YouTube is about to pass Facebook as a second biggest website …

In a foe to be tip website, Facebook might concede a runner-up position to YouTube in a subsequent dual to 3 months, according to a new study common with CNBC by marketplace investigate organisation SimilarWeb.

The 5 websites receiving a many trade in a U.S. in a final several years have been Google, Facebook, YouTube, Yahoo and Amazon, in that order. However, Facebook has seen a serious decrease in monthly page visits, from 8.5 billion to 4.7 billion in a final dual years, according to a study. Although Facebook’s app trade has grown, it is not adequate to make adult for that loss, a investigate said.

Facebook took a marketplace decrease final month when it reported that a series of daily active users remained prosaic in North America in a second quarter, and declined in Europe.

However, Facebook’s has other properties to count on, such as WhatsApp and Instagram. “Yes, Facebook.com a website is down, though they consider of themselves some-more as a portfolio of products,” pronounced Stephen Kraus, arch of insights during SimilarWeb and author of a study.

YouTube, that is owned by Google primogenitor Alphabet, has seen increasing traffic, a investigate said. The app has also gifted in boost in viewership.

Yahoo is also staid to remove a position in a ranking. Amazon has already surpassed Yahoo during large spending months, including Dec 2017 and Jul 2018, when a e-commerce hulk hold a annual Prime Day.

The investigate projects that Amazon will take over Yahoo’s ranking in a subsequent dual to 3 months.

However, nothing of a bottom 4 of a tip 5 comes tighten to Google. Although it has seen some decrease in website trade interjection to app use and voice search, it saw approximately 15 billion visits in Jul 2018, a investigate said. The others were all next 5 billion, according to a report.