Hitwise has released its analysis of the most-visited web sites and most popular search terms for 2010. Facebook has moved from the third spot in 2009 to the top most-visited web site in 2010, accounting for 8.93% of all U.S. visits between January and November 2010. Google.com ranked second with 7.19% of visits, followed by [...] Read →
Hitwise reports that, for the week ending March 13, 2010, Facebook passed Google to become the most visited website for the week in the U.S. Facebook.com had previously reached the #1 ranking on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and New Year’s Day, as well as the weekend of March 6th and 7th, but this is the first [...] Read →
According to a ReadWriteWeb analysis of Hitwise numbers, Facebook drives 350 times as much traffic to other websites in the “news and media” category (3.5%) as Google Reader does (.01%). However, Facebook, Google News (1.4%). and Google Reader togetheraccount for less than 5% of news sites’ total traffic. The #1, 2 and 3 drivers of traffic to news [...] Read →
U.S. visits to social networking sites have increased 62 percent year over year; visits from 55 and older age group have increased 77 percent New York, N.Y., Oct. 9, 2009 – Experian® Hitwise® announced today that Facebook accounted for 58.59 percent of all U.S. visits among a custom category of 155 social networking Web sites [...] Read →
During the first week of September, Facebook captured nearly 58% of visits in the social networking custom category, according to new data from research firm Hitwise. MySpace — which was the top dog in social networking as recently as May — now trails Facebook significantly with a mere 31% share of the market.Visits to the [...] Read →