{"id":131,"date":"2007-10-31T19:07:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-31T23:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog2\/2007\/10\/31\/top-50-websites-ranked-by-unique-visitors-the-shareaholics-emerge\/"},"modified":"2007-11-01T09:20:04","modified_gmt":"2007-11-01T13:20:04","slug":"top-50-websites-ranked-by-unique-visitors-the-shareaholics-emerge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/top-50-websites-ranked-by-unique-visitors-the-shareaholics-emerge\/","title":{"rendered":"Top-50 Websites &#8211; Ranked by Unique Visitors; The Shareaholics Emerge!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><small>published on the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.compete.com\/2007\/10\/30\/top-50-websites-domains-digg-youtube-flickr-facebook\/\">Compete Blog<\/a> on 30-Oct-2007<\/small><\/div>\n<div style=\"float: right;\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\">digg_url = \"http:\/\/digg.com\/tech_news\/Top_50_Websites_Ranked_by_Unique_Visitors_Including_Digg_Facebook\";<\/script><br \/><script src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/tools\/diggthis.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/home.compete.com.edgesuite.net\/site_media\/upl\/img\/top50domains_sep2007.png\" alt=\"Top 50 Domains - Ranked by Unique Visitors - September 2007\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Observations (Winners list):<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Emergence of Content Sharing:<\/strong>  5 of the top 10 gainers having something to do with <strong><em>sharing content<\/em><\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/YouTube.com\">(YouTube<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/Flickr.com\">Flickr<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/Facebook.com\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/Wikipedia.org\">Wikipedia<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\">Digg<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>Traffic to <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\">Facebook.com<\/a> has increased by 14.6M, but hold on&#8230;traffic to <a href=\"http:\/\/MySpace.com\">MySpace.com<\/a> has also increased by 10.2M during the same time period.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/AdultFriendFinder.com\">AdultFriendFinder.com<\/a> continues to thrive with nearly 24M unique visitors (up 8.8M this year), but look out AFF,  <a href=\"http:\/\/Fling.com\">Fling.com<\/a> is catching up with you <em>quickly<\/em>.  Fling  has gained a whopping 17.4M visitors in the past 12 months to reach 18.7M unique visitors in September.<\/li>\n<li>Rebranding of Cingular to AT&#038;T helped out <a href=\"http:\/\/att.com\">ATT.com<\/a>.  All <a href=\"http:\/\/Cingular.com\">Cingular.com<\/a> traffic is now channeled to  <a href=\"http:\/\/wireless.att.com\">wireless.att.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\">Digg<\/a> has been growing faster than <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\">Facebook<\/a>!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<table cellspacing=\"3\" cellpadding=\"2\" style=\"border:2px solid #000000;\">\n<tr height=\"17\">\n<td width=\"105\" height=\"17\" bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\"><span style=\"font-size:12px;\"><strong>Biggest gainers:<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td width=\"105\" align=\"right\" bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\"><strong>Sept &#8217;07 <br \/>Unique Visitors<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"105\" align=\"right\" bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\"><strong>Sept &#8217;06<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"105\" align=\"right\" bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\"><strong>Change<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr height=\"17\">\n<td height=\"17\" align=\"left\">1. <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\">youtube.com<\/a><\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">47,417,527<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">25,860,510<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\"><span style=\"color: #009933;\">21,557,017<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr height=\"17\">\n<td height=\"17\" align=\"left\">2. <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\">flickr.com<\/a><\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">25,278,501<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">7,382,573<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\"><span style=\"color: #009933;\">17,895,929<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr height=\"17\">\n<td height=\"17\" align=\"left\">3. <a href=\"http:\/\/fling.com\">fling.com<\/a><\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">18,702,338<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1,284,273<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\"><span style=\"color: #009933;\">17,418,065<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr height=\"17\">\n<td height=\"17\" align=\"left\">4. <a href=\"http:\/\/wikipedia.org\">wikipedia.org<\/a><\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">51,648,465<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">35,650,551<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\"><span style=\"color: #009933;\">15,997,914<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr height=\"17\">\n<td height=\"17\" align=\"left\">5. <a href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\">digg.com<\/a><\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">18,401,139<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">2,854,646<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\"><span style=\"color: #009933;\">15,546,493<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr height=\"17\">\n<td height=\"17\" align=\"left\">6. <a href=\"http:\/\/google.com\">google.com<\/a><\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">124,544,834<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">109,080,418<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\"><span style=\"color: #009933;\">15,464,416<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr height=\"17\">\n<td height=\"17\" align=\"left\">7. <a href=\"http:\/\/att.com\">att.com<\/a><\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">17,984,849<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">3,221,543<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\"><span style=\"color: #009933;\">14,763,306<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr height=\"18\">\n<td height=\"18\" align=\"left\">8. <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\">facebook.com<\/a><\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">24,211,448<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">9,545,359<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\"><span style=\"color: #009933;\">14,666,089<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr height=\"18\">\n<td height=\"18\" align=\"left\">9. <a href=\"http:\/\/turn.com\">turn.com<\/a> <\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">14,296,976<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">628,718<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\"><span style=\"color: #009933;\">13,668,258<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr height=\"18\" align=\"left\">\n<td height=\"18\">10. <a href=\"http:\/\/yahoo.com\">yahoo.com<\/a> <\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">130,078,549<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">116,961,340<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\"><span style=\"color: #009933;\">13,117,209<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Observations (Losers list):<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Traffic declined to only 8 domains in the Top 50 (Sept &#8217;07).<\/li>\n<li>Two Amazon properties on the list &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/IMDB.com\">IMDB.com<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/Amazon.com\">Amazon.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Two Microsoft properties on the list &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/passport.net\">Passport.net<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/msn.com\">MSN.com<\/a>.  My guess is that most of their lost traffic went to <a href=\"http:\/\/live.com\">Live.com<\/a>, MSN&#8217;s new portal.  Live.com is up 10.2M unique visitors during the same time period.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<table cellspacing=\"3\" cellpadding=\"2\" style=\"border:2px solid #000000;\">\n<tr height=\"17\">\n<td width=\"105\" height=\"17\" bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\"><span style=\"font-size:12px;\"><strong>Biggest losers:<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td width=\"105\" align=\"right\" bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\"><strong>Sept &#8217;07<br \/>Unique Visitors<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"105\" align=\"right\" bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\"><strong>Sept &#8217;06<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"105\" align=\"right\" bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\"><strong>Change<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr height=\"17\">\n<td height=\"17\" align=\"left\">1. <a href=\"http:\/\/aol.com\">aol.com<\/a><\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">62,201,981<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">72,859,584<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\"><span style=\"color: #FF0000;\">(10,657,602)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr height=\"17\">\n<td height=\"17\" align=\"left\">2. <a href=\"http:\/\/passport.net\">passport.net<\/a><\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">16,605,856<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">23,056,010<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\"><span style=\"color: #FF0000;\">(6,450,155)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr height=\"17\">\n<td height=\"17\" align=\"left\">3. <a href=\"http:\/\/msn.com\">msn.com<\/a><\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">72,402,712<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">78,701,909<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\"><span style=\"color: #FF0000;\">(6,299,197)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr height=\"17\">\n<td height=\"17\" align=\"left\">4. <a href=\"http:\/\/geocities.com\">geocities.com<\/a><\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">16,086,159<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">20,300,659<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\"><span style=\"color: #FF0000;\">(4,214,500)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr height=\"17\">\n<td height=\"17\" align=\"left\">5. <a href=\"http:\/\/amazon.com\">amazon.com<\/a><\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">42,420,889<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">45,417,807<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\"><span style=\"color: #FF0000;\">(2,996,918)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr height=\"17\">\n<td height=\"17\" align=\"left\">6. <a href=\"http:\/\/weather.com\">weather.com<\/a><\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">16,002,964<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">18,709,799<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\"><span style=\"color: #FF0000;\">(2,706,835)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr height=\"17\">\n<td height=\"17\" align=\"left\">7. <a href=\"http:\/\/expedia.com\">expedia.com<\/a><\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">13,564,006<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">&nbsp;14,087,085<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\"><span style=\"color: #FF0000;\">(523,079)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr height=\"18\">\n<td height=\"18\" align=\"left\">8. <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\">imdb.com<\/a><\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">16,390,522<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">16,705,447<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\"><span style=\"color: #FF0000;\">(314,925)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>published on the Compete Blog on 30-Oct-2007 Key Observations (Winners list): The Emergence of Content Sharing: 5 of the top 10 gainers having something to do with sharing content (YouTube, Flickr, Facebook, Wikipedia, Digg). Traffic to Facebook.com has increased by 14.6M, but hold on&#8230;traffic to MySpace.com has also increased by 10.2M during the same time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-competecom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}