Which one is better for ranking?

[Tabassum]

Hello community

My question is most of the domains on the first page has non-WWW URL thereby If I consider High domain authoritative sites including

https://moz.com/ and https://ahrefs.com/ : the site URL is without www

on the contrary, when I take Google it has https://www.google.co.in/

It just confused me, could anyone solve my issue that which one is better for SEO?

[Alick300]

Hi Tabassum,

It is completely up to you. Google never make any statement that without www domain will get preference over domain with www. There are thousands of websites having www in their domain and ranking well in Google.

Thanks

[Tabassum]

but according to my observation,

out of 10 only 2 or 3 has domain with www

[ViviCa1]

I wouldn't necessarily agree with that, probably depends on your search term. For SEO as a search term here in the UK I am getting 6 with www., 2 without and 1 using another subdomain. For "us election" all but one use www (the one that doesn't uses another subdomain). I am not aware of any preference by Google, however, you should be consistent in your use (in canonical tags, sitemap etc), and make sure the one you don't opt for 301 redirects to the other.