Top classifieds sites: Craigslist, Trader Publishing, Cars.com

CraigsList, sites by Trader Publishing, Cars.com and Apartments.com were the leading online classifieds sites in September 2005.

Top online classifieds sites
Site	Unique audience, 000		Growth
	Sep 04	Sep 05	YTY
CraigsList.org	3,425	8,764	156
Trader Publishing Company	4,305	8,180	90
Cars.com	2,767	3,749	35
Apartments.com	1,560	2,102	35
Abracat Property	1,364	959	-30
HomeScape.com	596	826	39
PuppyDogWeb.com	590	799	35
LiveDeal.com	767	797	4
Tribe Networks	N/A	721	N/A
RegionalHelpWanted.com	964	685	-29
Yahoo! Classifieds	979	573	-42
USCity.net	199	426	113
BackPage.com	N/A	417	N/A
MySpace Classifieds	N/A	401	N/A
Hoobly.com	221	388	75
Source: Pew Internet and American Life Project

Published on: November 30, 2005 Department: Web traffic

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Top 10 sports sites in New Zealand
Top health sites: eBay Sports, WebMD, AOL Health
Top Web sites for January 2005: Yahoo, Microsoft.com, MSN
Top Web parent companies for January 2005: Microsoft, Time Warner, Yahoo!
Who visits online personals
Top personals sites: MySpace, Match.com, Yahoo! Personals
Top sports Web sites: ESPN, Yahoo! Sports, NFL
48 mln Americans visited e-card sites in December 2004
TurboTax traffic up 99%, IRS Web site traffic up 24%
USA Today Web traffic up 51% in December 2004
Top education and career sites: Monster, CareerBuilder, Yahoo! HotJobs
4.1 mln listen to online radio
32 mln Americans read blogs
45% of American Internet users went for a virtual tour
Top apparel and beauty sites: eBay, Old Navy, Avon
Top European dating sites: Match.com and Meetic
Top toys sites for kids: Disney, eBay Toys, Cartoon Network
Top news sources quoted by blogs: Yahoo! News, NYT, BBC
68 mln Americans browsed travel sites in November 2004
Most trafficked AOL properties: AOL.com, MapQuest, AIM, CNN, Netscape
40.2% of all online time is spent on content sites
Top sites for news and current events
20 mln users access My Yahoo!
Top home and garden sites: eBay Home, Home Depot, Lowe’s
Top automotive sites: eBay Motors, AOL Auto, AutoTrader.com
Election day Web traffic: Instapundit, WashingtonPost traffic doubles
Major news sources for political information: TV (78%), newspapers (38%), radio (16%), Internet (15%), magazines (4%)
Top 10 Web brands for September: Yahoo, MSN, Microsoft, AOL, Google
Microsoft, Yahoo and Time Warner are top destinations in August
USAToday.com got 8.1 mln unique visits in August 2004
Travel, health, entertainment and news are top Internet searches
Visitor stickiness: AOL - 340 minutes, Yahoo - 260, MSN - 147
Traffic to career sites up 30% in June
First banking Web site breaks into top 50
Blog traffic up 61% in 6 months
Online dating to generate $398 mln in 2004
18.8% of US Web surfers visit porn sites, 5.5% visit search engines
Top sites for February
25% of US Internet users visited porn sites
Top 10 entertainment Web sites
32% of Canadians and 18% of Americans visit humor sites
Top dating sites: Match.com, MatchNet, MeetIC.com, Yahoo, Lavalife
2-7% of Americans blog, 11% visit blogs
Most popular sites: Yahoo, Google, MSN, AOL
Microsoft.com Web site statistics
ComScore: 25% of Internet users visited dating sites
Nielsen/NetRatings on online dating profits

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Top classifieds sites: Craigslist, Trader Publishing, Cars.com

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