Posts Tagged ‘ News and Media ’

TV spoilers and Digital Spy

Tweet Anyone who uses Wikipedia or IMDB frequently will be used to the ‘spoiler warning’ notification when reading an entry on a book or film. While notifications in these and similar websites are designed to help you avoid spoilers, there are people who actively seek them out. The table below lists the top search term [...][ READ MORE ]

Sainsbury’s website downtime analysis

Tweet Yesterday the BBC reported that Sainsbury’s had suspended its online grocery store, and looking at the site this morning that still seems to be the case. One of the great things about Hitwise’s daily data is that we are able to track the impact of such changes in almost real time. The chart below [...][ READ MORE ]

Mortgage calculators up, 100% mortgages down

Tweet When Abbey last month became the last big bank to abandon 100 per cent mortgages, it did so in the face of the credit crunch and falling demand from buyers. As the graph below shows, the volume of UK internet searches for a portfolio of 80+ variations of terms related to 100% mortgages (the [...][ READ MORE ]

Blog traffic reaches all time high

Tweet UK Internet visits to weblogs reached an all time high last week. As the chart below illustrates, Blogs and Personal Websites accounted for 1.19% of all UK traffic, equivalent to one in every 84 internet visits. Taking the slightly longer view and looking at the monthly data, you can see that the market share [...][ READ MORE ]

iPhone website reaches a new high as rumour mill goes into overdrive

Tweet Apple is expected to launch a new version of its iPhone at the Apple World Wide Developers’ Conference in San Francisco this afternoon (UK time). As with all such events, the speculation amongst Apple fans and foes has almost reached fever pitch. Last week UK Internet visits to the iPhone website reached a new [...][ READ MORE ]

UK house prices: searches and sales

Tweet Heather Hopkins recently identified a correlation between house searches and house sales in the US. She compared searches for the term “homes for sale” with actual sales data from the American National Association of Realtors, and found that there was a very close correlation (.92). As you could expect, thanks to the sub-prime crisis [...][ READ MORE ]

Does the BBC dominate online news in the UK?

Tweet Later today the BBC Trust will release a report that aims to answer the question: does the corporation dominate the online news space at the expense of its commercial rivals? As I write this, the findings aren’t yet known, but the table below may provide some food for thought. It lists the market share [...][ READ MORE ]

Freesat proves popular online

Tweet The launch of Freesat, the free satellite TV service provided by the BBC and ITV in the UK, proved popular with online consumers during its launch week. UK Internet traffic to www.freesat.co.uk, the service’s online homepage, increased by 627% between the weeks ending May 3rd and May 10th, while UK Internet searches for the [...][ READ MORE ]

Google delivers over a third of all UK traffic – trademark changes will have a significant impact

Tweet The top 100 Google Internet properties sent over one third of all Internet traffic to websites in the UK during March 2008. A custom category consisting of the 100 most visited Google-owned web properties in the UK accounted for 36.55% of upstream traffic to All Categories of websites in the UK during March 2008, [...][ READ MORE ]

London Mayoral elections: what does the Internet data say?

Tweet A lot has been made about how the candidates and voters for the London Mayoral elections on May 1st have embraced the Internet like never before – at least in British political terms, as this is one area where the US remains well ahead of us Brits. So, how are the candidates doing online? [...][ READ MORE ]