Media Metrix, The PC Meter Company in New York City, said it reports on
nearly 6,000 Web sites in its January Trend Report.
The number of sites that Media Metrix reports has steadily
increased each month and is up by nearly 500 since December. Media Metrix
also unveiled its top 25 World Wide Web site rankings for At Home and At
Work, as well as the top Media Properties for January.
New to the Top 25 Web site rankings for the first time is Sony Online, which
ranks sixteenth among all Web sites At Home. Switchboard.com moves up one
notch to enter the top 10 overall for the first time. The US Treasury
Department (ustreas.gov) appears for the first time ever among the Media
Metrix Top 25 Web sites overall accessed at work.
| Top 25 Web Sites – At Home | Top 25 Web Sites – At Work |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Web Site | % Reach | Rank | Web Site | % Reach |
| 1 | aol.com | 47.7 | 1 | yahoo.com | 50.3 |
| 2 | yahoo.com | 39.6 | 2 | netscape.com | 44.7 |
| 3 | netscape.com | 27.5 | 3 | aol.com | 35.4 |
| 4 | geocities.com | 23.9 | 4 | microsoft.com | 28.2 |
| 5 | microsoft.com | 23.4 | 5 | infoseek.com | 26.8 |
| 6 | infoseek.com | 19.2 | 6 | excite.com | 26.3 |
| 7 | excite.com | 19.0 | 7 | lycos.com | 20.4 |
| 8 | lycos.com | 12.9 | 8 | geocities.com | 19.7 |
| 9 | msn.com | 11.4 | 9 | digital.com | 16.2 |
| 10 | switchboard.com | 11.1 | 10 | zdnet.com | 14.7 |
| 11 | tripod.com | 10.1 | 11 | four11.com | 11.9 |
| 12 | digital.com | 9.7 | 12 | msn.com | 11.9 |
| 13 | zdnet.com | 8.7 | 13 | webcrawler.com | 11.5 |
| 14 | webcrawler.com | 8.5 | 14 | switchboard.com | 9.9 |
| 15 | simplenet.com | 7.9 | 15 | cnn.com | 8.8 |
| 16 | sony online | 7.8 | 16 | amazon.com | 8.7 |
| 17 | angelfire.com | 7.5 | 17 | real.com | 8.2 |
| 18 | four11.com | 7.4 | 18 | compuserve.com | 8.0 |
| 19 | real.com | 7.2 | 19 | tripod.com | 7.4 |
| 20 | amazon.com | 6.8 | 20 | ustreas.gov | 7.4 |
| 21 | disney online | 6.8 | 21 | weather.com | 7.4 |
| 22 | att.net | 6.6 | 22 | cnet software | 7.2 |
| 23 | pathfinder.com | 6.5 | 23 | whowhere.com | 7.2 |
| 24 | hotmail.com | 6.2 | 24 | pathfinder.com | 6.9 |
| 25 | compuserve.com | 6.1 | 25 | usatoday.com | 6.9 |