Thursday, November 8, 2012

The top 10 sites on the web for 2012




1 Googel The site has been online for at least fifteen years. About 30% of visitors to this site come from the US, where it has attained a traffic rank of 1, and roughly 20% of visits to Google consist of only one pageview (i.e., are bounces). The time spent in a typical visit to the site is about fourteen minutes, with 29 seconds spent on each pageview. 






2 Facebook has been online since 1997, and the time spent in a typical visit to Facebook is roughly 26 minutes, with 43 seconds spent on each pageview. Relative to the overall population of internet users, this site's audience tends to be users who browse from school and home; they are also disproportionately women aged under 25 and 35–45.






Youtube Roughly 20% of visitors to the site come from the US. It has a bounce rate of about 31% (i.e., 31% of visits consist of only one page view , and YouTube has been online since 2005. The site belongs to the “Video Sharing” category.










4 Yahoo roughly 31% of visits to the site consist of only one pageview (i.e., are bounces). While we estimate that 33% of visitors to the site come from the US, where it is ranked #4, it is also popular in Taiwan, where it is ranked #1. Compared with internet averages, the site's audience tends to be aged 45–55 and over 65; they are also disproportionately moderately educated women browsing from school and home who have incomes between $30,000 and $60,000. The fraction of visits to Yahoo.com referred by search engines is approximately 7%.






Baidu.com is ranked #5 in the world , The time spent in a typical visit to the site is approximately eleven minutes, with 33 seconds spent on each page view. Compared with internet averages, the site appeals more to Asians; its visitors also tend to consist of childless women browsing from work and school who have incomes between $30,000 and $100,000. The site is in the “搜索引擎” category of websites. Baidu.com has been online for more than thirteen years.



 6 Wikipedia The fraction of visits to the site referred by search engines is about 48%. The site belongs to the “Wikipedia” category. Compared with internet averages, Wikipedia's audience tends to be users who browse from school and work; it also appeals more to childless men under the age of 35 who have postgraduate educations. The site has been online for at least eleven years.

WindowsLive Visitors to this site view an average of 7.3 unique pages per day. About 4% of visits to this site are referred by search engines, and Live.com is located in the US. While approximately 17% of visitors to the site come from the US, where it is ranked #10, it is also popular in Mexico, where it is ranked #5.8 Twitter The site has been online for more than twelve years. It has a bounce rate of roughly 30% (i.e., 30% of visits consist of only one pageview). Twitter's visitors view an average of 6.5 unique pages per day. Visitors to the site spend roughly nine minutes per visit to the site and 41 seconds per pageview. QQ.COM China's largest and most used Internet service portal owned by Tencent, Inc founded in November, 1998. Approximately 27% of visits to this site are bounces (one pageview only). It is based in China. The site has attained a traffic rank of 2 among users in China, where we estimate that 85% of its audience is located. Qq.com has been online for at least seventeen years.10 Amazon is based in the US. Relative to the overall population of internet users, the site's users are disproportionately Caucasian, and they are disproportionately moderately educated, childless women earning over $60,000 who browse from home. Visitors to this site spend approximately 38 seconds on each pageview and a total of ten minutes on the site during each visit. Amazon.com has a bounce rate of approximately 28% (i.e., 28% of visits consist of only one pageview).

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