Posts Tagged ‘ Top UK websites ’

Angry Birds get beaks into top 10 online retailers

Tweet Looking back at 2010 there were a number of games which left a profound mark on the industry. According to my esteemed colleague and resident Hitwise games guru James Murray: “Blizzard’s superb RTS sequel StarCraft 2, renegade space RPG Mass Effect 2 and legendary FPS Call of Duty: Black Ops all raised the bar [...][ READ MORE ]

Facebook accounts for 1 in 6 UK page views, but is it reaching saturation point?

Tweet Facebook is the second most visited website in the UK: in June it accounted for 7.14% of all UK Internet visits and over half (54.48%) of all visits to a social networking websites. In terms of total visits it continues to trail Google UK (9.59% market share in June) and, as we’ve highlighted before, [...][ READ MORE ]

Social networks now more popular than search engines in the UK

Tweet Social networks now receive more UK Internet visits than search engines. During May, social networks accounted for 11.88% of UK Internet visits and search engines accounted for 11.33%. May was the first ever month that social networks have been more popular than search engines in the UK. Facebook accounts for 55% of all UK [...][ READ MORE ]

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 ]

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 ]

Top 10 websites of 2008

Tweet We published the results of the Hitwise UK Online Performance Awards today. These list the 10 most visited websites in the UK during 2008 for over 60 industry categories. You can see the full list on the awards microsite, but here I thought I’d highlight the top sites in three categories that have experienced [...][ READ MORE ]