Saturday, December 31, 2011

Most Visited Sites in 2011

Nielsen analysis convention appear a website abode which is consistently the ambition of Internet users during the aftermost year. As a result, Google, Facebook, and YouTube is a armpit frequented by Internet users.

As quoted from CNet, Nielsen analysis to assort the after-effects into three parts, the Top 10 U.S. Web Brands in 2011, Top 10 U.S. Social Networks & Blogs in 2011, and Top 10 U.S. Online Video Destinations for. The analysis was conducted alone in the United States. For Indonesia, based on abstracts from Alexa.com, the top bristles sites visited best generally not abundant altered in the U.S..

Nielsen to admeasurement the after-effects of the analysis based on the cardinal of different visitors (unique visitors) per ages who appointment anniversary armpit surveyed. On average, the aiguille position in the analysis after-effects is a behemothic Internet aggregation that had continued been on the internet.

10 U.S. Web Brands in 2011 (in millions of visitors per month):
1. Google (153.441)
2. Facebook (137.644)
3. Yahoo! (130.121)
4. MSN / WindowsLive / Bing (115.89)
5. Youtube (106.692)
6. Microsoft (83.691)
7. AOL Media Networks (74.633)
8. Wikipedia (62.097)
9. Apple (61.608)
10. Ask Search Network (60.552)

Top 10 U.S. Social Networks & Blogs in 2011 (in millions of visitors per month):
1. Facebook (137.644)
2. Blogger (45.712)
3. Twitter (23.574)
4. Wordpress.com (20.357)
5. MySpace.com (17.935)
6. LinkedIn (17.020)
7. Tumblr (10.879)
8. Google + (8.207)
9. Yahoo! Pulse (8.063)
10. Six Apart Typepad (7.793)

Top 10 U.S. Online Video Destinations for (in million visitors per month):
1. Youtube (111.152)
2. Vevo (34.58)
3. Facebook (29.802)
4. Yahoo! (25.324)
5. MSN / WindowsLive / Bing (16.563)
6. AOL Media Networks (13.327)
7. Upstream (13.159)
8. The CollegeHumor Network (12.496)
9. CNN Digital Network (8.262)
10. Netflix (7.418)

Nielsen also ranks smart phone based on its market share in the United States. Here are the Top 5 Smartphone Vendors (in percent):
1. Apple (29)
2. HTC (21)
3. RIM Blackberry (17)
4. Samsung (11)
5. Motorola (11)

Source: CNET