Where the Online Traffic is Going

vitaly.friedman writes "While growth is slowing at most top Internet sites, it is skyrocketing at sites focused on social networking, blogging and local information. The dramatic success of those Internet categories is apparent from a recent online-traffic analysis provided by market research firm ComScore Media Metrix, which examined visitor growth rates among the 50 top Web sites over the past year."

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Basic trends

[liliafan]

There is a reason for this, google is a superior searchengine, putting aside the regular flamewars on 'evil or not' they offer a better service than their competitors, this is why they are continuing to grow, additionally basically everywhere you look you see something related to google these days, even the whole china upcry, all publicity is good publicity.

The reason for growth with the other sites is because of basic marketing treads they are cool, they are new, myspace has grown because they offered a unique service that people picked up on, blogging is also a major area of growth the fact that blogger.com is tied to google is a likely reason why they are going better than a lot of their competitors, as for wikipedia, it is a one stop shop for all your information needs that and it has a great google ranking it is an unsual day for me to perform a search on something contained in wikipedia and not have that entry returned on the first page.

Re:If people only realized...

[meringuoid]

I don't think these sites would do as well if people realized the exposure and danger they risk by volunteering so much personal information on the internet.

Quite a point. Google sees everything you do online, and a cunning questioner can get more information about you than you might think.

Some script kiddie got into a webforum I rather liked a few months ago. Obsolete version of Invision with more holes than a Sierpinski gasket. He Defaced it, deleted stuff, the usual crap. Gloated about his leetness under his leet hacker's handle.

Which led to other places he'd posted.

Which led to other names he'd used.

Which led to a website.

Which had a whois record.

Which had a phone number.

Which was answered by his mother.

We got a photo of him from his eighth-grade spelling bee, too. Cute kid :-)