Top Online Properties of October 2001
An examination of the top sites of October 2001 shows continued traffic to news and health sites as well as the beginnings of the holiday season.
Despite continued intense usage of news and health information sites, Internet users are also beginning to use the Web to plan for the holidays, according to comScore Networks.
Unique Internet visitors at both the U.S. and worldwide levels posted slight declines of just over 1 percent. Key sites showing declines in worldwide traffic included CNN.com (-27 percent), MSNBC.com (-45 percent), Time.com (-21 percent) and NYTimes.com (-23 percent). Of these, only MSNBC fell below its August level.
| Top 50 Properties of October 2001 U.S. and Worldwide |
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| Rank | Property | Unique Visitors | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct. | Sept. | U.S. (000) |
Worldwide (000) |
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| 1. | 1. | Microsoft Corp. | 98,405 | 229,371 |
| 2. | 3. | Yahoo Inc. | 91,674 | 202,648 |
| 3. | 2. | AOL Time Warner | 88,750 | 163,153 |
| 4. | 4. | Terra Lycos | 51,637 | 128,837 |
| 5. | 6. | Amazon.com Inc. | 40,433 | 78,227 |
| 6. | 5. | U.S. Government | 37,784 | 55,223 |
| 7. | 11. | Vivendi Universal | 34,914 | 69,495 |
| 8. | 7. | Primedia Inc. | 32,682 | 67,662 |
| 9. | 14. | eUniverse Inc. | 31,305 | 49,444 |
| 10. | 12. | eBay Inc. | 31,291 | 50,700 |
| 11. | 8. | Walt Disney Internet Group | 30,296 | 45,811 |
| 12. | 9. | CNET Networks Inc. | 29,138 | 71,096 |
| 13. | 13. | InfoSpace Inc. | 28,537 | 55,246 |
| 14. | 10. | At Home Corp. | 28,312 | 57,002 |
| 15. | 16. | Google Inc. | 26,927 | 72,244 |
| 16. | 17. | American Greetings | 26,419 | 44,614 |
| 17. | 15. | RealNetworks Inc. | 23,245 | 50,639 |
| 18. | 18. | Ask Jeeves Inc. | 23,024 | 42,965 |
| 19. | 25. | ColumbiaHouse | 21,702 | 32,509 |
| 20. | 21. | USA Networks Inc. | 21,537 | 30,432 |
| 21. | 20. | ClasssMates Online Inc. | 19,966 | 30,653 |
| 22. | 19. | Viacom Inc. | 17,505 | 28,811 |
| 23. | 24. | CMGI Inc. | 17,484 | 46,641 |
| 24. | 22. | Rank You Inc. | 16,656 | 35,173 |
| 25. | 32. | Homestead Technologies Inc. | 16,312 | 29,762 |
| 26. | 23. | Overture Services Inc. | 14,808 | 26,996 |
| 27. | 27. | EarthLink Inc. | 14,516 | 21,095 |
| 28. | 26. | Homestore.com Inc. | 14,167 | 17,900 |
| 29. | 31. | FortuneCity.com Inc. | 13,729 | 39,635 |
| 30. | 38. | Synapse Group Inc. | 13,403 | 18,972 |
| 31. | 43. | California Government | 13,186 | 21,174 |
| 32. | NA | United Online Inc. | 13,067 | 15,441 |
| 33. | 41. | CJB Management Inc. | 12,818 | 39,099 |
| 34. | 35. | iVillage Inc. | 12,777 | 19,075 |
| 35. | 39. | Verizon Communications Inc. | 12,522 | 15,107 |
| 36. | 33. | Bertelsmann AG | 12,240 | 23,626 |
| 37. | 47. | Providian Financial Corp. | 11,981 | 17,791 |
| 38. | 28. | The New York Times Co. | 11,942 | 15,746 |
| 39. | 37. | GameSpy Industries | 11,827 | 25,615 |
| 40. | 36. | iWon Inc. | 11,641 | 13,476 |
| 41. | 46. | InPhonic Inc. | 11,614 | 15,329 |
| 42. | 50. | MyFamily.com Inc. | 11,464 | 21,667 |
| 43. | 54. | MusicCity Networks | 10,935 | 24,447 |
| 44. | 30. | Gannett Co. Inc. | 10,735 | 14,022 |
| 45. | 49. | WebMD Corp. | 10,537 | 14,151 |
| 46. | 40. | The News Corp. | 10,066 | 21,767 |
| 47. | 65. | TMP Worldwide Inc. | 10,055 | 15,396 |
| 48. | 45. | Landmark Communications | 9,953 | 11,491 |
| 49. | 192. | Opt In Inc. | 9,861 | 12,468 |
| 50. | 60. | Sabre Inc. | 9,844 | 11,821 |
| Source: comScore | ||||
Definitions:
Property: netScore Properties represent an aggregate of web sites that are all controlled by a larger entity. The controlling entity must have at least a 50% ownership in the web site for the web site to be included in the aggregation.
Unique Visitors Worldwide (000s): Provides an unduplicated count of all individually identified machines, located throughout the world whose users understand the English language, that made a visit to a selected property or domain during a given analysis period.
Unique Visitors U.S. (000s):
Provides an unduplicated count of all individually identified machines located in the United States that made a visit to a selected property or domain during a given analysis period.
