1. Google UK
8.39%
2. Facebook
4.91%
3. Windows Live Mail
2.78%
4. Google
2.07%
5. eBay UK
1.97%
6. YouTube
1.89%
7. MSN UK
1.62%
8. BBC Homepage
1.23%
9. Microsoft
1.14%
10. BBC News
1.04%
11. Yahoo! UK & Ireland
0.99%
12. Yahoo! UK & Ireland Mail
0.80%
13. Wikipedia
0.76%
14. Google UK Image Search
0.62%
15. Bebo
0.62%
16. BBC Sport
0.59%
17. Gmail
0.48%
18. Sky Sports
0.44%
19. Amazon UK
0.43%
20. Bing
0.39%
Its always interesting to review the top 20 websites (well for me it is) and its also strange I could predict the top 3 or 4 each week. Although website popularity rarely changes too much month to month its good to see some surprises in there.
To break it down –
4 search engines were in the top 20, this is not including google image search,
Two sports site are also in top 20, what surprised me was BBC was more popular than a bigger and possibly better service Sky Sports.
Facebook was number two, thats 13 places above its nearest rival bebo, one surprise was twitter but with all the 3rd party applications you can use Twitter with its not too surprising.
Hotmail aka live mail is the most webmail service, more popular than Yahoo mail and Gmail, all three being in the top 20. Just a thought… Maybe is facebook took on and allowed email addresses direct into facebook they could wipe out the free webmail alternatives.
Youtube continues to be extremely popular and helps Google dominate the top twenty visited sites, that 5 sites in the top twenty.
Wikipedia the online encyclopaedia although has come into some criticism recently, still seems the most trusted human edited service on the internet with 0.76% of visits.
Lastly, two big online shopping power houses still buck the trend and stay strong in top twenty, auction site Ebay are number 5, obviously it provides buyers and sellers a safe and secure way to sell but also seems to be offering a better peer to peer shopping experience than any other, rival Amazon is 19th. Wonder what amazon could do to break Ebay’s strong hold?
Danny Denhard