{"id":60,"date":"2006-12-16T08:07:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-16T12:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog2\/2006\/12\/16\/top-20-websites-who%e2%80%99s-in-who%e2%80%99s-out\/"},"modified":"2006-12-16T08:07:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-16T12:07:00","slug":"top-20-websites-who%e2%80%99s-in-who%e2%80%99s-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/top-20-websites-who%e2%80%99s-in-who%e2%80%99s-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 20 Websites: Who\u2019s In, Who\u2019s Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-size:85%;\" >First published on the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.compete.com\/2006\/12\/07\/top-20-most-popular-websites-unique-visitors-new-absent\/?&#038;int=1032\">Compete Blog<\/a> on 7-Dec-2006.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/home.compete.com.edgesuite.net\/site_media\/upl\/img\/Compete_TopSites_Oct2006.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Key observations:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li>In October, <strong>there were exactly 20 domains with over 20 million unique visitors<\/strong>.  This is it. The elite of the elite!<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>There is a gap of *33 million* unique visitors between #3 AOL and #4 MSN.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Name a website that gets between 80-100 million unique visitors a month? Trick question.  There are none!  The top 3 domains &#8211; Yahoo, Google and AOL &#8211; are truly in a class of their own.  <strong>There were NO domains with unique visitor traffic between 80-100 million<\/strong> <em>(see chart below)<\/em>.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><strong>Who is new on this list?<\/strong> (compared to Oct &#8217;05):\n<ul> <\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/\">Adobe.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.live.com\/\">Live.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikipedia.org\/\">Wikipedia.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\">YouTube.com<\/a><\/li>\n<p><\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Who is absent?<\/strong> (compared to Oct &#8217;05):\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.expedia.com\/\">Expedia.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.monster.com\/\">Monster.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paypal.com\/\">Paypal.com<\/a> <em><\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weather.com\/\">Weather.com<\/a> <em><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>       <small>Interesting note: Even though Paypal.com and Weather.com fell out of the top-20, unique visitor traffic to those domains is actually up.<\/small><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/home.compete.com.edgesuite.net\/site_media\/upl\/img\/Compete_Oct06_Distr.png\" alt=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First published on the Compete Blog on 7-Dec-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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","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=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}