Worldometer

The website was founded by Andrey Alimetov, a Russian immigrant to the United States, in 2004. In 2011, it was voted as one of the best free reference websites by the American Library Association. The Spanish government used its figures to claim that it had carried out more tests than all but four other countries. In April 2020, editors of the English Wikipedia decided that Worldometer's COVID-19 figures are often unreliable and should not be cited in any pages related to the pandemic. ==Reception==

Edouard Mathieu, the data manager of Our World in Data, stated that "Their main focus seems to be having the latest number [of COVID-19 cases] wherever it comes from, whether it's reliable or not, whether it's well-sourced or not." the website was the #28 most visited website in the world in April 2020. A plurality (25.8%) of visitors came from the United States, followed by Japan (17.9%), India (8.67%), the United Kingdom (6.6%), South Korea (5.8%), Canada (5.18%), Germany (3.13%), Australia (2.49%), Poland (2.18%), France (1.73%), Turkey (1.66%), Brazil (1.65%) and Argentina (1.52%). By March 2023, according to traffic data from Similarweb, Worldometer had dropped to the 5,963rd global place. ==References==