Top 20 Websites: Who’s In, Who’s Out

Written by Jay Meattle (contact - e-mail) -- December 7th, 2006 | Recommend This

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Top Sites October 2006

Key observations:

  • In October, there were exactly 20 domains with over 20 million unique visitors. This is it. The elite of the elite!
  • There is a gap of *33 million* unique visitors between #3 AOL and #4 MSN.
  • Name a website that gets between 80-100 million unique visitors a month? Trick question. There are none! The top 3 domains - Yahoo, Google and AOL - are truly in a class of their own. There were NO domains with unique visitor traffic between 80-100 million (see chart below).
  • Who is new on this list? (compared to Oct ‘05):
  • Who is absent? (compared to Oct ‘05):

    Interesting note: Even though Paypal.com and Weather.com fell out of the top-20, unique visitor traffic to those domains is actually up.

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  1. Corey

    If you add MSN + Live + Passport + Microsoft, you get a new #1 for Microsoft and by a wide margin.

  2. klinux

    Microsoft - with MSN, live.com, passport, and microsoft.com - should be called out separately as one of the top 4, right up there with GY & A.

  3. Read/WriteWeb

    Top 20 Websites in US…

    Web metrics firm Compete has an interesting post, outlining the top 20 websites (for US traffic). According to Compete, all 20 of them got over 20 million unique visitors in October 2006. Here is the chart: A couple of people……

  4. Jimmy Daniels

    Top 20 Websites by Unique Visitors…

    Hard to believe, but in October there were 20 websites that had over 20 million unique visitors apiece! If you put all four of Microsoft’s sites together, they are number 1 by over 80 million unique visitors! According to Compete.com.

    ……

  5. John Dowdell

    Hi, interesting stats, thanks. What’s the methodology, where did the data come from?

  6. John Dowdell

    Sorry, as I clicked “Submit” I saw the link in the sidebar, outside the article.

    Is this the key line in the methodology? “Based on the daily web usage of more than two million members (and growing!) of the Compete community, Compete calculates and estimates total traffic and rank for nearly every site on the web.”
    http://www.compete.com/help/#snp3

    A sample size of two million is pretty good. Was there any other data, besides toolbar membership, which went into this rendering?

  7. Do

    Interesting data, but what are the factors that drive more people to one site than another. Is it word of mouth (blogs and such), the site’s longevity, advertising dollars or magic dust?

  8. SearcH EngineS WeB

    Compare Complete data to the cumulative date of Comscore for October. Interesting results:

    metrics2.com/blog/2006/11/13/comscore_top_50_us_web_rankings_octoberwikipedia_i.html

  9. Steve Lavey | 20 Million Minutes

    Top 20 Websites: Who’s In, Who’s Out…

    With a fair amount of my attention at Park Community Church being focused on our website and other various methods of electronic communications, I spend a lot of time keeping up on web/blog/web design trends. Over at Compete.com, there is an interes…

  10. H. Vogelgesang

    Nice Stat’s!
    Are these Stats also available as XML Feed or another Data Feed?

    I would like to publish these “charts” on my webpage @ http://www.top10-charts.com (charts collection in German)

  11. Fresqui.com

    Top 20 sitios web de EE.UU…

    Según Compete.com, y para sorpresa de algunos, fijaros en el primer puesto.

  12. asdfsad

    75,000,000 people (msn.com) are not able to change the default home page.
    cool world

  13. K12

    Is it global data or US only?

  14. ned

    Would this really be unique visitors or rather unique computer terminals?
    Does anybody know where I can find out more?

  15. LosAngeles

    Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.

  16. zuracle

    I think Yahoo still #1 because it’s mail service, for some people it’s not necessary to change their email address.

  17. Elamabuwa

    Great competition!
    This blog is great too.

    I wonder If my website“Free Guitar Ebooks” can enter into atleast 10,000 top websites in the internet oneday :)


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