When Facebook passed MySpace in terms of global traffic in April 2008, it was a widely publicized and celebrated moment for Mark Zuckerberg's social network. Since then, Facebook has left several more web giants in the dust in terms of global traffic, and now trails only Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo in global popularity.
Facebook gained 24 million unique visitors in the month of June, giving it 340 million worldwide uniques, good enough to make it the fourth largest website in the world, according to comScore data. However, the social network is still a long way from catching the third-largest website, Yahoo, which attracts 241 million more monthly visitors than Facebook.
In the nearly 18 months since it surpassed MySpace, Facebook has shot past Amazon, eBay, and AOL, riding a steady wave of growth while those websites remained relatively static. The social network is the sixth-largest website in the U.S., with 77 million unique monthly visitors.
