Google Unique Visitors

[John Scott]

So, I was wondering, how much traffic do some of the top sites get? Like Yahoo, MSN and Google.

January 2004, Google.com got 59,327,000 unique visitors.

59 million. Wow.

Ask.com got 12,792,000 unique visitors.

These are not search stats. Google powers a lot of search sites not included in here. This is just traffic. Raw traffic to those domains.

Now, remember, Google is not the top trafficked site on the Internet. Yahoo is.

111 million unique visitors to Yahoo in December 2003.

As these things go, stats differ depending on the source. According to comScore Media Metrix:


Yahoo! Sites 113,190,000
Time Warner Network 111,750,000
MSN-Microsoft sites 110,121,000
Google Sites 65,996,000
eBay 60,106,000


Amazon sites 39,083,000
Terra Lycos 38,390,000
About/Primedia 38,263,000
Excite Network 29,047,000
Viacom Online 28,020,000
Verizon Communications Corporation 24,135,000
CNET Networks 24,041,000
Weather Channel, The 23,907,000
Walt Disney Internet Group (WDIG) 23,542,000
Real.com Network 22,713,000
Symantec 21,422,000
Monster 20,107,000
Shopping.com sites 19,643,000
Expedia Travel 17,696,000
SBC Communications 17,366,000
Gorilla Nation Media 17,255,000
Ask Jeeves 17,247,000


Harvard.edu 2,437,000
MIT.edu 2,394,000

[sem4u]

Some big figures there John!

Even though Ask's figures seem big, I am sure people spend more time (and therefore do more searches) on Google.

Also, Yahoo is not only about search. There is mail, games, etc.

[John Scott]

The thing that surprises me is, I expected Google to have more traffic. I would have guessed in the hundreds of millions...

[awall19]

i find it absurd that about.com gets over 50% of the unique visitors as google!

[John Scott]

CNN 20,458,000

[John Scott]

Damn, there sure are a lot of people interested in the weather.

[John Scott]

Here are some older stats, from 2000:

http://retailindustry.about.com/libr.../n_pcd0111.htm

[John Scott]

Google News 5,238,000

[crazyhorse]

lol and mine is doing squad at the moment

[John Scott]

Yahoo! Sites - 113,190,000 - Alexa Rank #1
Time Warner Network 111,750,000 - Alexa Rank (for AOL) #50
MSN-Microsoft sites 110,121,000 - Alexa Rank #2
Google Sites 65,996,000 - Alexa Rank #4
eBay 60,106,000 - Alexa Rank #16


Amazon sites 39,083,000 - Alexa Rank #22
Terra Lycos 38,390,000 - Alexa Rank #86
About/Primedia 38,263,000 - Alexa Rank #161
Excite Network 29,047,000 - Alexa Rank #225
Viacom Online 28,020,000 - Alexa Rank #51,000
Verizon Communications Corporation 24,135,000 - Alexa Rank #1,318
CNET Networks 24,041,000 - Alexa Rank #357
Weather Channel, The 23,907,000 - Alexa Rank #118
Walt Disney Internet Group (WDIG) 23,542,000 - Alexa Rank #28
Real.com Network 22,713,000 - Alexa Rank #153
Symantec 21,422,000 - Alexa Rank #157
Monster 20,107,000 - Alexa Rank #152
Shopping.com sites 19,643,000 - Alexa Rank #721
Expedia Travel 17,696,000 - Alexa Rank #234
SBC Communications 17,366,000 - Alexa Rank #2,529
Gorilla Nation Media 17,255,000 - Alexa Rank #5,153
Ask Jeeves 17,247,000 - Alexa Rank #175

CNN 20,458,000 - Alexa Rank #34


Harvard.edu 2,437,000 - Alexa Rank #1,639
MIT.edu 2,394,000 - Alexa Rank #1,632

[cray]

MSN is bound to be high as its IE default Homepage on many PC's, Would have thought Google would be higher but it is still an impressive amount of uniques.

[I, Brian]

The big point, though, is that Google is pretty much a single service. So you know 60 million people visited Google - just to search.

Got a Hotmail account I use regularly, but I almost never use MSN search.

[awall19]

Originally Posted by I, Brian

Got a Hotmail account I use regularly

that is a bad deal my friend

hotmail sucks
hotmail suxs
hotmail sukkx
etc

[John Scott]

Those Alexa rankings seem to be pretty accurate if you compare Alexa to actual traffic.

[awall19]

Originally Posted by JohnScott

Those Alexa rankings seem to be pretty accurate if you compare Alexa to actual traffic.

not that hard to do for sites where there is a difference by millions of visitors.

much harder to tell site 10,003 from 34,382

[MadHatter]

I think they are only accurate for the top 250 or so

[thebassman]

Wow... those are some damn big numbers...

[hurricane_sh]

Very interesting data, Thanks John! I was wondering how the source got the data, it should be a business secret.

[I, Brian]

Point simply being that Google's traffic is pretty much single purpose - to search - whereas the others offer a multitude of services, and that's what their figures demonstrate.

[gabrielroj]

The full top 10, in millions of visitors:
1 Microsoft 501.7
2 Google 475.5
3 Yahoo 475.2
4 eBay 250.8
5 Time Warner 222.1
6 Wikipedia 171.9
7 Amazon 143.9
8 Fox Interactive 130.4
9 Ask Network 110.9
10 YouTube 107.9