Post tagged "Yahoo"
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.
Facebook Soon to Pass Yahoo as #3 Largest Web Site WorldWide
Facebook is well on its way to taking Yahoo’s spot as the third largest Web property in the world. (Google and Microsoft are No. 1 and No. 2, respectively). Last summer Facebook took the No. 4 spot globally, displacing AOL, but according to comScore there was still an estimated 241 million unique visitors a month separating it from the No. 3 site, Yahoo. In December, 2009, that gap narrowed to 125 million unique visitors globally.
