Posts Tagged ‘ Social Networks ’

2009 online: the year in review

Tweet The end of the year presents and excellent opportunity for reflection, and also for lists. Combining the two, I’ve decided to reflect on the last year of online activity in the UK by providing a list of our most popular and commented on blogs over the last 12 months. January Our analysis of the [...][ READ MORE ]

Facebook accounts for 1 in every 7 UK page views

Tweet Facebook accounted for 14.5% of all UK Internet page views during September 2009, equivalent to 1 in every 7. The social network is the second most visited website in the UK after Google UK, but because users view a much larger number of pages per visit, Facebook is the clear leader in terms of [...][ READ MORE ]

Twitter overtakes MySpace in the UK

Tweet Last week Twitter received more UK Internet visits than MySpace for the first time. As the chart below illustrates, for the week ending 29/08/09 Twitter.com picked up 1 in every 400 UK Internet visits and ranked as the 27th most visited website in the UK, one position above MySpace. A couple of points worth [...][ READ MORE ]

Voucher searches up 47.5% in a year

Tweet UK Internet searches for discount vouchers have increased by 47.5% over the last 12 months. The increase in searches for a portfolio of 4,500+ voucher-related search terms between the weeks ending 02/08/2008 and 01/08/2009 clearly reflects British consumers’ hunger for bargains and discounts during the recession. Vouchers offering everything from discounts at high end [...][ READ MORE ]

Content driven websites receive 73% more traffic than transactional ones

Tweet The chart on this slide illustrates the percentage of all UK Internet visits accounted for by the largest and most significant online categories – and how this situation has changed over the last three years. As you can see, there are a number of categories that have significantly increased their share of visits – [...][ READ MORE ]

Friendfeed, Facebook and Twitter

Tweet Following today’s announcement that Facebook has purchased Friendfeed, I thought a few UK stats on the latter might be of interest. As the chart below illustrates, Friendfeed is a fast growing site, and its traffic has increased by 180% over the last 12 months. However, it remains a minnow when compared with both Facebook [...][ READ MORE ]

Twitter sending traffic to online media sites, but not online retailers

Tweet Thanks to everyone that listened to today’s Twitter webinar – we managed to reach capacity with 200 people logged in!. If you missed it, we’ll be posting the recording soon and will email / blog / tweet the link. In the meantime, you can see what people were saying about it on Twitter here. [...][ READ MORE ]

Facebook usernames: record traffic levels

Tweet Facebook experienced its busiest ever day in the UK yesterday (June 14th), following the launch of its new personalized username capability. The social network was the second busiest website in the UK (after Google UK) on Sunday, picking up 1 in every 19 UK Internet visits (5.17%). Traffic to the site was up 9.5% [...][ READ MORE ]

Initial Bing stats

Tweet Bing, Microsoft’s new search engine, was announced by Steve Balmer on May 28 and officially launched on June 3. I’ve held off putting up our initial UK statistics until now for a couple of reasons. Firstly, I couldn’t think of a funny – yet appropriate – headline containing the phrase ‘Bada Bing‘. As you [...][ READ MORE ]

Top 100 student websites in the UK

Tweet Yesterday I received a call from Sridhar Venkatapuram of the London Business School asking me about the online behaviour of students in the UK. I mentioned on Twitter that I was pulling a list of the 100 most popular websites amongst UK students, and received a number of requests to publish the list. Well, [...][ READ MORE ]