Right, this comes as no surprise, but then again who still uses Yahoo! these days. ComScore — a common metric used to measure internet traffic — is showing off some impressive stats these days. In the month of November, for instance, Facebook overtook Yahoo! for the first time in worldwide traffic, with the social network nabbing 648 million unique visitors while the portal named after Gulliver’s Travels pulled in 630 million. That makes Facebook the third most visited site, right after Google and Microsoft’s sites, which grab up places one and two consistently.

One note about these ComScore statistics, just in case you’re wondering about that last one: it ‘groups’ sites together rather than counting individual URLS, so for instance, the Microsoft sites take the number two spot en masse. In terms of U.S. traffic, Facebook still trails Yahoo! a bit, with 152 million visitors and 181 million hits. Well, I believe Facebook will eventually overtake Yahoo! very soon, by looking at how the site grows so tremendously these few months.

SOURCE via Techcrunch