Posts Tagged ‘ Social Networks ’

Visits to Gmail surpass YouTube

For the past two weeks, the market share of US Internet visits to Gmail has been higher than visits to YouTube. Previously, YouTube consistently ranked 10th among all websites by market share of visits until the week ending Jan. 10, 2009, where Gmail moved up one rank to reach #10. The websites have been swapping [...][ READ MORE ]

YouTube Site Search – Lil Wayne Tops

Today we are releasing data and analysis on the top 50 search terms entered into YouTube’s own search engine, revealing that 72% of searches are music related. We did this analysis using our Conversions technology which we use for custom projects for clients. We, on the Hitwise research team, requested this data when we saw [...][ READ MORE ]

Twitter catches up to Digg

Twitter has become a popular pastime for many who like to update their daily thoughts and activities, as well as for the voyeurs who just enjoy reading the tweets. Last week, the market share of visits to Twitter surpassed Digg for the first time since launch and was ranked #84 (one above Digg at #85) [...][ READ MORE ]

Facebook Traffic Reaches Peak – Christmas Eve

On Christmas Day 2007 Facebook reached a peak in traffic that wasn’t surpassed until July 2008. Traffic reached a new high on Christmas Eve 2008 when Facebook saw its highest ever traffic level – reaching 2.18% of all US Internet visits compared with 1.42% average for November. The site reached a ranking of 5th among [...][ READ MORE ]

YouTube Tipping Point Question

This morning I was reading an excellent piece on Ars Technica asking the question Did “Lazy Sunday” make YouTube’s $1.5 billion sale possible?. I looked back at our data and blog posts over the past few years to see whether we can help answer the question. To remind readers, “Lazy Sunday” refers to a Saturday [...][ READ MORE ]

LinkedIn Success Factors and Threats

Yesterday, LinkedIn launched an ad network that will allow select sites to target its users when they visit those partner sites. Why, when most social networks are having trouble attracting advertisers, is LinkedIn doing so well? And what possible threats lie ahead for the professional network? Let me qualify what I mean by doing well… [...][ READ MORE ]

Back to the Books and Seasonal Impact on Web Traffic

As students return to school, there are some predictable changes in internet traffic as well as some clear differences with last year. I looked at category traffic levels for all of the parent categories that we track at Hitwise along with some of the larger sub-categories (Search Engines, Social Networking and Forums and Email). The [...][ READ MORE ]

Twitter – This Week’s TIME Science of Search Column

Read our latest Science of Search column at TIME.com. If you look at the age demographics of Twitter closer to its genesis in 2006 you’ll find that the age demographics of visitors to the site skewed almost entirely to the 18-24 year old demographic. This week’s column examines some of the Mosaic segments that are [...][ READ MORE ]

Friendster – Could it be Making a Comeback?

Check out my latest guest blog on the New York Times Freakonomics blog. Tweet[ READ MORE ]

Top 20 Web 2.0 Websites

Two weeks ago when I posted an entry about Google’s interest in Digg (the deal fell through) I wondered what other big web 2.0 properties remain independent. The following table lists 20 of the top Web 2.0 properties based on share of US Internet visits. I have loosely used the definition of Web 2.0 provided [...][ READ MORE ]