July 12, 2006; 07:03 AM
Hitwise, a leading online competitive
intelligence service, announced that, for the first time, MySpace.com
is the number one ranked website in the U.S. based on market share of
visits. The MySpace website accounted for 4.46 percent of all
Internet visits in the U.S. for the week ending July 8, 2006.
MySpace.com has received a larger market share of visits for the past
two weeks propelling the website past Yahoo! Mail.
Weekly Market Share of Visits Ranking Among All Websites (U.S.)
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Rank Name Domain Market Share
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1 MySpace www.myspace.com 4.46%
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2 Yahoo! Mail mail.yahoo.com 4.42%
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3 Yahoo! www.yahoo.com 4.25%
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4 Google www.google.com 3.89%
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5 MySpace - Mail mail.myspace.com 2.85%
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6 MSN Hotmail www.hotmail.com 2.39%
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7 MSN www.msn.com 1.92%
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8 eBay www.ebay.com 1.59%
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9 Yahoo! Search search.yahoo.com 1.36%
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10 MSN Search search.msn.com 0.93%
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Data for the week ending July 8, 2006
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Source: Hitwise (www.hitwise.com)
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Among Social Networking sites in June 2006, MySpace accounted for
79.9 percent of the total market share of visits. Following MySpace,
was Facebook which received 7.5 percent of visits, ranked third was
Xanga with 3.8 percent. Yahoo! 360 and Bebo rounded out the top five
sites with 1.1 and .98 percent respectively. The remaining social
networking websites from the custom category accounted for 6.5
percent of U.S. visits. Bebo increased its market share of visits by
21 percent from May 2006, the largest percentage increase among the
Social Networking websites.
"MySpace continues its meteoric rise, to now claim the number
one spot for all Internet visits in the U.S.," said Bill Tancer,
general manager of Global Research at Hitwise. "We are still
discovering the Internet laws of gravity as it relates to a site's
potential to grow on the Internet. The fact that MySpace was
virtually unknown by the mainstream Internet users two years ago and
now claims the top position, demonstrates how hyper-competitive the
Internet really is."
Monthly Market Share of Visits Among Top Social Networking Websites
(U.S.)
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Domain June-06 May-06 April-06
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www.myspace.com 79.97% 77.20% 76.07%
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www.thefacebook.com 7.58% 8.73% 8.24%
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www.xanga.com 3.81% 4.40% 5.29%
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360.yahoo.com 1.13% 1.29% 1.38%
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www.bebo.com 0.98% 0.77% 0.73%
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www.tagged.com 0.92% 0.97% 1.17%
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www.classmates.com 0.83% 1.01% 1.30%
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www.hi5.com 0.78% 1.06% 1.19%
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spaces.msn.com 0.75% 1.29% 1.41%
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www.sconex.com 0.64% 0.70% 0.81%
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www.gaiaonline.com 0.57% 0.50% 0.50%
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www.bolt.com 0.52% 0.43% 0.21%
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www.friendster.com 0.46% 0.53% 0.58%
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www.orkut.com 0.30% 0.33% 0.30%
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www.myyearbook.com 0.26% 0.25% 0.24%
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www.crushspot.com 0.18% 0.18% 0.18%
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www.migente.com 0.16% 0.18% 0.19%
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www.tagworld.com 0.13% 0.14% 0.14%
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www.faceparty.com 0.02% 0.02% 0.03%
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www.xuqa.com 0.02% 0.02% 0.04%
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Source: Hitwise (www.hitwise.com)
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About Hitwise:
Hitwise is the leading online competitive intelligence service.
Each day, Hitwise monitors how more than 25 million Internet users
interact with over 500,000 websites across 160 industry categories.
By monitoring more people, more websites, more often, Hitwise
provides marketers with timely and actionable marketing insights on
how their online presence compares to competitive websites. Companies
use this information to maximize the return on their online
investment, in efforts such as affiliate programs, search marketing,
online advertising, content development and lead generation.
Hitwise collects Internet usage information via a combination of
ISP data partnerships and opt-in panels, and complies with local and
international privacy legislation as audited by
PricewaterhouseCoopers. Founded in 1997, Hitwise is a privately held
company, headquartered in New York City and operates in the US, UK,
Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Singapore.
More information about the Hitwise Competitive Intelligence
service is available at www.hitwise.com. For up to date analysis on
online trends, please visit the Hitwise Intelligence-Analyst blog at
http://weblogs.hitwise.com.
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