Top sites for news and current events
Nielsen/NetRatings ranked top online properties for current events and news.
Top Online Current Events & Global News Destinations
| Online property | Unique Audience (000) |
Active Reach (%) |
| AOL News | 6,814 | 6.43 |
| Yahoo! News | 6,026 | 5.69 |
| CNN | 5,792 | 5.47 |
| MSNBC | 4,150 | 3.92 |
| Gannett Newspapers and Newspaper Division | 2,339 | 2.21 |
| NYTimes.com | 2,192 | 2.07 |
| UsaToday.com | 1,961 | 1.85 |
| Knight Ridder Digital | 1,894 | 1.79 |
| Internet Broadcasting Systems Inc. | 1,832 | 1.73 |
| Tribune Newspapers | 1,779 | 1.68 |
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Published on: November 29, 2004 Department: Web traffic
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- Most popular travel sites: Hotels.com, TripAdvisor, Marriott
- Visits to Vatican site up 452% in March-April 2005
- Top search terms for travel agencies
- Sony PSP searches up 119% in the second half of March 2005
- 68% of Web users filed taxes online
- Top New Zealand sites: XtraMSN.co.nz, Trademe.co.nz, Xtra.co.nz
- WashingtonPost.com gets roughly 6 mln visitors a month
- eBay traffic down for 9 consecutive months
- 15 mln unique visitors visited NYTimes.com in March 2005, 5.9 mln RSS pageviews
- 2.2 mln people visited IRS.gov on April 12th and 13th
- Online gambling traffic up 45% in UK
- Top automotive sites: eBay Motors, Nascar.com, AutoTrader.com
- Top application Web sites: Windows Media Player, AOL IM, MSN Messenger
- Young US adults’ interest in social security reform grows 104% in March 2005
- Top Web sites visited by US teenagers
- Traffic to UK Treasury Web site up 703% in spring 2005
- Top February electronics sites: BestBuy.com, eBay Electronics,
- Kazaa Web site traffic down 71%, LimeWire up 1876% in February 2005
- 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!
- E-greetings site traffic down 36.7% on Valentine’s Day 2005
- SuperBowl ads increase traffic to GoDaddy by 260%, Cialis.com by 155%, Tabasco.com by 119%
- eDiets traffic up 126%, Weight Watchers up 77% in January 2005
- 20.5 mln Web users visited tax sites in January 2005
- New York Times received 16.4 mln unique visitors in January 2005
- 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