Top 20 Most Popular eCommerce Sites

List according to Statista

: Jan 27, 2019    : Milan Anshuman

E-commerce websites or stores are undoubtedly the future of our shopping. This rise in online shopping sites is the reason why people are moving towards online shopping rather than shops. In this post we have listed top 10 eCommerce websites in the world in no order. So, if you are looking to start your own eCommerce business, you can take inspiration from some of the leading eCommerce website in the world.

Today, we have some of the best online shopping sites all around the world. The different online websites offer products of a different category such as clothes, electronics, optical, footwear, etc. Go online, and you will see so many different e-commerce websites catering to your different needs.

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Amazon is considered the world’s top e-commerce platform hence earns a spot in the top 10 e-commerce websites in the world. People love shopping on this website mainly because of the reason that the interface is simple, easy checkout, different payment methods, and have great discounts and offers.

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Walmart malls are mainly popular shopping destination in the United States of America. However, now it has become one of the top 10 e-commerce websites in the world. It offers home appliances, toys, electronics, fashion accessories, sports, gifts, crafts, grocery, etc. Walmart also provides its customers with discount coupons, shipping, and interesting discounts on special days. It has a user-friendly interface which makes the whole shopping process easier and fun.

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Alibaba is one of the top 10 e-commerce websites in the world that is primarily used for trading for buyers and sellers around the world. It is especially popular in Asia, and the concept behind this website is to generate an easy connection between the buyers and suppliers.

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Flipkart is most popular in India and other Asian regions. While its strength in offering books at a discount was its USP at one point of time, it has since diversified into various segments, with electronics and gadgets forming a chunk of it. Flipkart has a vast collection of cellphones, cameras, laptops, games, etc. and they offer most of their products at discounts.

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One of the big names internationally in the e-commerce segment, Ebay. in is the Indian arm of Ebay.com. This is the kind of marketplace where you will find any kind of product thanks to their tie-ups with resellers. You can find anything from an 19th century currency notes to 55-inch 3D LED TVs to slightly older models of Mercedes and Audi!

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Snapdeal is an online marketplace headquartered in New Delhi, It is India’s Largest Online Shopping marketplace great range of products, best prices and free shipping.

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Myntra is an Indian fashion e-commerce company headquartered in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. The company was founded in 2007 to sell personalized gift items. In May 2014, Myntra.com was acquired by Flipkart.

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Jabong.com is an Indian fashion and lifestyle e-commerce portal founded by Praveen Sinha, Lakshmi Potluri, Arun Chandra Mohan and Manu Kumar Jain. The portal sells apparel, footwear, fashion accessories, beauty products, fragrances, home accessories and other fashion and lifestyle products.

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Instagram is a photo and video-sharing social networking service owned by Facebook, Inc. It was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, and launched in October 2010 exclusively on iOS. The site has more than 400 million active users and is now owned by Facebook. Many of its users use it to post information about travel, fashion, food, art and similar subjects. The platform is also distinguished by its unique filters together with video and photo editing features. Almost 95 percent of Instagram users also use Facebook.

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Tumblr is one of the most difficult to use social networking platforms, but it’s also one of the most interesting sites. The platform allows several different post formats, including quote posts, chat posts, video and photo posts as well as audio posts, so you are never limited in the type of content that you can share. Like Twitter, reblogging, which is more like retweeting, is quick and easy. The social networking website was founded by David Karp in February 2007 and currently hosts more than 200 million blogs.

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Capitalizing upon human curiosity is an ingenious idea that would lead to the creation and launch of Quora in June, 2009. The website, co-founded by two former Facebook employees, Charlie Cheever and Adam D’Angelo now claims that it received more than 80 million monthly unique visitors, with half of them coming from the U.S. So far, the question-and-answer website has managed to raise $141 in venture capital funds and while it doesn’t look ready to go public yet, it’s definitely a company to watch.

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Flickr, pronounced “Flicker,” is an online image and video hosting platform that was created by the then Vancouver-based Ludicorp on February 10, 2004, and later acquired by Yahoo in 2005. The platform is popular with users who share and embed photographs. As of October last year, Flickr had more than 112 million users and had its footprint in more than 63 countries. An average of a million photos are shared daily on Flickr.

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This is a social news and entertainment networking website where registered users can submit content such as direct links and text posts. Users are also able to organize and determine their position on the site’s pages by voting submissions up or down. Submissions with the most positive votes appear in the top category or main page. Reddit was founded by University of Virginia roommates Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman on June 23, 2005. A decade later, the site boasts more than 36 million registered accounts and 231 million monthly visitors.

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This instant messaging network is similar to WhatsApp and is available across platforms in more than eight languages. However, Telegram has always focused more on the privacy and security of the messages you send over the internet by using its platform. So, it empowers you to send messages that are encrypted and self-destructive. This encryption feature has only just been made available for WhatsApp, whereas Telegram has always provided it. Telegram has approximately 100 million active users per month.

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StumbleUpon

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StumbleUpon (Now Mix) is a discovery engine that finds and recommends content for its users. Come June 30, 2018, it will be moving to Mix. More than 25 million people use StumbleUpon for entertainment and information. In addition, more than 80,000 publishers, brands, and other marketers have used StumbleUpon’s Paid Discovery platform to promote their businesses. StumbleUpon was owned by eBay from May 2007 to April 2009, when Garrett Camp, Geoff Smith and several investors bought it back. It is now an independent, investor-backed startup once again.

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This is a social bookmarking web service for discovering, storing and sharing web bookmarks. The site was founded by Peter Gadjokov and Joshua Schachter in 2003 and acquired in 2005 by Yahoo. By the end of 2008, Delicious claimed that it had bookmarked 180 million URLs and acquired more than 5.3 million users. The service was later sold to AVOS Systems in April 2011 who later sold it to Science Inc. In January this year, Delicious Media said that it had acquired the service.

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Founded more than a decade ago (November 2004), Digg is a news aggregator with a curated front page that selects stories specifically for the Internet audience, The topics vary widely from trending political issues to science to viral Internet issues and anything in between. Digg supports sharing of content to other social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. In 2015, the company claimed that it had about 11 million active monthly users.

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Viber is a Voice over IP (VoIP) and instant messaging app for mobile devices that was developed and released by Viber Media on December 2, 2010. The app also allows for the exchange of audio, video and images between users. As of April 2014, Viber had accrued close to 600 million registered users and 230 monthly active users.

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Skype, owned by Microsoft, is one of the most popular communication-based social networking platforms. It allows you to connect with people through voice calls, video calls (using a webcam) and text messaging. You can even conduct group conference calls. And, the best part is that Skype-to-Skype calls are free and can be used to communicate with anyone, located in any part of the world, over the internet.

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This is an all-in-one communications app for messaging and calling (similar to WhatsApp) that enables you to connect with the people of your choice. It was also developed by Tencent in China and can easily work alongside QQ. As per the BI intelligence report, the number of WeChat users are fast catching up with the number of WhatsApp users.

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Milan Anshuman is a travel blogger at Roadway Star. He is passionate about travelling across entire India, specially in undiscovered places, apart from travelling he loves to shoot nature and wildlife beauties, waterfall, mountain series and beaches.

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