--- title: TikTok just beat Google at the internet - The Hustle description: TikTok took the top spot on Cloudflare’s website domain rankings. image: https://hs-sbup.thehustle.co/hubfs/The%20Hustle%20News/Assets/Images/281916602-News-Brief_2021-12-23T034340.823Z-scaled.webp --- # TikTok just beat Google at the internet ![Jacob Cohen](https://thehustle.co/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/IMG_5670-1-modified-768x768.png?width=48&height=48&name=IMG_5670-1-modified-768x768.png) [Jacob Cohen](https://hs-sbup.thehustle.co/author/jacob-cohen) [Jacob Cohen Twitter profile ](https://twitter.com/ImJacobCohen) Published: December 23, 2021 Updated: October 11, 2023 TikTok is popular, everyone knows that. But just *how* popular is it? ![TikTok just beat Google at the internet](https://hs-sbup.thehustle.co/hs-fs/hubfs/The%20Hustle%20News/Assets/Images/281916602-News-Brief_2021-12-23T034340.823Z-scaled.webp?width=595&height=400&name=281916602-News-Brief_2021-12-23T034340.823Z-scaled.webp) This week, cloud infrastructure company Cloudflare [released](https://blog.cloudflare.com/popular-domains-year-in-review-2021/) its Year in Review 2021 — the equivalent of Spotify Wrapped for web traffic data (how exciting). The kicker? Cloudflare’s report had TikTok shoot up from 7th place in 2020 to 1st place in 2021, dethroning Google of the top spot. The list comes with one major caveat, however. Google owns YouTube, but they’re counted separately on this list. 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