Internet Usage Grows Significantly Over Past Year

September 24th, 2008 jack Media Metrix reported Tuesday Internet usage climbed dramatically over the past year, as the total number of Web site visitors, pages viewed and number of hours spent online all increased.

The number of individuals who used the Internet at home and the office grew to 61.9 million at the end of May compared to 53.9 million at the end of May 1998. The firm said the number of pages viewed also increased to 37.4 pages a day, up from 30.2 pages a year ago.

Unique pages per visitor also grew to 455 a month from 308 in 1998 and total number of Web pages viewed increased 70 percent to more than 28 billion in May compared to a year ago.

Internet users logged on at least once on 12.2 days in May compared to 10.2 days a year earlier. Individuals logged an average of 7.6 hours a month in May, up from 5.3 hours in 1998.

Below are more results from the report: Top 50 Digital Media Web Sites and Properties of May 1999

Here are the Top 50 Digital Media Web sites and properties for the month of April 1999 ranked by unique audience according to Media Metrix. These rankings include home and work access.

Top 50 Sites and Properties of April 1999.

Rank	Digital Media/Web Property	Unique Visitors
1	AOL Network	46,243
2	Microsoft Sites	32,389
3	Yahoo Sites	31,299
4	Lycos	29,963
5	Go Network	20,864
6	GeoCities	19,965
7	The Excite Network	17,192
8	Time Warner Online	13,106
9	Amazon	10,831
10	Alta Vista	10,633
11	Blue Mountain Arts	10,089
12	RealSite Portfolio	9,114
13	Xoom.com Sites	8,958
14	Snap Sites	8,872
15	Go2Net Network	8,484
16	eBay	8,262
17	CNET	8,202
18	Broadcast.Com	7,879
19	ZDNet	7,770
20	Juno	7,292
21	LookSmart	7,127
22	Infospace Impressions	6,824
23	AT&T Web Sites	6,301
24	Viacom Online	5,827
25	About.com Sites	5,337
26	The Weather Channel	5,153
27	Goto.com	4,945
28	MindSpring	4,598
29	Fortunecity Community	4,575
30	Sony Online	4,411
31	Barnesandnoble.com	4,330
32	EarthLink	4,299
33	Women.com Networks	4,246
34	iVillage	3,822
35	Travelocity.com	3,813
36	Macromedia	3,749
37	CDNow	3,742
38	Preview Travel	3,729
39	Porncity.net	3,600
40	Mypoints.com	3,491
41	News Corp.	3,444
42	Theglobe.com	3,412
43	The Learning Co. Sites	3,403
44	Theglobe.com	3,204
45	CitySearch-Ticketmaster Online	3,393
46	Mapquest.com	3,268
47	Apple.com	3,230
48	Valupage.com	3,224
49	IDG.net	3,106
50	Karasxxx.com	3,007

Rank	Digital Media/Web Site	Unique Visitors
1	yahoo.com	31,118
2	aol.com	28,947
3	msn.com	22,209
4	geocities.com	19,514
5	go.com	18,935
6	netscape.com	18,537
7	microsoft.com	16,031
8	excite.com	15,167
9	lycos.com	14,891
10	angelfire.com	12,601
11	hotmail.com	12,337
12	tripod.com	11,526
13	bluemountainarts.com	10,089
14	amazon.com	9,933
15	altavista search	9,491
16	snap.com	8,872
17	xoom.com	8,548
18	real.com	8,519
19	ebay.com	8,227
20	hotbot.com	7,100
21	infospace.com	6,775
22	zdnet.com	6,630
23	icq.com	5,852
24	looksmart.com	5,582
25	msnbc.com	5,531
26	pathfinder.com	5,463
27	about.com	5,337
28	weather.com	5,153
29	simplenet.com	5,127
30	goto.com	4,945
31	cnn.com	4,771
32	CNET Downloads	4,709
33	fortunecity.com	4,575
34	sidewalk.com	4,496
35	Sony Online	4,411
36	barnesandnoble.com	4,330
37	Earthlink.net	4,299
38	barnesandnoble.com	3,954
39	Warner Bros. Online	3,911
40	Digitalcity.com	3,896
41	hypermart.net	3,847
42	ivillage	3,822
43	travelocity.com	3,813
44	Preview Travel	3,729
45	att.net	3,671
46	porncity.net	3,600
47	mypoints.com	3,491
48	go2net.com	3,424
49	Broadcast.com	3,414
50	CNET	3,386

Definitions: A web property is one that offers more than one site. Unique visitors is the number of total users who visited the site in the past month. All unique visitors are counted once and are in thousands. Each reach point represents approximately 620,000 unique visitors, but the actual number varies each month.

Date: June 22, 1999

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