Twitch vs YouTube: Traffic Comparison (2026)
Live gaming and streaming, Twitch's home turf versus YouTube's scale.
Traffic Statistics
Twitch
Metric
YouTube
1.2B / mo
Monthly Visits
✓34.8B / mo
#22
Global Rank
✓#2
456/s
Requests / sec
✓13,242/s
entertainment
Category
entertainment
Verdict
YouTube receives 30× more monthly traffic than Twitch, but Twitch dominates live gaming streams with 35 million daily visitors and 9 million unique monthly streamers.