Facebook Visit increased 194% in last year
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 in September 2009. The 58 percent was the highest among all social networking sites sites, as U.S. visits to Facebook increased 194 percent in September 2009 compared with September 2008. MySpace received the second-highest market share of U.S. visits for the month, with 30 percent.
| Market share of U.S. Internet visits to top five social networking Web sites | ||||||
|
Rank |
Name | Domain |
September 2009 |
August 2009 |
September 2008 |
Year-over-year percent change |
|
1 |
www.facebook.com |
58.59% |
55.15% |
19.94% |
194% |
|
|
2 |
MySpace | www.myspace.com |
30.26% |
33.00% |
66.84% |
-55% |
|
3 |
Tagged | www.tagged.com |
2.38% |
2.36% |
1.62% |
47% |
|
4 |
www.twitter.com |
1.84% |
1.95% |
0.15% |
1170% |
|
|
5 |
myYearbook | www.myyearbook.com |
1.05% |
1.16% |
1.76% |
-40% |
| Note: Data is based on a custom category of 155 of the leading social networking Web sites ranked by market share of U.S. visits, which is the percentage of online traffic to the domain or category, from the Experian Hitwise sample of 10 million U.S. Internet users. Experian Hitwise measures more than 1 million unique Web sites daily, including subdomains of larger Web sites. Experian Hitwise categorizes Web sites into industries on the basis of subject matter and content, as well as market orientation and competitive context. | ||||||
| Source: Experian Hitwise | ||||||
Source : Facebook Visits Increased 194 Percent in Past Year
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