The new figures come from Google's , and rate the top 1,000 most-visited sites on the Web (excluding Google itself, YouTube and Gmail).
Yahoo came in second place after Facebook, with 490 million unique visitors, 31.8% of the world's Internet-connected population, and 70 billion page views. Next was Microsoft's Live.com, with 370 million unique visitors and 39 billion page views.
The most popular sites after Live.com were Wikipedia, MSN.com, Microsoft.com, Blogspot.com, Baidu.com, GG.com and Mozilla.com.
The numbers show that Facebook is the undisputed king of social networking, with rival Twitter attracting a comparatively modest 96 million unique visitors and 5.4 billion page views in April 2010.