Top 15 Web Properties Worldwide for Dec 06; Internet Users Up 10% in 2006
Worldwide Internet usage increased 10%
in December 2006 compared to December
2005, according to
the comScore. The Search/Navigation category grew 9%, led by Google which rose 13% in worldwide visitors in 2006. Microsoft and Yahoo! Sites
each grew 5% worldwide during 2006.
Google Growth YoY:
- 13%: Overall visitor growth to Google sites
- 40%: Google Image Search
- 62%: Visitors to Google Maps
- 71%: Visitors to Gmail
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Top
Global Web Properties by Total
Unique Visitors |
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Web Properties |
Total Unique Visitors (000) |
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Worldwide Total (Age 15+) |
740,984 |
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| 1 |
Microsoft Sites |
508,659 |
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| 2 |
Google Sites |
494,170 |
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| 3 |
Yahoo! Sites |
476,761 |
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| 4 |
Time Warner Network |
260,387 |
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| 5 |
eBay |
251,423 |
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| 6 |
Wikipedia Sites |
164,675 |
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| 7 |
Amazon Sites |
151,033 |
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| 8 |
Fox Interactive Media |
135,730 |
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| 9 |
CNET Networks |
114,940 |
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| 10 |
Ask Network |
113,881 |
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| 11 |
Apple Computer, Inc. |
111,131 |
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| 12 |
Adobe Sites |
100,421 |
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| 13 |
Lycos, Inc. |
83,724 |
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| 14 |
Viacom Digital |
76,171 |
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| 15 |
New York Times Digital |
68,010 |
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Source:
comScore World Metrix * Excludes traffic from public computers such as Internet cafes and access from mobile phones or PDAs. |
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Top Gaining Categories in 2006:
Multimedia (up 37%): A major driver of growth in the multimedia category was YouTube.com, which grew 1,972% versus year ago to reach 120 million worldwide visitors in December.
Community (up 33%): In the Community category, which includes social networking sites, MySpace and Blogger were both significant growth drivers, growing 159% to 90 million worldwide visitors and 90% to 93 million worldwide visitors, respectively.
E-mail (up 16%): Growth in the e-mail category was driven largely by the rapid adoption of Google Gmail, which was up 71% to 60 million visitors year-over-year.
News/Information (up 15%): Growth in the News/Information category was driven largely by MSN News & Weather (up 131% to 25 million worldwide visitors), Yahoo! News (up 44% year-over-year to 104 million worldwide visitors), and New York Times Digital (up 20% to 68 million worldwide visitors).
Games (up 14%): The Games category was driven by sites like Nintendo.com (up 157% to 19 million worldwide visitors), EA Online (up 13% to 27 million worldwide visitors), and Yahoo! Games (up 10% to 58 million worldwide visitors).
