LONDON, January 30 /PRNewswire/ --
- Monster Leads The Category With More Than 6 Million Visitors Per Month
comScore, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its Q4 2007 rankings of the largest careers services & development sites in Europe, based on data from the comScore World Metrix audience measurement service.
Approximately 53.9 million Europeans visited a career services and development site during an average month during the fourth quarter of 2007, averaging 3.5 visits per visitor.
Top Ten European Career Services & Development Sites Ranked by Total European Unique Visitors (000)(i) Age 15+ Total Europe - Home & Work Locations Q4 2007 Average Average Monthly Unique Monthly Visits Visitors (000) Per Visitor Property during Q4 2007 during Q4 2007 Total European Internet Audience 229,690 55.1 Career Services and Development 53,901 3.5 Monster 6,121 2.3 Stepstone 2,854 1.8 ANPE Sites 2,765 4.1 Bundesagentur fur Arbeit 2,516 2.7 JOBCENTREPLUS.GOV.UK 2,423 3.1 Anuntis Segundamano - InfoJobs 2,365 3.7 CareerBuilder LLC 2,093 1.3 TALENTS.FR 1,636 2.9 PRACUJ.PL 1,516 2.3 Totaljobs.com Sites 1,434 1.8
(i) Excludes traffic from public computers such as Internet cafes or access from mobile phones or PDAs.
Monster maintained its position as the most popular site in the category with over 6 million visitors -- more than twice the number of visitors to its closest competitor. Stepstone ranked 2nd with 2.9 million visitors, followed closely by ANPE Sites with 2.8 million visitors and Bundesagentur fur Arbeit with 2.5 million visitors.
"With nearly 54 million visitors in a typical month during the fourth quarter of 2007, the career services and development category continues to attract a significant share of the total European Internet audience," said Bob Ivins, EVP of European Markets for comScore. "Traffic to these sites represents a bellwether for the job market, and if economic conditions worsen over the coming months and cause an increase in the unemployment rate, we can expect to see visitation activity at these sites climb."
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Jamie Gavin of comScore, Inc., +44-(0)-207-099-1775, worldpress@comscore.com
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