According to the latest report from Media Metrix, America Online lead the list of most popular Web properties in June.
Not surprisingly, portals led the list of top sites last month. In addition to AOL, others leading the list included Yahoo!, Microsoft, Excite and Lycos.
About.com won kudos as the fastest rising Web property with a 35 percent increase in traffic, propelling the network to the top 20. About.com, formerly Miningco.com, took its new name on May 17.
The rankings include home and work access. Here’s a snippet of the Top 50 properties and sites in June:
Rank | Digital Media/Web Property | Unique Visitors (000) |
|---|---|---|
1 | AOL Network | 47,197 |
2 | Yahoo Sites | 37,093 |
3 | Microsoft Sites | 32,883 |
4 | Lycos | 29,963 |
5 | Go Network | 20,793 |
6 |
Excite Network | 17,122 |
7 | Time Warner Online | 12,337 |
8 | Amazon | 12,172 |
9 | Go2Net Network | 10,168 |
10 | AltaVista | 9,904 |
Rank | Digital Media/Web Site |
Unique Visitors (000) |
|---|---|---|
1 | yahoo.com | 32,853 |
2 | aol.com | 29,889 |
3 | msn.com | 22,852 |
4 | netscape.com | 19,320 |
5 | geocities.com | 19,145 |
6 |
go.com | 19,064 |
7 | microsoft.com | 15,932 |
8 | excite.com | 15,425 |
9 | lycos.com | 14,568 |
10 | angelfire.com | 13,193 |
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.
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