Facebook Remains Most Visited Site, Recipe Sites Seeing Increased Traffic
The latest figures from Experian Hitwise show that Facebook was the most visited website ranked by visits for the week ending Dec. 11, while Google continues to dominate the search landscape.
Facebook took 9.95 percent of website visits for the week ending Dec. 11, followed by Google with 7.37 percent, Yahoo Mail with 3.09 percent, YouTube with 3.07 percent and Yahoo with 2.33 percent.
Yahoo Search followed with 1.41 percent, Bing with 1.16 percent, Windows Live Mail with 1.02 percent, Gmail with 0.98 percent and MSN with 0.91 percent, to round out the top 10.
For the four weeks ending Dec. 4, Google was the top search engine with 70.37 percent of searches. Yahoo followed with 15.07 percent, while Bing took 9.94 percent of the pie. Ask.com finished the period with 2.54 percent, while AOL was fifth with 1.44 percent of visits to search engines, according to Hitwise.
When ranked by visits, the search engines placed as follows: Google (65.03 percent), Yahoo (12.41 percent), Bing (10.21 percent), Ask.com with 2.14 percent and AOL with 1.28 percent.
Google Maps was the top travel site with 17.16 percent of all visits to the “Travel” industry for the week ending Dec. 11, followed by MapQuest with 6.61 percent and Expedia with 2.99 percent.
Facebook was, unsurprisingly, the top social networking website for the week ending Dec. 11, as it finished with 62.55 percent of visits to the “Computers and Internet – Social Networking and Forums” industry. YouTube followed with 19.31 percent, while Myspace had 2.97 percent of all visits to the industry.
“Craigslist” was the top retail search term in the “Shopping and Classifieds” industry with 2.79 percent of search clicks for the four weeks ending Dec. 4, followed by “ebay” with 2.03 percent and “walmart” with 1.26 percent.
With the holidays comes an increasing need for holiday recipes, which means more visits to recipe websites. This is precisely what Compete has observed in recent weeks, in line with trends from previous years.
Visits to Allrecipes.com, MyRecipes.com and FoodNetwork.com have trended upward since the beginning of the year. Spikes have been observed in December the past two years, and if trends hold, this year should be no different.
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http://www.hitwise.com/us/datacenter/main/dashboard-10133.html
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http://blog.compete.com/2010/12/13/i-can-smell-the-holiday-baking-already/
