Weekly Internet Ratings From Nielsen//NetRatings
Data for Monday, September 27 through Sunday, October 3, 1999; Visitors to AOL Websites Jump 10.8%
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 7, 1999--The following Internet audience and advertising information is from Nielsen//NetRatings, the Internet measurement service from Nielsen Media Research (NYSE: NMR) and NetRatings, Inc. The information includes: Top 25 Web Properties, Top 10 Internet Advertisers, Top 10 Ad Banners and Average Internet Usage statistics for the week ending October 3, 1999.
Nielsen//NetRatings: Top 25 Web Sites by Property
September 27-October 3, 1999
Ranking of the Most Visited Web Properties
Property (Ticker Symbol) Unique Audience (000) Time Per Person
(hrs:min:sec)
1. AOL Websites (NYSE: AOL) 20,159 0:10:44
2. Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) 17,875 0:26:31
3. MSN (NASDAQ: MSFT) 11,573 0:19:15
4. Lycos Network (NASDAQ: LCOS) 9,022 0:07:52
5. GO Network (NASDAQ: SEEK) 6,677 0:14:29
6. Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) 5,201 0:06:49
7. Excite@Home (NASDAQ: ATHM) 4,881 0:15:24
8. Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) 3,861 0:09:11
9. AltaVista (NASDAQ: CMGI) 3,481 0:05:45
10. eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) 3,345 0:53:42
11. Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) 2,921 0:08:08
12. Blue Mt. Arts 2,600 0:10:37
13. CNET (NASDAQ: CNET) 2,124 0:06:40
14. Snap 2,119 0:08:11
15. LookSmart (NASDAQ: LOOK) 2,065 0:03:49
16. Go2net Network (NASDAQ: GNET) 2,029 0:07:44
17. ZDNet (NYSE: ZD) 1,856 0:09:36
18. Xoom (NASDAQ: XMCM) 1,814 0:05:55
19. Real Networks (NASDAQ: RNWK) 1,750 0:03:53
20. AT&T (NYSE: T) 1,582 0:09:24
21. About.com (NASDAQ: BOUT) 1,543 0:05:09
22. CBS Sportsline (NASDAQ: SPLN) 1,450 0:12:13
23. CNN (NYSE: TWX) 1,417 0:12:40
24. GoTo.com (NASDAQ: GOTO) 1,409 0:02:29
25. InfoSpace (NASDAQ: INSP) 1,330 0:05:09
Example: The data indicate that approximately 1.3 million home Internet users visited at least one of the InfoSpace-owned sites during the week, and each person spent, on average, a total of five minutes and nine seconds at one or more of their sites.
Notes: Rankings are based on audience measurement of people who have access to the Internet from home. A property is defined as a consolidation of multiple domains and URLs owned by a single entity. Reach is a measure of the unduplicated audience that visits a property. The data are expressed as the percent of the total universe of Internet users who logged onto the Internet at least once during the reporting period.
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