Top-20 Websites: Where DO we spend our time online?
Written by Jay Meattle (contact - e-mail) -- January 25th, 2007 |
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Time is a limited resource.. As much as we hate to admit it, we each only have 24 hours on any given day to ‘do things’. In December 2006, we had 44,640 minutes to do whatever our hearts desired — be it sleep, eat, watch TV, jump rope, or spend time online.
Since we each have a fixed amount of time in a given day/week/month/lifetime, we all probably (I know I do!) want to spend it wisely. As such, when we are online we tend to spend more time on sites that are worthy of our attention. After all, who wants to waste time? So, the big question is, where DO we spend all our time online? Which websites are more successful in capturing our attention compared to others?
Take a look at the chart below:
Key Observations:
- Only 20 domains capture a whopping 39% of all our time spent online.
- Only 2.1% of our time is spent on Google.com (includes all sub-domains).
- This surprised me somewhat, given how much I *think* I use Google everyday. I still think I use Google quite a bit, but now realize I don’t spend much time on the site itself. Google is NOT a portal with loads of content. Gmail and Google News are the only services that I spend considerable time on. Search, Maps, etc are quick look-up utilities, as they should be.
- Even if one adds time spent on YouTube.com (#12) to Google.com’s (#5) tally — it still only adds up to 2.7%, and is well below time spent on Ebay.com (#4).
- MySpace (#1) is miles ahead of Yahoo! (#2), however Yahoo! impresses. Yahoo holds a significant lead over Google+YouTube.com, MSN+Live.com and AOL+AIM.com. Yahoo simply needs to merge with MSN to take #1 (hint hint)
- The presence of Adultfriendfinder.com on this list is surprising, but hey, everyone needs a friend, or two!
Update: We’ve released the Compete Attention 200™ ! (Top 200 domains) - 02/05/2007
Get SnapShots of sites mentioned in this post:
- adultfriendfinder.com
- aim.com
- amazon.com
- aol.com
- bankofamerica.com
- craigslist.com
- ebay.com
- facebook.com
- go.com
- google.com
- live.com
- mapquest.com
- msn.com
- myspace.com
- neopets.com
- pogo.com
- walmart.com
- wikipedia.org
- yahoo.com
- youtube.com
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January 25th, 2007 at 12:25 pm
I’m really surprised by the yahoo-google thing. You mention that Google doesn’t have a lot of content to browse, but in that sense, neither is Yahoo. What does Yahoo have that Google doesn’t? In my opinion, Google has more reasons to stay on their domain. Not only does Google have sections such as Google Trends, but they have gchat associated with their gmail. A lot of people seem to love leaving their gmail up so they can make use of gchat pretty much all day long. Is there any real explanation for Yahoo’s surprising 2nd place?
January 25th, 2007 at 1:04 pm
Yahoo Finance… it is by far the best (free) financial resource on the web and if you are spending any time researching companies for investment purposes you’ll spend a ton of time on yahoo finance. Also, I believe their personals site is considered the #1 personals site in terms of traffic. Not to mention HotJobs, Yahoo Mail, etc… basically, they have plenty of individual sites that require the user to peruse through listings, read and perform other types of research that google just doesn’t provide (ok, they have a financial site but it isn’t even in the same league as yahoo’s).
It would be interesting to see a breakdown of the individual yahoo properties to see where the true consumer of time is located.
January 25th, 2007 at 1:29 pm
Skitoo:
To list a few:
* Yahoo Mail is the #1 mail provider in existence today. Larger than Gmail.
* Yahoo Finance is probably the most trafficked Finance portal for stock quotes.
* Y! Answers has also now become the #1 answer service on the web.
* In addition, Yahoo also has Personals (personals.yahoo.com), Autos (autos.yahoo.com), Music (music.yahoo.com), HotJobs (hotjobs.yahoo.com), Yahoo Messenger, *Search*, News, Maps, etc, etc…
all boils down to A LOT of content.
It is most likely that mainstream U.S.A. does not leave Gmail up all day, or check out Google Trends often. The data backs this. You and I may not be the typical Google user.
January 26th, 2007 at 1:48 am
About 30 percent at the top 5. I think the 20 site cutoff is a bit distracting since this curve appears to diminish to very low numbers very quickly. Wouldn’t it be more appropriate to conclude the opposite - ie that long tail is where most of the action is now?
January 26th, 2007 at 2:18 am
There are room for improvements in this list - because the country codes should be added, to be fair
Google.co.uk - Google.de etc and others - are relevant when counting Google’s rankings - because many of the other sites only use one .com domain regardless of the country of origin
January 26th, 2007 at 2:59 am
I am missing in this blog post how you did track or think you tracked these informations. I tried to click around a bit to find the information about this but none was presented.
As usual, I find it annoying when somebody says “of all internet users” in such numbers - because you do never track all of them but at least you added US-Users (my favorite missing piece).
Now, assuming that you track this by a toolbar as I can see it below, it is the usual “only if you have it installed syndrom” like with alexa. And - having windows with sites open does not mean spends time. But let’s assume you do track online ‘time’ by active window, it still does not make sense to set this as visited and use relevance with this. For the simple reason as you described - google. You use it shortly but it has immense value for you.
Now is it really surprising that Yahoo has such high usage? If I look at the picture of the toolbar below, it features yahoo as the only non compete site (again - I have not used your tool), and that people who install such a toolbar are more likely to spend time on myspace than they do on amazon.com for ordering books should also not come as a surprise. :)
So, nice insight - of your target sample.
January 26th, 2007 at 9:40 am
Nicole… There is a huge link on the upper right box of the site labeled: “Where do these traffic numbers come from”. If you click it you’ll find that Compete’s Toolbar is only one of of several data inputs.
January 26th, 2007 at 10:12 am
Search Engines WEB: This analysis is focused on individual domains, not clusters. We ranked Google.com, not Google properties as a whole, etc.
Joseph: You’re right, most of the action (~61%) is outside the top-20.
Nicole: Based on the daily web usage of more than two million people, Compete calculates and estimates total traffic and rank for nearly every site on the web. We balance multiple data sources, including ISPs, ASPs, Opt-In Panels and the Compete Toolbar. We strongly believe in our multiple data source strategy and its ability to detect and correct for bias across diverse data sources to ensure accurate U.S. projections.
For more (and a comparison of Compete vs Alexa vs comScore vs Hitwise vs Nielsen): http://blog.compete.com/where-do-these-numbers-come-from/
January 26th, 2007 at 11:10 am
Do you think this will make my Wikipedia stocks rise? :) http://iam.always.online.fr/tr.php?wordid=2315
January 26th, 2007 at 11:12 am
Yahoo Fantasy Sports…I’m telling you, that is HUGE.
January 26th, 2007 at 1:25 pm
Interesting. Will this be updated overtime?
Now that MS finally updated their web browser to include RSS (although not great, I still prefer Firefox), I wonder how much of this will change overtime when (if it happens) people start using RSS more. So instead of portals and pageviews will change to RSS and quick snapshots.
Also, recently I had looked at an Alexa’s analysis of portals from the past compared with Yahoo. One thing I found interesting was that on the bottom it mentioned that ~50% of people visiting the Yahoo do so for webmail. I wonder if that will change over time. I have Yahoo and Gmail accounts. Until about two months ago I’ve started using Gmail more, since it’s convenient for the integration with other services (Calendar, Docs, Maps, free POP3). Switching from one to another (i.e. YMail to GMail) is more about convenience. So much easier to stick with what you have. But, if people see the convenience of other services, I wonder how that will change this analysis. Thanks again.
January 26th, 2007 at 5:01 pm
The new way to rank the web
Looks like Jay Meattle over at Compete’s blog has been watching his trackbacks. Just a couple days after using his data to make my case for how widgets and ajax will lead to a shake-up in web hierarchy to measuring by time, he posted a great follow-up…
January 26th, 2007 at 6:34 pm
Great charts but I come to a very different conclusion. The basic problem is that Yahoo traffic is junk that is not good for targeting ads. Google gets 88% of its traffic from search result pages where they can sell targeted PPC (Pay Per Click) ads. Yahoo gets only 11% of its traffic from search.
Yahoo gets 33% of its page views on Yahoo Mail where at best you can sell low margin CPM ads. Another 32% is hits on the Yahoo home page…again, not targeted so all you can do is sell CPM banner ads.
That is the fundamental difference between Google (PPC) and Yahoo (CPM) The nature of the traffic is different and the way it can be monetized is WAY different.
I wrote a blog about this today with traffic composition charts that illustrate the problem. See http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2007/01/yahoo_cpm_versu.html
Don Dodge
January 26th, 2007 at 6:57 pm
I think that more people’s browsers are defaulting to MSN and Yahoo but that doesn’t actually mean that anyone is sitting in front of it looking at the screen. I come in to work and all of the browsers on each computer (besides my own, which defaults to google) default to msn. Most of the day, those browsers stay open, but no one is at the computer or at least not actually looking at anything on the site, they might have another application open and be doing something else and just keep the browser minimized. I bet the story would be slightly (not immensly, but slightly) different if we were able to identify inactive users and remove them from the data set.
January 27th, 2007 at 9:10 am
So this is US, or at least English-only sites? I’d love to see a global version…
January 29th, 2007 at 1:27 am
My question is how did Bank of America enter to this list? According to you it is more popular then wikipedia.
What about other social networks ?
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January 29th, 2007 at 1:38 am
Yea I think MySpace will dominate again in 2007. They are about to hit China so their traffic will increase their numbers even more.
January 29th, 2007 at 6:29 am
And of course, not a word about Asia..
February 1st, 2007 at 4:16 am
That is very good! I support you!
February 1st, 2007 at 10:52 am
Is there a way to provide the top 20 domains in the lower percentile?
February 1st, 2007 at 7:46 pm
Yahoo! Groups are an extrememly popular social resource, so we presume that plays into Yahoo!’s high ranking.
February 2nd, 2007 at 4:08 am
My prediction is that in the next year’s rankings we will see Club Intimate (www.clubintimate.com) taking a position.
Club Intimate is a community based Online Dating & Social Networking service that is 100% FREE to join and use. Most of the social networking sites are not built for dating but Club Intimate is.
Since Club Intimate is 100% FREE it will make its mark in the online dating scene giving a good competition tio the big guys like match.com, mate1.com, lavelife.com etc.
February 2nd, 2007 at 8:45 am
Nice information Man! This can be very helpful for those who are looking for a platform to get good exposure through advertisements. This is secondary that with which keyword and content they are offering their ads.
February 2nd, 2007 at 11:53 am
Given this information stated above,”Where DO we spend our time online?” where is the absolute best place to market a commercial website for travel?
Thank you.
Eros
February 2nd, 2007 at 12:57 pm
What are the age demographics for my My Space ?
February 2nd, 2007 at 1:20 pm
Eros,
I handle travel category research for Compete. Regarding where to market, it depends on your product, budget, target market, etc…
Paid search can be effective if you are in destination marketing. Destination-specific terms can often be purchased inexpensively. To do this well, a significant amount of effort must be dedicated to optimization.
For selling hotel inventory, meta search sites like Kayak and Sidestep have attractive lead generation platforms that might be of use. Also, distributing through 3rd parties like GDS’s and OTA’s can be very effective despite the trend towards direct sales. JetBlue Airways, which had avoided selling its seats on 3rd party sites, recently started doing so and claims they are now getting a higher average ticket price through that channel compared to direct sales on their own site.
It’s a competitive game but there are many options that can work.
Regards,
Greg
February 2nd, 2007 at 3:02 pm
go.com more popular than YouTube? Come on.
February 2nd, 2007 at 4:21 pm
Greg,
What a very intelligent answer you gave to me. Very much appreciated. I’m not sure what your industry is but, who ever you work for should be grateful…
Thank you
Eros
February 3rd, 2007 at 7:24 am
Hate to seem a Nerd, but what is MySpace? It’s the first time I’ve ever heard of it.
February 4th, 2007 at 10:55 am
Which websites get the most of our time
This is pretty fascinating, especially the little stat that 39% of all minutes spent online in December ‘06 were spent on these 20 websites.
So, thanks to Compete for compiling this great data, the top 20 sites where we spend the most time.
Which…
February 6th, 2007 at 2:24 pm
I agree with Seth Godin on “time spent” and pageviews, they’re meaningless:
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2007/02/meaningless_to_.html
February 6th, 2007 at 5:00 pm
Yahoo is also partnered with AT&T, so anyone who gets AT&T SDL for $15 a month gets their mail on Yahoo, which does NOT have POP3 access so I don’t use it. Yahoo Music is probably one of the biggest traffic catchers. I’d like to see the page view data if they have it available. Interesting study, though.
February 14th, 2007 at 9:53 am
Oooops. What you measured here is not popularity, but inefficiency. My personal experience with ebay is, that it just plainly wastes my time. I avoid myspace alltogether. Same with most of the others from this list. Google gets little of the time slice cake above, because it helps people QUICKLY to get their job done. While people remain little ACTUAL time there, they spend waaaaaay more EFFECTIVE time on it. Differentation is key.
February 19th, 2007 at 10:23 pm
I hate MySpace. The site is a hotbed for predators and child-molesters. I am shoked how low you-tube ranks compared to its media coverage. The google ranking is not as surprising because they really only are reliable for running queries. I think the internet needs to be regulated so sites like you-tube and myspace won’t exist for predators to use. And yes, we are safer since 9/11 “Mr. Anti-bush.” I think a major site that might crack the top twenty this year will be comcast.net because it is expanding its internet domain operations nationwide and there is talk of bandwith space trading (similar to that Enron bandwith trading but more reliable). Great info.
March 16th, 2007 at 3:14 am
I’m very surprised to see Neopets.com on this list. Having been a user on neopets years in the past, I know that it’s just a web-based gaming community geared at kids. So, knowing that, I can’t really believe it ranks with MySpace, Google, Yahoo, etc. But, then again, their user count has skyrocketed since then, and with there massive sellout to merchandising, maybe it shouldn’t be such a shocker to me. Not to mention it’s free.
April 16th, 2007 at 10:22 pm
Nice website. Great online affiliate program. Thank you.
May 1st, 2007 at 5:04 pm
Great Site infomation.
A little shocking to see google that low, But non the less a nice read.
Thanks.
May 13th, 2007 at 12:57 pm
Do you know of any statistics on how much time to US consumers online for job search ?
June 9th, 2007 at 12:09 am
This doesn’t surprise me at all. yahoo has a loyal following from the olden days and their marketing and products has really branded the site to be a great place to stay on the internet.
June 15th, 2007 at 6:27 pm
Thank for making this valuable information available to the public.
June 24th, 2007 at 11:48 am
This website is very nice and colorful too. Its nice to have something to show others where you attend church and to show all the smiling people filled of the goodness of the Lord. You have a wonderful website here. May God rich bless you always.
July 25th, 2007 at 8:53 am
Before calling one of the call centers,the online time on .com was 5 minutes and page views viewed were around 10 per minute.What all do you suggest we do to increase his online time to 25 minutes and also page views to 25 per minute?
September 1st, 2007 at 3:04 am
How you come up these briliant stats
you are extreamly right people mainly move around these 20 - 25 websites
great job
keep on sharing such intresting stats
Thanks once again
September 2nd, 2007 at 2:47 am
I dont believe this chart. what about FARK?
September 6th, 2007 at 1:08 am
Great Chart! I’m surprised that Yahoo is that much higher then Google. Google is 3-1 over Yahoo in directing traffic to my site (I’m on 1st page on most of my main keywords).
September 16th, 2007 at 7:18 pm
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September 19th, 2007 at 9:00 pm
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September 20th, 2007 at 1:57 pm
No surprise on Yahoo vs Google. Yahoo is a portal, with Yahoo originated content. Many folks make Yahoo their home page and starting point. Google is a search engine, serving as a redirect to content elsewhere users are interested in viewing.
But remember that time spent on the site is not the most important metric. Most web sites are ad supported. Advertisers pay for click-throughs to their site where users might actually buy something. It doesn’t matter if the user spends all day on a site if they don’t click on ads.
Google serves unobtrusive text based ads to half the web sites in existence, using Google search technology to try to make the ads relevant to the content of the site. They are doing *very* well, thank you, from this, with a market cap that reflects it.
Google doesn’t need people spending a lot of time on their domain to make out. They got a piece of everyone *else’s* action.
September 22nd, 2007 at 2:43 am
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September 28th, 2007 at 8:46 pm
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October 6th, 2007 at 11:28 am
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It´s a very interesting Blog and simple answer of many questions.
Keep up the good work!
October 7th, 2007 at 5:26 am
In my opinion all of these best websites above give free for their contents. According to Quran (5,85) “And for their prayer hath Allah rewarded them with gardens, with rivers flowing underneath, their eternal home. Such is the recompense of those who do good”. It’s mean that if we give all of our kindness we can get high return. Insya Allah in my sites http://www.fraimarketing.com , I give all contents for free such as free e-books and free consultation, enjoy.
b’regards
Freddy Rangkuti
October 8th, 2007 at 1:26 am
You are actually right.
Even though my default page is google i hardly spend time browsing specifically on google.
Google is useful tool for any type of information search but the actual browsing on this site itself is very less.
Yahoo is the most used site for all type of search.
Thanks
Rinku
October 29th, 2007 at 5:00 am
Hello,
This is a excellent piece of information.
I am planning to open few websites, this will certainly helpful.
i am going to provide lot of oppertunity…with all the features.
thanks again.
October 29th, 2007 at 5:07 am
sorry….i forgot to ask one thing…
where did you get this info???
how can i get the how ppl spent time agewise and reginonal wise ?
please provide me the details, if possible
November 5th, 2007 at 6:04 am
Super side and good work continue so. Thank you
November 11th, 2007 at 8:11 pm
Impressie list, never thought that myspace is on the first place..
November 12th, 2007 at 1:11 pm
are you serious?!?! myspace is the only thing id expect to be number one… people are addicted to it
November 13th, 2007 at 7:50 pm
Super side and good work continue so. Thank you
November 14th, 2007 at 7:37 pm
Yeah, Google Yahoo thing… takes less time to find what you want on Google ;)
November 14th, 2007 at 7:40 pm
yes you use google a lot, but do you really spend that much “time” on google? while the losers who love dumbed down myspace will surf it for hours. I know my girlfriend is on it for over an hour every night. Yes she uses google 101 times a day but only for secs at a time.
Shawn
Ohio
November 15th, 2007 at 6:18 am
Does the percentage you mentioned for Google include its sub domains also?
I doubt!
Sumanth Krishna. A
http://sumanthtechsavvy.blogspot.com
November 15th, 2007 at 11:27 am
@Sumanth - yes, stats include all sub-domains that fall under Google.com
November 17th, 2007 at 5:10 pm
THIS LIST IS CRAP, IT DOES IN NO WAY TAKE IT CONSIDERATION PORN!!!!
YES PORN!
WHAT THEY INVENTED THE INTERNET FOR DUH…..ALL YOU GUYS MISS THE GLARING OMITION OF PORN!
PORN PORN PORN!
ADLUT FRIEND FINDER IS THE ONLY PORN RELATED SITE, MY ASS………
P.S. IM GOOD AT SPEELLING
November 18th, 2007 at 8:16 am
This is a great compile! Although, having more information about the demographics and the survey data would be helpful. Interesting results though…hmm!
-Mithun Dhar
November 19th, 2007 at 3:40 pm
Really interesting information - and Yahoo Fantasy Sports are huge…
November 19th, 2007 at 3:42 pm
Yahoo mail and yahoo sports definitely play a part.
November 19th, 2007 at 3:45 pm
Quit G as my home page long ago - use Y now.
November 20th, 2007 at 7:39 am
That works out at about 1.7 YEARS per US citizen spent on MySpace in ONE MONTH if US population is 300 million. Seems funny to me?
November 20th, 2007 at 8:55 am
I think the reason that Bank of America ranks so high in “Time” is that it is the worst designed e-commerce site in the world. It takes about 15 minutes just to get logged in.
What a piece of crap.
They bought out my credit card company and I’m forced to use their site. It is pure torture.
November 20th, 2007 at 10:35 pm
Absolutely dating is a numbers game, just like Sales (as a profession is) and many other endeavors. I used to take it personally, but then I began to realize some of the women I felt I was “doing them a favor” by even talking to them were flat out not interested…this is because of any number of reasons, not necessarily my looks or personality or the way I approached them….BOTTOM LINE IMPROVE YOUR NUMBERS AND IMPROVE YOUR ODDS…..more at
http://publicflirt.com
November 24th, 2007 at 7:05 pm
Weird enough no words about the Asian part of this world…
November 26th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
I want to help all the guys out there still WASTING time on AFF!! I (obviously) AM a slow learner. I spent 6+ years as an on again off again member on AFF. I figured out I spent close to if not slightly over $580.00 trying to meet women on this site. It does announce loudly and proudly that they are “The World’s Largest Sex & Swinger Personals Community”…right on their home page! In the 6+ years’ve been on I have tried emailing, winking, adding as “friend”, adding to network, changed my profile, paid for highlighting, and several other methods to attract the elusive “horizontal bump buddy”. I have used these singly and in combination. I have written (easily) 800+ emails. I’m not talking the “love your pics, wanna hump?” kind of emails but ones promoting myself in relation to their choice of favored characteristics. Emails written pointing out how well we matched based on the site’s own grading systems (2). Emails written directly to them from what I read in their profiles. I never wrote anyone I shared less then 3 “stars” with, and almost always from only the 4 or more “star” category. I always wrote to women who were easily within driving distance of at least myself if not them. I’ve always treated the women I was trying to meet with respect and consideration. I’ve stayed religiously within the age requirements of the women I’ve attempted to contact. I was always truthful about myself and showed only pictures of me. I am and have been considered very attractive by women from many walks of life and know that I’m not hard on the eyes. I’m an experienced “partner” who takes care of himself and remains Drug/Disease free and have the documentation to prove it. If dating is the “numbers game” that the guy above says it is I should be smothered in “partners”.
To Date, I have had 9 women write back, 3 more than once. I have met 2 women and have had “fun” with ONE (1)…that’s it… ONE!
This leaves me with a few inescapable conclusions.
1) the vast majority (if not all) of the female profiles on this site are a) bots or b) fake cut outs from magazines, etc. filled out by employees or owners of the site.
2) Any real profiles posted by women are total fabrications they make up to fit how they “feel” they should look and know they don’t. Hence the “never set up/agree to meet” syndrome.
3) These women (the few real ones actually on the site) are using the site solely as a boost to their vanity. Put up a profile and see how many men they can attract…you know, the High School thing.
4) Various combinations of the above.
Since there are no regulating agencies to verify and confirm this site’s claims of membership, or even veracity of actual humans owning the profiles. This writer can only presume his conclusions are true and valid. This being the case, in an attempt to save hundreds, if not thousands, of men from falling for this (apparently) unadulterated fraud, and to save them from being ripped off by a site who has started charging individually for every aspect of what used to be covered by the, exorbitant, “Silver” and/or “Gold” membership fees. I am spreading the word that, based on my experience with them, AFF is nothing but a hoax and a fraud constructed to steal money for nothing but access to a site. This, literally, is all they have to provide! They can imply anything they want on their site and deliver absolutely NOTHING. Because “It’s not up to them if you meet someone here or not, we just provide the venue”.
November 27th, 2007 at 1:28 pm
Of the English speaking users based in North America!
With 120 million geeky Japanese users out there, isn’t it odd that there are no Japanese sites on the list? If it was truely about the usage, there would have to be at least one.
November 27th, 2007 at 5:07 pm
very interesting. I’m surprised aim was as high as it was. i didn’t think anyone used aim anymore.
http://www.floors4u.net/
November 30th, 2007 at 7:51 pm
Nice research. I like it.
If you like top lists, take a look onetopwebsite.com.
I belive it covers 90% of the whole internet activities…
December 3rd, 2007 at 2:06 am
Yahoo is just better at marketing( pre-installed stuff on pcs).
December 6th, 2007 at 10:12 pm
If people spend more time on Yahoo! than on Google, it must be because they find what they’re looking for faster on Google… Then again, I think December 2006 predates offerings like iGoogle, Google Reader, and Google Calendar, so perhaps it’s just outdated already. Typical in the computer world.
December 11th, 2007 at 1:23 pm
Personally, I think yahoo is easier to get into for the inexperienced internet user. Also yahoo seems to be geared much more towards entertainment. Everyone I can think of uses yahoo in my family with only a few of us using gmail.
December 21st, 2007 at 3:07 pm
One interesting inclusion is Adult Friend Finder. It makes me suspicious of the overall quality of data — if advertising is counted among sites where the most time is spent then what is actually being measured here?
December 30th, 2007 at 12:23 am
would love love love to see this updated in Jan 08 please :)
January 7th, 2008 at 7:49 am
The list above is very surprising. For the internet world revolves around google and tech blogs.
January 7th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
I think we can trust this post since it is coming from you guys.
January 18th, 2008 at 12:58 am
Very comprehensive research Jay! I would like to see how these results have been in the pasy few years.
January 19th, 2008 at 2:47 am
Weird enough no words about the Asian part of this world…
January 24th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
very good work good ressourcelist.
January 31st, 2008 at 4:18 pm
cool blog
Best Regards Web Design Bayern
February 4th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
Very comprehensive research Jay! I would like to see how these results have been in the pasy few years.
February 25th, 2008 at 9:55 am
Thank you! Very interesting article, many people can find something for them, really great!
February 28th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
That is very interesting. It looks like while Google may have the upper end on search, Yahoo is still attracting people through other services. Maybe MSFT can become a better competitor to Google on search when they buy YHOO.
March 18th, 2008 at 5:49 am
Thank you for the good articles have helped me a lot.
March 18th, 2008 at 5:55 am
Thank you for the good articles have helped me a lot.
March 20th, 2008 at 5:52 am
I do not believe this chart…. it does not give any method how to make it. just a brief explanation … believe me..it bulshit
March 21st, 2008 at 10:50 pm
Great collection Keep up the good work
March 22nd, 2008 at 11:25 am
Thanks for your article
Nice piece of work! I’m expecting more soon!
Keep up the good work! Cheers
March 24th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
Thank you for the good articles have helped me a lot.
March 24th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
Thank you! Very interesting article, many people can find something for them, really great!
March 24th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
Thank for making this valuable information available to the public.
March 24th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
Very comprehensive research Jay! I would like to see how these results have been in the pasy few years.
March 24th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
Super side and good work continue so. Thank you
March 26th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
remember people that this is from 2006… so if there was gmail, like someone above me said, it was pretty unpopular still. i’m assuming that now, myspace, facebook, & youtube would take the cake. youtube’s been growing rapidly since 06
March 28th, 2008 at 6:56 am
Going by this chart it should be Google up for grabs, but only time will tell who gobbles whom.
And going by the number of responses this blog got, you got a hit on the head of a “very thin slender” nail !!!
April 8th, 2008 at 3:36 am
Thanks for your article
Nice piece of work! I’m expecting more soon!
Keep up the good work!
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April 17th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
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April 17th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
Going by this chart it should be Google up for grabs, but only time will tell who gobbles whom.
And going by the number of responses this blog got, you got a hit on the head of a “very thin slender” nail !!!
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April 17th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
I do not believe this chart…. it does not give any method how to make it. just a brief explanation … believe me..it bulshit
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April 17th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
Personally, I think yahoo is easier to get into for the inexperienced internet user. Also yahoo seems to be geared much more towards entertainment. Everyone I can think of uses yahoo in my family with only a few of us using gmail.
April 21st, 2008 at 12:34 am
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April 30th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
I know its not exactly a website but come on, World of Warcraft has to be mentioned here.
May 8th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
Thanks for your article
Very Nice piece of work! Google Apps are great. Every hour I don’t spend maintaining something that Google now does for me is another minute I can spend developing one of our products or working on custom softwarefor a client.” Keep up the good work!
by the way…
May 21st, 2008 at 3:55 am
yea!good!
its not exactly a website but come on, World of Warcraft has to be mentioned here.
May 24th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
Google should be better than msn :S
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May 28th, 2008 at 5:49 am
How this will look like if you count online games?
June 13th, 2008 at 5:17 am
yea!good!
June 16th, 2008 at 9:45 pm
Well, when this statistics would be uptodate you would see that most of the people spent their time on youtube!
June 29th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
Interesting to see that even though YouTube is so popular and well known, as well as Facebook, that people spend less time there…
Is that a bad thing? Maybe not– maybe it means the site is easier to navigate and get what you need done. Although, I’m somewhat surprised at the Facebook stats. Myspace, being on the top, may only be there because the site is so difficult to use and, for me, is a real WASTE of time because you spend so much time doing so very little (and it’s a pain to really get at what you may be looking for.) As you can see, I’m not really a fan of MySpace…
June 30th, 2008 at 8:25 am
nice unknown analysis. Thanks.
July 22nd, 2008 at 1:32 pm
That most people on here agree with pogo
And yet i do to.
Atleast 200,000 Online Every Hour!
And now they have TV Ads! O.o!
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August 9th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
okay, here we go.
i just wanted to add my statistics:
1. youtube.com
2. myspace.com
3. spiegel.de
4. icanhascheezburger.com
5. leo.org
6. last.fm
7. skype.com
8. ard.de
9. marions-kochbuch.de
10. livesearch.com
11. funnyordie.com
12. sinn-frei.com
13. titanic-magazin.de
14. yahoo.de
15. learningtoloveyoumore.com
16. instructables.com
17. nasa.gov
18. lomography.com
19. gmx.de
20. travelantis.de
August 13th, 2008 at 7:17 am
This is a Analytic from the American Users right? Dont forget the Travelsites.
September 2nd, 2008 at 3:59 am
The Germans are not most Online on myspace ;-)
September 10th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
i suspect bank of america is ranked so high because it takes forever just to log into thier site….. not to mention the last time i went to the branch to ask a simple question it took 2 trips aka two entire lunch breaks
October 9th, 2008 at 5:23 pm
This is awesome, but I think outdated now. I am sure the rankings must have changed by now. You should be able to update this blog, I am guessing.
October 26th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
Weird: no words about Asia
November 9th, 2008 at 8:19 am
I can not really believe it ranks with MySpace, Google, Yahoo, MSN, … Vervy Good!
November 13th, 2008 at 8:10 am
This is outdated.
November 15th, 2008 at 4:41 am
Brillant and good work - continue so. Thank you.
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December 27th, 2008 at 12:42 am
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July 1st, 2009 at 3:51 am
Разумно написано, но мне кажется, что автор что-то не договаривает :)
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