Wikipedia, YouTube driven by heavy traffic

The comScore numbers for top global web properties saw Wikipedia and YouTube pick up 12 percent gains in their unique visitors age 15 and up from around the world.

Microsoft sites still lead the pack, with 505 million visitors arriving in September 2006 according to the comScore numbers. If you are wondering what makes Microsoft so heavily visited, a combination of Automatic Updates and Windows Genuine Advantage checks probably have more to do with that traffic than the MSN Butterfly does.

Yahoo sites edged out Google properties in September, but not by a wide margin. 480 million visitors hit Yahoo’s various properties in the midst of that company’s marketing blitz.

Google picked up 467 million visitors to its sites for the month.

Traffic drops into the 200 millions for the next two Internet players. EBay drew 237 million unique visitors to its online marketplace.

Time Warner Network, which includes AOL, grabbed 217 million, which should be of some help to AOL’s dreams of a richly profitable ad-supported/audience driven future.

Courtesy - David A. Utter | Staff Writer WebPro

2 Comments »

  1. Amir said,

    November 24, 2006 @ 1:31 am

    Hey guys,
    I have an iMac G5 running tiger 10.4.7 and I an having a wierd problem. Whenever I go to a site that has an embedded youtube, flash or some kind of video, there is no sound. If it a quicktime file there is no problem. There is not sound no matter what broswer I use, firefox, camino, safari, or shiira. And keep in mind that about a week ago I was not having this issue.

    Help Would be awesome
    Thanks!

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