compete and alexa ranks top 15 social networking sites this year

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Alexa and Compete published their list of most trafficked  social web sites  this year . Social networking sites led by Facebook and Twitter rules the  social box office with  compete ranking it 3 and Alexa ranking in 2. Alexa ranks websites in terms of web traffic, as a result the lower the alexa rank, the higher the traffic and vice versa.  Compete is a similar tool which ranks web sites  as per unique visitors.

Twitter and Linkedin make the number 2 and 3  most frequented social networks with a compete ranking it  21 and Alexa ranking it 7. Linkedin ranks  25 in compete and 9 in Alexa

comparison of online user engagement across twitter and Instagram

Out of Instagram's  estimated 300m monthly active users around  70% of these people are outside the US.Instagram users  post 70m photos and hit the ‘like’ button 2.5billion times. (according to Instagram's own blog)

However in terms of engagement and bounce rate Instagram score way ahead of  any other social network. And it actually beats twitter hands down..Brands using Instagram are seeing higher levels of engagement than on Twitter, according to data from Socialbakers.

Focusing purely on the top 25 most engaging brands, the average post engagement rate is 3.31% on Instagram compared to 0.07% on Twitter.