Top hotel sites in Q1 2008

	Q1 2007	Q1 2008	Percent Change Y/Y
Intercontinental Hotel Brands	55.1	48.5	-12%
Holiday Inn	30.7	30.8	1%
Holiday Inn Express	16.2	18.8	16%
Crowne Plaza	13.4	7.9	-41%
Intercontinental	6.6	4.9	-26%
Source: comScore

Published on: June 27, 2008 Department: Web traffic

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Top parent companies for October 2005: Microsoft, Time Warner, Yahoo!
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Top parent companies in August 2005: Microsoft, Time Warner, Yahoo!
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Top image hosting sites: PhotoBucket, ImageShack, Putfile
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NOAA Web site traffic up 402%
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Home Depot traffic up 34% in July 2005
Top PC and electronics news sites: CNET, AOL Computers, IDG, Ziff Davis, ZDNet
Top UK sites by unique visitors: Google, Microsoft, MSN
Top UK sites by pageviews: eBay, Google, MSN
Top online dating sites: Yahoo! Personals, Match.com, Spark
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Top parent companies in July 2005: Microsoft, Time Warner, Yahoo!
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Top blogs by total visits: DrudgeReport, Fark, FreeRepublic, Gawker, Slashdot
Top bogs by unique audience: FreeRepublic, DrudgeReport, FleshBot, Gawker, Fark
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Kraft Food and Cooking traffic up 105% in the last week of July 2005
NASA.gov traffic up 101% in the last week of July 2005
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Eddie Bauer traffic up 63% in June 2005
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Top auto sites: eBay Motors, Kelley Blue Book, AutoTrader
Most popular news sites in June 2005: Yahoo! News, MSNBC, CNN, AOL News
MSN Image Search visits up 90% between Q1 and Q2 2005
Top real estate sites: Realtor, RentNet, HomeGain, Rent.com
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Top Internet brands in June 2005: Yahoo!, Microsoft, MSN, Google
Top parent companies in June 2005: Microsoft, Time Warner, Yahoo!
6 of 10 top PC hardware manufacturer sites had double-digit growth in May 2005
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Top food sites: Food Network, Kraft Foods, Allrecipes
Top airline sites: SouthWest, American, Delta
Top movie sites: IMDB, Yahoo! Movies, NetFlix, MSN Entertainment
Top sites for special occasions: USPS, UPS, 1-800-Flowers
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Top financial sites: Yahoo! Finance, AOL Personal Finance, MSN Money
Top global sites in May 2005: Yahoo!, Microsoft.com, MSN, Google, AOL
Web traffic to real estate sites from poor families jumps by 47%
Most popular Russian sites - Yandex, Rambler, Mail.ru, Google
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Most popular sports sites: ESPN, Yahoo! Sports, Fox Sports on MSN
Most popular news sites: Weather Channel, CNN, Yahoo! News
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Most popular travel sites: Hotels.com, TripAdvisor, Marriott
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Top application Web sites: Windows Media Player, AOL IM, MSN Messenger
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Traffic to UK Treasury Web site up 703% in spring 2005
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Top home and garden sites: eBay Home, HGTV, Home Depot
Top car sites: eBay Motors, Kelley Blue Book, MSN Autos
Top Web sites in February 2005: Yahoo!, Microsoft.com, MSN
Top February parent companies: Microsoft, Time Warner, Yahoo!
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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!
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Top personals sites: MySpace, Match.com, Yahoo! Personals
Top sports Web sites: ESPN, Yahoo! Sports, NFL
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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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