WeChat
WeChat (or Weixin in Chinese) is a Chinese instant messaging, social media, and mobile payment app that has evolved into a super-app combining communication, commerce, and everyday services.
It supports text, voice, and video messaging, group chats, public accounts, and the Moments social feed, includes an integrated digital wallet and payments through WeChat Pay, and hosts mini-programs and third-party services within its ecosystem.
According to our data, WeChat is the 6th most popular instant messaging app on the web.
It has 3.4% of the instant messaging market share and is detected on 0.3% of all websites.
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WeChat is available for free.
📊 Rankings and Market Share
- Instant Messaging
- Rank: 6
- Market share: 3.4%
- Social Media
- Rank: 17
- Market share: 0.5%
🏆 WeChat Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in Hong Kong in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in China in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in China in the Social Media category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Hong Kong in the Social Media category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Cambodia in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in South Africa in the Instant Messaging category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Taiwan in the Instant Messaging category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in the Netherlands in the Instant Messaging category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in the Philippines in the Instant Messaging category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Cambodia in the Social Media category.
⚡ Sites Using WeChat
We have data on 9,405 websites that use the WeChat instant messaging app. Here is a list of some of the top ranked ones.
The highest rated site using WeChat is roblox.com.
| # | Website | Rank | Country | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | #224 | United States | English | |
| 2 | #2,049 | China | Chinese | |
| 3 | #3,638 | United Kingdom | English | |
| 4 | #5,356 | Russia | Russian | |
| 5 | #5,709 | China | Chinese | |
| 6 | #6,633 | Australia | English | |
| 7 | #7,548 | Italy | Italian | |
| 8 | #8,962 | China | Chinese | |
| 9 | #9,129 | China | Chinese | |
| 10 | #9,434 | China | Chinese | |
| 11 | #10,007 | Australia | English | |
| 12 | #11,955 | China | Chinese | |
| 13 | #13,142 | China | Chinese | |
| 14 | #13,240 | China | Chinese | |
| 15 | #13,466 | Belgium | British English | |
| 16 | #13,768 | United Kingdom | English | |
| 17 | #14,088 | Hong Kong | English | |
| 18 | #14,162 | China | Chinese | |
| 19 | #14,209 | American English | ||
| 20 | #15,089 | Hong Kong | English |
📈 Usage Statistics
Most of the sites that use WeChat:
- are located in China
- have content in Chinese
- use the .com domain extension
- fall into the Business category.
Most of the sites using WeChat are from China and Hong Kong.
- China 75%
- Hong Kong 12.9%
- United States 4.7%
- Netherlands 0.7%
- Cambodia 0.7%
- South Africa 0.6%
- Taiwan 0.5%
- Singapore 0.5%
- Philippines 0.4%
- Other 4%
Most WeChat users speak Chinese or English.
- Chinese 93.1%
- English 5.7%
- Japanese 0.2%
- Russian 0.1%
- German 0.1%
- French 0.1%
- Italian 0.08%
- Indonesian 0.07%
- Korean 0.05%
- Other 0.5%
The WeChat instant messaging app is especially popular on .com and .cn top-level domains.
- .com 69.1%
- .cn 12.1%
- .com.cn 4.4%
- .net 3.7%
- .edu.cn 2.7%
- .gov.cn 1.3%
- .org 1.3%
- .org.cn 1%
- .cc 0.6%
- Other 3.8%
The primary market segments for websites utilizing WeChat include business, education and reference, and Internet services.
- Business 24.7%
- Education/Reference 17%
- Internet Services 7.3%
- Marketing/Merchandising 5%
- General News 4.4%
- Blogs/Wiki 4%
- Government/Military 3.3%
- Games 3%
- Software/Hardware 2.8%
- Other 28.5%
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What is the company behind WeChat?
WeChat is owned by Tencent Holdings Ltd., headquartered in Shenzhen, China.
Is WeChat free?
Yes, it is a free instant messaging app.
Which country uses WeChat the most?
The majority of WeChat users are from China.
Who uses WeChat?
According to our data, WeChat is used on thousands of sites, including such established ones as roblox.com,
sina.com.cn, and
gla.ac.uk.
Is WeChat used on government websites?
In total, we found WeChat on 121 government sites in China.
Do academic institutions use WeChat?
Yes. The most notable of these are gla.ac.uk,
tsinghua.edu.cn, and
adelaide.edu.au. Overall, we know of 256 academic websites in China and 4 in the United States that use WeChat.
How does WeChat compare to its competitors?
WeChat is a fairly popular instant messaging app, ranking ahead of 20 other instant messaging apps we track.