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Facebook Passes Google As Most-Visited Website in US in Week Ending Mar 13, 2010
Hitwise reports that, for the week ending March 13, 2010, Facebook passed Google to become the most visited website for the week in the U.S. Facebook.com had previously reached the #1 ranking on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and New Year’s Day, as well as the weekend of March 6th and 7th, but this is the first time that the site held most-visited status for a week.
The share of visits to Facebook.com increased 185% as compared to the same week in 2009, while visits to Google.com increased 9% during the same time frame. …more…
Facebook Drives 350x More Traffic to News/Media Sites than Google Reader
According to a ReadWriteWeb analysis of Hitwise numbers, Facebook drives 350 times as much traffic to other websites in the “news and media” category (3.5%) as Google Reader does (.01%).
However, Facebook, Google News (1.4%). and Google Reader togetheraccount for less than 5% of news sites’ total traffic. The #1, 2 and 3 drivers of traffic to news sites? Google, Yahoo and MSN.
US visits to social networking sites have increased 62% year over year
U.S. visits to social networking sites have increased 62 percent year over year;
visits from 55 and older age group have increased 77 percent
New York, N.Y., Oct. 9, 2009 – Experian® Hitwise® …more…
Social media reaches all-time high; Facebook is tops
During the first week of September, Facebook captured nearly 58% of visits in the social networking custom category, according to new data from research firm Hitwise. MySpace — which was the …more…
