• Softpedia , Monday, August 22, 2011 12:29 PM

In July, 162 million Americans visited Facebook at least once -- up from 160.2 million in June, according to new comScore data. "It's an impressive figure since Facebook is already used by a big percentage of US internet users," Softpedia writes regarding the additional million unique visitors. "That said, it still has some work ahead of it before it can claim the top spot in the US, which now belongs to Google." Indeed, 182 million people in the US visited at least one Google site in the last month, according to comScore. As always, that figure includes YouTube visitors.

Most YouTube users do, however, visit at least one other Google site. Yahoo, meanwhile still attracted a healthy 177 million visitors, while Microsoft accounted for 174 million. In each cases, as Softpedia notes, "all properties belonging to the two companies were counted." Going forward, the challenge for each top Web property is maintaining healthy growth. Adds Softpedida: "Even Facebook, which had a huge growth spurt for a few years, is finding it hard to grow past its current size in the US."

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