<nettime> Net Stats: The most visited Websites

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Nielsen//NetRatings: Top 25 Web Sites by Property

Jan. 3-9, 2000
Ranking of the Most Visited Web Properties

Property   Unique Audience   Time Per Person

(000) (hrs:min:sec)

1. AOL Websites 25,491 0:12:17
2. Yahoo! 22,024 0:25:22
3. MSN 15,628 0:22:17
4. Lycos Network 9,768 0:12:12
5. Excite@Home 9,362 0:14:22
6. GO Network 6,664 0:12:40
7. Microsoft 6,032 0:06:28
8. NBCi 5,455 0:09:24
9. AltaVista 4,712 0:12:06
10. Amazon 4,308 0:09:23
11. eBay 4,136 1:00:33
12. Time Warner 4,012 0:09:23
13. About.com 3,671 0:05:12
14. The Go2Net Network 3,143 0:07:34
15. ZDNet 2,779 0:07:45
16. CBS 2,637 0:16:07
17. LookSmart 2,418 0:04:55
18. CNET 2,348 0:08:03
19. AT&T 1,976 0:13:55
20. Fortune City 1,909 0:03:14
21. Real Networks 1,872 0:03:38
22. Travelocity 1,842 0:12:43
23. Ask Jeeves 1,828 0:10:08
24. Sportsline.com 1,786 0:08:34
25. Viacom International 1,781 0:10:19 *T

Example:
The data indicate that nearly 1.8 million home Internet users visited at
least one of the Viacom International-owned sites during the week, and each
person spent, on average, a total of 10 minutes and 19 seconds at one or
more of their sites.

Notes:
Rankings are based on audience measurement of people who have access to the
Internet from home. A property is defined as a consolidation of multiple
domains and URLs owned by a single entity. Reach is a measure of the
unduplicated audience that visits a property. The data are expressed as the
percentage of the total universe of Internet users who logged onto the
Internet at least once during the reporting period. <....>
Nielsen//NetRatings, the audience measurement service from Nielsen Media
Research and NetRatings, Inc., collects data from more than 38,000
panelists as they use the Internet at home.


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