Top 50 Sites and Properties of August 1999

The Top 50 Digital Media/Web sites of August 1999, ranked by unique visitors, according to Media Metrix.

Here are the Top 50 Digital Media Web sites and properties for the month of August 1999 ranked by unique audience according to Media Metrix. These rankings include home and work access.

Rank Digital Media/Web Property Unique Visitors
(000)
1 AOL Network 53,426
2 Yahoo Sites 40,237
3 Microsoft Sites 35,019
4 Lycos 29,379
5 Go Network 20,262
6 Excite@Home 16,062
7 Amazon 12,542
8 Time Warner Online 11,748
9 Go2Net Network 11,095
10 AltaVista 10,224
11 LookSmart 9,893
12 RealSite Portfolio 9,536
13 Bluemountainarts.com 9,168
14 Xoom.com Sites 9,144
15 About.com 8,894
16 eBay 8,838
17 ZDNet site 8,550
18 CNET 8,514
19 Snap Sites 8,334
20 Goto.com 7,076
21 Juno 6,988
22 AT&T Web Sites 6,647
23 Infospace Impressions 6,447
24 Viacom Online 6,380
25 The Weather Channel 5,573
26 FortuneCity Global Community 5,040
27 iVillage.com 5,019
28 barnesandnoble.com 4,819
29 The Women.com Networks 4,623
30 Sony Online 4,398
31 Earthlink.net 4,334
32 CDNow 4,332
33 Snowball 4,320
34 Macromedia 4,273
35 CitySearch-Ticketmaster 4,234
36 Mypoints.com 4,103
37 Sportsline USA 4,050
38 Ask Jeeves 3,973
39 Travelocity.com 3,873
40 Mindspring 3,823
41 News Corp. Online 3,779
42 Freeshop Network 3,705
43 Porncity.net 3,666
44 The Uproar Network 3,604
45 The Learning Co. Sites 3,577
46 IDG.net 3,551
47 Valupage.com 3,543
48 Mapquest.com 3,516
49 The Globe.com Sites 3,489
50 Treeloot.com 3,468

Rank Digital Media/Web Site Unique Visitors
(000)
1 yahoo.com 33,398
2 aol.com 29,333
3 msn.com 28,079
4 geocities.com 21,389
5 netscape.com 19,809
6 go.com 18,496
7 microsoft.com 18,031
8 lycos.com 14,857
9 excite.com 14,149
10 hotmail.com 13,868
11 passport.com 13,677
12 angelfire.com 12,156
13 amazon.com 11,618
14 tripod.com 11,261
15 AltaVista Search 9,185
16 Bluemountainarts.com 9,168
17 real.com 8,891
18 ebay.com 8,790
19 xoom.com 8,662
20 About.com 8,569
21 LookSmart 8,518
22 Snap.com 8,334
23 ZDNet 7,418
24 Hotbot.com 7,167
25 Goto.com 7,076
26 Infospace.com 6,425
27 icq.com 6,416
28 MSNBC.com 6,273
29 Weather.com 5,573
30 Digitalcity.com 5,372
31 barnesandnoble.com 5,198
32 CNET Software/Downloads 4,819
33 Simplenet.com 4,589
34 iVillage Sites 4,535
35 Sony Online 4,507
36 Pathfinder.com 4,398
37 Expedia 4,395
38 Sidewalk.com 4,372
39 Earthlink.net 4,368
40 CDNow 4,334
41 FortuneCity.com 4,305
42 CNN.com 4,268
43 att.net 4,163
44 mypoints.com 4,156
45 Sportsline USA 4,133
46 askjeeves.com 4,103
47 Warner Bros. Online 4,050
48 Travelocity.com 3,995
49 Go2Net.com 3,934
50 Broadcast.com 3,873

Definitions: A web property is one that offers more than one site. Unique visitors is the number of total users who visited the site in the past month. All unique visitors are counted once and are in thousands. Each reach point represents approximately 620,000 unique visitors, but the actual number varies each month.

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