It is interesting to see how the internet landscape has been changing over the past 25 years. New top sites arised every few years while some former top sites almost appear to have been forgotten. Perhaps they still serve the same or more internet traffic, however, there has also been a significant increase in internet users and competing websites over the past 25 years.
According to the report, Facebook started by emphasising “Transparency” as the important part of Facebook. The goal of the report is as follows:
“To provide clarity around what people see in their Facebook News Feed, the different content types that appear in their Feed and the most-viewed domains, links, Pages and posts on the platform during the quarter.”
Here are some general takeaways:
- The content that’s seen by the most people isn’t necessarily the content that also gets the most engagement. Read more about how engagement — the likes, shares, and comments a Page or post generates — doesn’t equate to its reach, the number of people who actually see it.
- The majority (57%) of posts that people see is from their family and friends, in line with changes we made in the past so that content from friends and family makes up a larger portion of News Feed.
Posts From Friends and People Followed | Posts from Groups joined | Posts from Pages followed | Unconnected Posts | Other | Grand Total | |
post with a link | 2.30% | 1.00% | 6.60% | 2.80% | 0.20% | 12.90% |
post with no links | 54.60% | 18.20% | 7.70% | 5.20% | 1.30% | 87.10% |
Grand Total | 57.00% | 19.30% | 14.30% | 8.00% | 1.50% | 100% |
- Fewer than 13% of content views were on posts with links, and the top-viewed news domains account for only 0.31% of all content views in News Feed. Of those outlets, mainstream media dominate by views. We’ve explained before why only a small portion of News Feed is news.
- This report sheds light on the kinds of posts and Pages that are actually the most widely viewed — with many of the most-viewed Pages focused on sharing content about pets, cooking, family, and relatable viral content.
Most viewed domains
Facebook’s report provided a list of the top 20 domains by content views.
- youtube.com (181.3M views)
- amazon.com (134.6M views)
- unicef.org (134.4M views)
- gofundme.com (124.8M views)
- twitter.com (116.1M views)
- media1.tenor.co (115.6M views)
- m.tiktok.com (110.7M)
- open.spotify.com (93.0M)
- playeralumniresources.com (89.9M)
- abcnews.go.com (88.1M)
- linktr.ee (87.9M)
- dailymail.co.uk (86.5M)
- docs.google.com (85.8M)
- etsy.com (85.5M)
- nbcnews.com (83.1M)
- cnn.com (82.8M)
- google.com (78.6M)
- eventbrite.com (78.4M)
- cbsnews.com (77.1M)
- vimeo.com (76.9M)
Most viewed links
Facebook’s report has a list of the top 20 links.
Most viewed pages
Most viewed posts
Facebook’s report also posted the top 20 posts from the past quarter.
Pages with the most view do not imply that they have the most followers.
In some cases, it was noted that pages with over 50 million views only has slightly over 100k followers.
Source:
FB News Room
FB Q2 2021 Most Widely Viewed.PDF
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