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LinkedIn Traffic Up 323% in Past Year, Users More Likely to be on Gmail
Posted on Jul 13 2007 by LeeAnn Prescott
Have you been getting a flurry in LinkedIn invitations in the past few months? I have been receiving a few requests a week, so I wasn’t surprised to find that the market share of US visits to LinkedIn was up 323% in the past year (week ending 7/7/07 vs week ending 7/8/06), and up 17% [...]
Flickr Traffic up 38% in Past Four Weeks, Now #2 Photo Site
Posted on Jul 09 2007 by LeeAnn Prescott
In June, Yahoo! Photos began to close, and users are being encouraged to join Flickr. Later in the month, Yahoo! began including Flickr images in Yahoo! Image Search. These efforts have resulted in an increase in Flickr’s US market share of 38% in the past four weeks (week ending 7/7/07 vs. week ending 6/9/07). Flickr [...]
Social Networking for Moms, Retirees, and the Ill
Posted on Jul 03 2007 by LeeAnn Prescott
Often we get asked about up-and-coming social networks. Three focused communities have been growing rapidly this year: CafeMom, a network for mothers, Daily Strength, a support community for those with health issues and other life problems, and Eons, a social network for the 50+ set. Here are some stats on these sites: CafeMom seems to [...]
YouTube: 50% More Traffic than Other Video Sites Combined
Posted on Jun 27 2007 by LeeAnn Prescott
YouTube’s growth has not begun to slow yet this year. Hitwise traffic data shows that the market share of US visits to YouTube has increased by 70% when comparing January 2007 to May 2007 (this only includes site visits, not streams or streams from views on embedded videos). In comparison, the market share of visits [...]
Gossip Blog Traffic Spikes as Paris Hilton Goes to Jail
Posted on Jun 12 2007 by LeeAnn Prescott
Paris Hilton entered jail on June 3 for violating her probation in a drunk-driving case. In true Paris fashion, she managed to make headlines even in jail, by going home for supposed medical reasons, re-entering jail, and talking to Barbara Walters about her newfound maturity. The gossip blogs, of course were flooded with commentary, rumors, [...]
Shopping, Search, and MySpace
Posted on Jun 05 2007 by LeeAnn Prescott
How have sources of traffic to Shopping and Classifieds websites changed over the past year? In May 2007, the Hitwise Shopping & Classifieds category received 24.95% of its upstream visits from search engines. This number increased by only 0.7% since May 2006, but the balance of search engines sending traffic has changed in favor of [...]
Revolution Health Traffic Doubles in 4 Weeks
Posted on May 31 2007 by LeeAnn Prescott
This Wednesday AOL Founder Steve Case spoke at D5 about his new venture, Revolution Health. Revolution Health is setting out to be far more than just a health information source on the web, but it is already succeeding on that front. For the week ending May 26, 2007, Revolution Health was ranked #11 in the [...]
Google and FeedBurner – Strong Growth in the Blogosphere
Posted on May 22 2007 by LeeAnn Prescott
Rumors have been flying since last week that Google might acquire FeedBurner. The FeedBurner site is mainly a destination for bloggers seeking to measure their feed and blog stats, and US traffic has grown by 204% over the past year (April 2006 to April 2007). This reflects not only the growth of blogging in general, [...]
Facebook Visits up 106% Since Opening Up in September
Posted on May 21 2007 by LeeAnn Prescott
Today’s Hitwise press release updated April figures for social networking sites: MySpace still dominates the category with nearly 80% market share of visits to the top 20 sites. US Visits to MySpace increased by 70% from April 2006 to April 2007, while visits to Facebook were up 126% and visits to Bebo were up 184%. [...]
Swimwear and Diets – The Search Correlation
Posted on May 17 2007 by LeeAnn Prescott
Swimsuit season is upon us – magazine racks are full of headlines promising not only to help us find the perfect swimsuit for our body types, but also the perfect diet and fitness plan to help us look our best on the beach. Not surprisingly, it turns out there is a seasonal correlation between ‘swimwear’ [...]