Comments on: Sink or Swim? The Top Moving Sites Of 2007

By: paresh

paresh — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 02:56:52 +0000

thanks for useful list.

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By: Jenny

Jenny — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 03:41:41 +0000

interesting post. i’ve never compared anything about my site but maybe i should. i’m just to lazy.

By: Roberto

Roberto — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 14:14:48 +0000

The reason of wich the traffic volume for adults video share sites like http://www.yoyovid.com is ever-growing is simply… these sites are the new frontier of porn, in little words:” Why pay for porn when you get porn for free?”
That’s all folks!

By: Ivo

Ivo — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:17:19 +0000

Yea YouPorn.com rulez :)

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:16:42 +0000

What I find interesting is that a dot gov site, weather.gov, grew 461% on an already fairly large number of hits. Seems like the American public is getting a pretty good deal for their tax dollars.

By: thenetguruz

thenetguruz — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:06:15 +0000

Thanks for telling those * sites ;) hehe anyways I really felt bad for bolt donno why but I am feeling bad whatever happened to them.

By: Dwayne Charrington

Dwayne Charrington — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:34:43 +0000

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By: Matt Ellsworth

Matt Ellsworth — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 14:16:59 +0000

Interesting list. I would not have expected such a drop off in netscape since they moved to propeller - but wow thats a huge dip.

By: sikanrong

sikanrong — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 13:16:02 +0000

dude - I’m not even kidding - not only have I been a daily user for quite some time, but if youporn has an IPO - i’m totally there.

By: Geekaholic

Geekaholic — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 07:15:39 +0000

Veoh, Wordpress.com and LinkedIn see huge growth

What’s interesting is Veoh is on that list, but YouTube isn’t. And it’s a pretty big list. Why are people switching to Veoh? I hadn’t heard about it till a couple of months back (I saw it because someone would upload Heroes epis…

By: adii

adii — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 02:51:13 +0000

WordPress On The Up: But Why?

The guys over at Compete has just released a list of the fastest moving websites of 2007, listing WordPress.com with a 523% growth in 2007 and approximately 25 million visits. Now in my opinion, those are incredible stats, that none of us would mind ha…

By: Kango Ling

Kango Ling — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 03:40:01 +0000

Netscape’s social networking started re-directing to propeller.com sometime last year. I haven’t typed netscape.com on my browser for months now. Does the negative change for netscape take that into account?

By: Otis Gospodnetic

Otis Gospodnetic — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:34:57 +0000

Max: ah, yes, of course! Sorry, forgot that for a moment. Thanks for clarification.

By: Max Freiert

Max Freiert — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:17:25 +0000

Searchengineweb - We do have access to that list…sounds like a future blog post to me!

Jeremy - If you have a list of sites that you are interested in and don’t mind spending some time inputing domains, you can actually run this analysis yourself at siteanalytics.compete.com. Below every chart, we show month-over-month, and year-over-year change for each domain. The only thing you couldn’t see is sub-domain data. Send me an email if I misunderstood the question, or if your interested in a small custom analysis.

Sam - One function of growth is relative size. It’s very easy for a small site to grow rapidly, while a large site could add 10,000,000 visitors and not have a large impact on its overall membership. Facebook actually attracted more incremental visits than any of the sites on this list over the period, but only grew by 90% in terms of total visits because of its large established base in 2006.

Otis - For some reason I missed mentioning this in the post. For this analysis, we only looked at sites that were in the top 1000 sites (ranked by visits) in 2007 or 2006. This was done to eliminate noise from the lists. It is extremely impressive to grow visits by 1000%, but when that growth is from 1,000 to 10,000, it is dwarfed by a site that grew from 100,000 to 1,000,000. If we had used a cut off of the top 10 or 20,000 sites, none of the sites above would make the list (with the possible exception of the top 3).

Guy - See above. Retail me not was VERY close to making the top 1000 sites (ranked by visits). Had we used UV’s instead of Visits as a cutoff metric, Retaimenot would have been in this list.

By: Guy

Guy — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 02:38:14 +0000

I too am wondering how come retailmenot.com was excluded from the list:
http://siteanalytics.compete.com/retailmenot.com/?metric=uv

???

By: Otis Gospodnetic

Otis Gospodnetic — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:42:12 +0000

Actually, make that a bit over 760% yearly increase of visitors for simpy.com - see http://siteanalytics.compete.com/simpy.com/?metric=uv

So are some sites not listed, even if they percentage-wise growth is high? Is your list limited to sites with > N monthly visitors? If so, what’s that N?

Thanks.

By: Otis Gospodnetic

Otis Gospodnetic — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:38:34 +0000

I don’t get one thing. Is this list limited to sites of a certain profile (other than the annual percentage gain)?
I’m asking because I see Simpy gained about 550% between 12/2006 and 12/2007 (see http://siteanalytics.compete.com/www.simpy.com/ ), yet it’s not on the top 20 list in your post.

How come?
Thanks.

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:22:58 +0000

Odd that sites like Facebook and others did not show or grow?