Cloudfare reporting TikTok saw more traffic than Google.com in 2021

Is this the first time a non-American company has been the topmost domain? This is a watershed moment in the history of the Internet, in my opinion.

It also shows you how destructive the last several years have been for some American tech companies. YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and Snap should be embarrassed by the innovation TikTok has shown. The tech that enables collaborative sea shanty videos is simple, yet so great. The American companies had over a decade lead time and squandered it with copyright strikes and focusing on how to divide people into marketing segments to "maximize profit" with targeted ads. (The side effect of which is a country split into nearly warring factions and a everlasting pandemic fueled by anti-vax conspiracy theories.)

TikTok focused on bringing people together, and have been rightfully rewarded for their effort. Wish they weren't a Chinese spyware company under the ultimate control of the CCP, but ignoring that "minor" issue, TikTok has been killing it.

A few observations:

- TikTok surpassing Google.com to place #1

- YouTube.com + Google.com still dominates

- for all its traffic, Twitter looks like the odd one out in terms of actual returns as a business (profit, stock cap, etc)

For those like me who were wondering how Cloudflare gets this data,

> our ranking is derived from our public DNS resolver 1.1.1.1 and so it's not related to the number of unique users or visitors it gets per month

It's in the middle of the content.