Posts Tagged ‘ Maps ’

UK Internet Map (as featured on the BBC’s Virtual Revolution)

Tweet If you managed to catch the first episode of the BBC’s excellent Internet documentary, Virtual Revolution, on Saturday night you may have noticed occasional flashes of “Source: Experian Hitwise” at the bottom of your screen. In amongst interviews with such luminaries as Tim Berners Lee, Jimmy Wales and Bill Gates, the Beeb built a [...][ READ MORE ]

How do people search for travel in the UK?

Tweet Today we present another guest post from Richard Seymour, Experian Hitwise Client Intelligence Analyst. The data is based on the excellent research that he and Iain Congdon, another Experian Hitwise analyst in the UK, carried out for our recent Global Online Travel Update webinar. In the UK, Travel websites rely on search engines for [...][ READ MORE ]

Increase in traffic to train, bus and coach websites

Tweet Despite positive news from Virgin Atlantic today, there is no doubt that these are tough times for the airline industry. UK Internet traffic to websites in our Aviation – Commercial Airlines category (which is dominated by the airline’s homepages) was down by 19.2% between April 2008 and April 2009. However, one area of the [...][ READ MORE ]

Google Maps visits up 41% following UK Street View launch

Tweet Following the launch of Google Street View in the UK yesterday (19 March 2009), UK Internet visits to Google Maps UK Increased by 41%. This was the busiest ever day for Google Maps in the UK, and as a result the site received its highest ever ranking, becoming the 20th most visited site overall. [...][ READ MORE ]

Maps Traffic Flat but Live Local Gets Boost from Tesco

Tweet Despite innovations in online maps, UK consumer demand for online maps has not grown in the past year. As reported in my Site Seeing column in today’s Guardian, Multimap remains the #1 Maps website, based on share of UK visits, with most of its traffic coming from store locator services. Google Maps is #2, [...][ READ MORE ]