Yahoo Tops Portal Market In Visitors

linumax writes "Yahoo Inc. continues to lead the portal market in the number of unique visitors, and is also the top destination for news, a market research firm says. The Sunnyvale, Calif., company led the top 10 Web sites among U.S. home and work Internet users with 101.3 million visitors in August, EMarketer Inc., said. Second was Microsoft Corp.'s site with 95.6 million, followed by its MSN portal, 92.1 million; Google, 80.4 million; America Online Inc., 75.7 million; EBay Inc., 55.2 million; MapQuest, 39 million; Amazon.com, 37.6 million, RealNetworks, 36.4 million; and the Weather Channel, 31.2 million."

Comments

Portals?

[quokkapox]

The fastest way to get to your favorite sites is to bookmark their search form query boxes in firefox using a keyword. I can bring up slashdot or a google image search or an imdb page or a wikipedia article in new tabs, while blindfolded, with a couple of keystrokes, instead of wasting time clicking pretty widgets. You can even tell if the text you were looking for is on the resulting page by the sounds emitted by find-as-you-type.

Re:where traffic comes from:

[jerw134]

webmasters, check your web stats - its 85% Google referrals

Yeah, just believe this guy who pulls numbers out of his ass. Here are some real stats for this month from a fairly popular website, which targets the 18-34 demographic:

Yahoo: 43.08%
Google: 28.82%
MSN: 21.04%