LONDON, February 28 /PRNewswire/ --
- Travel, Career, Tax, and Real Estate Sites Experience Gains in the New Year
- Moneysupermarket.com up 79 Percent to 6.6 Million Visitors
comScore, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its January rankings of the largest and fastest-growing Internet properties and site categories in the U.K. based on data from the comScore World Metrix audience measurement service. The month saw increases to travel, career, tax, and real estate sites as U.K. Internet users took stock of the past year and made plans for 2008. Moneysupermarket.com grew 79 percent to 6.6 million visitors, becoming the U.K.'s 20th ranked property in January.
LONDON, February 28 /PRNewswire/ --
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Top Gaining Site Categories for January 2008
Top 10 Gaining Site Categories by Number of U.K. Unique Visitors January 2008 vs. December 2007 Total U.K., Age 15+ - Home and Work Locations(i) Source: comScore World Metrix Total Unique Visitors (000) Dec-2007 Jan-2008 % Change Total Internet : Total Audience 32,981 33,254 1% Car Rental 837 1,505 80% Career Resources 3,175 5,307 67% Job Search 2,471 4,128 67% Hotels/Resorts 7,072 10,864 54% Airlines 6,852 10,000 46% Online Travel Agents 9,480 13,534 43% Taxes 86 121 42% Training and Education 1,937 2,714 40% Real Estate 6,746 9,450 40% Career Services and Development 8,563 11,674 36% (i) Excludes traffic from public computers such as Internet cafes or access from mobile phones or PDAs.
LONDON, February 28 /PRNewswire/ --
Top Gaining Properties for January 2008
Top 10 Gaining Properties by Number of U.K. Unique Visitors(i) January 2008 vs. December 2007 Total U.K., Age 15+ - Home and Work Locations(ii) Source: comScore World Metrix Total Unique Visitors (000) Property Dec-2007 Jan-2008 % Change Total Internet : Total Audience 32,981 33,254 1% First Choice Holidays PLC 1,612 3,874 140% Arcandor AG 1,877 4,396 134% TUI Group 2,065 4,577 122% British Airways 1,963 3,564 82% Moneysupermarket.com Financial Group 3,699 6,627 79% Priceline.com Incorporated 1,651 2,864 73% Travelport 1,618 2,760 71% JOBCENTREPLUS.GOV.UK 1,825 3,111 70% Reed Elsevier Group 1,894 3,213 70% EasyGroup 2,506 4,237 69% (i) Ranking based on the top 100 U.K. properties in January 2008. (ii) Excludes traffic from public computers such as Internet cafes or access from mobile phones or PDAs.
Top 25 Properties for January 2008
Top 25 Properties by Number of U.K. Unique Visitors(i) January 2008 vs. December 2007 Total U.K., Age 15+ - Home and Work Locations(ii) Source: comScore World Metrix Total Unique Visitors Jan-08 Dec-07 (000) Rank Rank Property Jan-08 N/A N/A Total Internet : Total Audience 33,254 1 1 Google Sites 29,633 2 2 Microsoft Sites 28,102 3 3 eBay 21,363 4 4 Yahoo! Sites 21,208 5 5 BBC Sites 19,176 6 6 Amazon Sites 14,628 7 8 Ask Network 14,542 8 9 Wikipedia Sites 14,005 9 10 FACEBOOK.COM 12,840 10 15 Lycos Europe Sites 11,886 11 11 Fox Interactive Media 11,816 12 N/A AOL LLC(i) 11,372 13 14 BEBO.COM 11,359 14 13 Apple Inc. 11,217 15 18 DMGT 10,722 16 16 CNET Networks 9,525 17 12 Home Retail Group 9,219 18 17 Tesco Stores 8,827 19 20 British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) 8,097 20 60 Moneysupermarket.com Financial Group 6,627 21 23 Adobe Sites 6,554 22 31 News International 6,359 23 55 Expedia Inc 6,337 24 28 Virgin Group 6,270 25 25 Orange Sites 6,183 (i) Ranking based on the top 100 U.K. properties in January 2008. (i) Excludes traffic from public computers such as Internet cafes or access from mobile phones or PDAs. (iii) Beginning with January 2008 comScore data, Time Warner Network has now been divided into AOL LLC, which includes all AOL related entities, and Time Warner - Excluding AOL
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