Search engines have been the most visited sites on the Russian Internet for a long time. In the first place - Yandex, in the second - Google, in the third - mail.ru. Other sites that are familiar to almost every user of the Russian-speaking segment of the Internet also have considerable traffic. The top 10 is compiled according to the information from the HotLog consolidated rating, which is based on the data of both the counters of this system and statistics obtained from LiveInternet, [email protected], Rambler Top100, Openstat and the closed section of Yandex.
10. "Mamba"
The domain Mamba.ru was registered on May 2, 2000, but the dating site itself began operating in 2003. By October 2004, about 7,000 people registered on it every day, and the number of active users exceeded 1,000,000. At the same time, about 15,000 people were present on the platform for communication and flirting. At the moment, the dating service unites several independent portals (mamba.ru, "Dating.rambler.ru", etc.). Closed joint stock company "Mamba" acquired the Wamba brand in 2013, with the help of which the company entered the international level. On the Mamba.ru website, you can post your profile for free, use the advanced search (age, gender, location, habits, etc.), post your photos (including take part in the photo rating), exchange messages with other users, conduct diary. Among the paid features are the game "Leader", correspondence via SMS, creating a crawl line from photos, the ability to place a profile in the first place in the search, buying a VIP-status. There are 2,800-3500 unique users visiting the site daily (based on the LiveInternet counter), with 63 percent male and 37 percent female (based on AlexaRank).
9. "Kinopoisk"
On the open spaces of the Runet, the KinoPoisk website appeared in November 2003. Kinopoisk.ru is a large-scale project dedicated to films, TV series, actors, directors and everything related to cinema. In October 2013, KinoPoisk was acquired by Yandex. The site database contains not only descriptions of films, but also frames from them, photographs of actors, trailers and soundtracks. There is an opportunity to download wallpapers for your desktop, find out about movie news, read interviews with stars, see the schedule of screenings in cinemas, take part in competitions for moviegoers, sociological surveys. Every day the site is visited by 1.5 million people.
8. Rutracker.org
The site with this name began functioning in February 2010. Before that, the most popular Russian bittorrent tracker had the address torrents.ru. Any registered user can post content on the site by creating his own distribution. The tracker strictly monitors copyright compliance and quickly closes distributions that violate them. On "Rutrecker" you can find not only popular cinema novelties, but also scientific, fiction, audiobooks, documentaries and programs, as well as rarities, for example, original recordings of the voices of Mandelstam, Akhmatova, Yesenin, Pasternak. The site is visited by 1, 6-1, 8 million people daily.
7. "Yandex. Market"
Yandex. Market is one of the popular resources that allows users to quickly select a product according to the parameters they specify, see in which stores and at what price this product is sold, read customer reviews, professional and amateur reviews about a product or store. At the moment, the Yandex. Market database contains up-to-date information from 14,500 stores. The resource is visited daily by about 1.9 million people.
6. Gismeteo.ru
The Gismeteo.ru website is a convenient service to check the weather. At the moment, the user can choose any of more than 1,300 cities in Russia and more than 13,000 cities in the world. It is possible to view long-term forecasts (for the next 14 days), analyze weather maps of Russia and the world. Information on precipitation, pressure, air temperature, wind strength and geomagnetic conditions is updated on the site every day. Within 24 hours, 2, 5-2, 6 million people visit the site.
five. News and Answers mail.ru
Mail.ru unites more than 40 independent resources, the most popular of which (after the search service itself) are [email protected] and [email protected]. The news service offers users real-time updated news feeds, distributed according to regional and thematic (economics, politics, sports, culture, etc.) principle. [email protected] is a service of questions and answers, which was opened on August 21, 2006. During the first month of operation, registered users asked 200,000 questions and received 1,600,000 answers. [email protected] is visited daily by 2, 9 million people, [email protected] - 2, 6 million.
4. Avito.ru
The domain Avito.ru was registered in 2007. The site is a free classifieds board both from companies, firms and corporations, and from individual users. In 2010, the volume of transactions made with the help of Avito.ru amounted to about $ 3 million, which brought the owners of the resource about $ 1 million in profit. The site's main source of income is advertising sales and paid services. Users can submit a free ad to buy, sell, exchange or donate any product. Search for ads by region and subject has been implemented. The site ranks 1st in the category "Products and Services" of the LiveInternet service. According to statistics, 4, 5-4, 7 million users visit the site every day.
3. Yandex. Portal
Yandex. Portal is a collection of more than 40 different services. Users have the opportunity to find out the weather, stock quotes, and see a map of traffic jams in real time. The services of maps (together with panoramas from Yandex), news, and a poster are very popular. Yandex has its own electronic currency Yandex. Money, the social network Ya.ru, and also enables users to store and make files available for downloading to others (Yandex. Disk). About 30 million people use Yandex services every day.
2. Classmates
Odnoklassniki is a popular social network that allows you to find not only classmates, but also classmates, friends, relatives, chat with them, exchange photos and other content (video, music). The project was released on March 4, 2006. By 2013, the site had over 200 million registered users. About 45 million people communicate and share information on Odnoklassniki every day.
1. Vkontakte
The social network Vkontakte still holds the palm among the most visited sites on the Runet. The site was launched on October 10, 2006. Initially, it was an application to the forum for students of St. Petersburg State University, then VKontakte registration became open, and the site itself was overgrown with many functions (music, videos, photos, applications, etc.). The resource is visited by 60 million people daily.
