Legacy.com is a United States–based website founded in 1998,[2] the world's largest commercial provider of online memorials.
[5] The site attracts more than 30 million unique visitors per month and is among the top 40 trafficked websites in the world.
[6] Legacy.com attaches a publicly accessible guestbook to most of the obituaries it hosts,[7] which enables anyone with an Internet connection to pay tribute to someone whose obituary appears in one of Legacy.com's affiliate newspapers or is self-published on Legacy.com.
As of 2016,[update] the company was approaching 100 million guestbook entries on its site.
[5] Legacy.com is a privately held company based in Chicago, Illinois,[1] with more than 1,500 newspaper affiliates in North America, Europe and Australia,[4][8][9] including The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times and Manchester Evening News.