. Collectively, Americans spent 57.3 billion hours on Google per year. Its video equivalent, YouTube, comes in second with a combined 142.6 billion hours, which is how much time it can feel like you’ve spent there when you go down a video rabbit hole.
A deadly social-media duo comes next: Facebook and Twitter. Together, they’ve consumed 13.4 billion hours of Americans’ time. How much sanity has been lost to them, though, is incalculable.
Since you’re reading this online and quite possibly on your phone, it would probably be a good time to remind you to shut those tabs and step outside for a bit.
