Jay Meattle

  • Top 20 Websites: Who’s In, Who’s Out

    First published on the Compete Blog on 7-Dec-2006.

    Key observations:

    • In October, there were exactly 20 domains with over 20 million unique visitors. This is it. The elite of the elite!
    • There is a gap of *33 million* unique visitors between #3 AOL and #4 MSN.
    • Name a website that gets between 80-100 million unique visitors a month? Trick question. There are none! The top 3 domains – Yahoo, Google and AOL – are truly in a class of their own. There were NO domains with unique visitor traffic between 80-100 million (see chart below).
    • Who is new on this list? (compared to Oct ’05):

      • Adobe.com
      • Live.com
      • Wikipedia.org
      • YouTube.com
    • Who is absent? (compared to Oct ’05):
      • Expedia.com
      • Monster.com
      • Paypal.com
      • Weather.com

      Interesting note: Even though Paypal.com and Weather.com fell out of the top-20, unique visitor traffic to those domains is actually up.

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