Got curious about how the different traffic rating services ranked the top 10 websites in the United States last month.<\/p>\n
Here’s what I found:<\/p>\n
Alexa<\/a><\/strong>: Nielsen NetRatings<\/a><\/strong>: comScore<\/a><\/strong>: Yahoo!<\/a>, save for Nielsen’s list, is the most popular website in the USA, or do I dare say the whole world? That can be largely attributed to their ubiquitous email service, Yahoo! Mail<\/a>. However, Google<\/a> is, hands down, the most widely used search engine, commanding a 53.6% market share. Yahoo!’s search pales in comparison, capturing only 19.9% of the market. Interestingly, in July this year, Nielsen reported that 63% of those who used Google also searched in Yahoo! and MSN. This phenomenon is called an “overlap”. Notably, MSN<\/a> had the highest overlap rate of 84%. This shows that users are not always satisfied with the search results they see, thus they check other search engines.<\/p>\n Seven websites or online properties were consistenly in the top 10. They are Yahoo!, Google, MSN, Myspace<\/a>, Ebay<\/a>, Windows Live<\/a> and Wikipedia<\/a>. Amazon<\/a> didn’t make the list due to its 11th ranking with Alexa. I am doubting if Craigslist<\/a> receives enough traffic to merit a place in a top 10 list as it ranks only 23rd and 28th in Quantcast<\/a> and comScore<\/a> respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Got curious about how the different traffic rating services ranked the top 10 websites in the United States last month. Here’s what I found: Alexa: 1. Yahoo! 2. Google 3. Myspace 4. Youtube 5. Facebook 6. MSN 7. Ebay 8. Windows Live 9. Wikipedia 10. Craigslist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-statistics","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paJQs-56","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n1. Yahoo!<\/a>
\n2. Google<\/a>
\n3. Myspace<\/a>
\n4. Youtube<\/a>
\n5. Facebook<\/a>
\n6. MSN<\/a>
\n7. Ebay<\/a>
\n8. Windows Live<\/a>
\n9. Wikipedia<\/a>
\n10. Craigslist<\/a>
\n
\nQuantcast<\/a><\/strong>:
\n1. Yahoo!<\/a>
\n2. Google<\/a>
\n3. AOL<\/a>
\n4. MSN<\/a>
\n5. Myspace<\/a>
\n6. Ebay<\/a>
\n7. Mapquest<\/a>
\n8. Microsoft<\/a>
\n9. Windows Live<\/a>
\n10. Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n
\n1. Google<\/a>
\n2. Yahoo!<\/a>
\n3. Microsoft<\/a>
\n4. MSN<\/a>\/Windows Live<\/a>
\n5. AOL<\/a>
\n6. Fox Interactive Media<\/a> (Myspace<\/a>, Photobucket<\/a>)
\n7. Ebay<\/a>
\n8. Youtube<\/a>
\n9. Wikipedia<\/a>
\n10. Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n
\n1. Yahoo!<\/a> Sites (Geocities<\/a>, Mybloglog<\/a>, Flickr<\/a>)
\n2. Google<\/a> Sites (Youtube<\/a>, Blogger<\/a>)
\n3. Time Warner Network<\/a> (CNN<\/a>, AOL<\/a>, Mapquest<\/a>)
\n4. Microsoft<\/a> Sites (MSN<\/a>, Live<\/a>)
\n5. Fox Interactive Media<\/a> (Myspace<\/a>, Photobucket<\/a>)
\n6. Ebay<\/a>
\n7. Amazon<\/a>
\n8. Ask<\/a>
\n9. Wikipedia<\/a>
\n10. Viacom Digital<\/a> (MTV<\/a>, CBS<\/a>, Nickelodeon<\/a>)<\/p>\n