A Wired article on hackers ( http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,34203,00.html ) referred to Yahoo as “Internet’s second most popular destination.” Does this mean someone keeps track on, say, the top 10 popular web sites? And what’s number 1?
Number one is apparently not this.
Probably Microsoft, obviously.
AOL.
“Drink your coffee! Remember, there are people sleeping in China.”
AOL is reportedly the top site. But one must remember that since AOL is the largest internet provider (even thought it’s a content provider more than an ISP) the numbers become a little off.
Yes, the company is Media Metrix (www.mediametrix.com). They track all kinds of things besides web sites.
They base their rankings on the number of unique visitors to a web site per day/week/month/whatever. Their current top 10 sites (for the month of December) are:
[list=1][li]AOL Network - Proprietary & WWW - 53,788,000 visitors[/li][li]Yahoo Sites - 42,361,000[/li][li]Microsoft Sites - 40,488,000[/li][li]Lycos - 30,348,000[/li][li]Excite@Home - 27,670,000[/li][li]Go Network - 21,348,000[/li][li]Amazon - 16,631,000[/li][li]NBC Internet - 14,928,000[/li][li]About.com Sites - 12,612,000[/li][li]Time Warner Online - 12,235,000[/list=1][/li]
Their entire list of the top 50 sites is at http://www.mediametrix.com/PressRoom/Press_Releases/01_20_00.html . They have the data split up about a dozen ways (at home vs. at work, US vs. non-US, etc.)
I don’t see us on their list… Oh well, I assume we’re sitting at number 51, just off the bottom of their list.
“Drink your coffee! Remember, there are people sleeping in China.”
That list says ‘Sites.’ Not ‘site.’
aol.com gets more traffic than microsoft.com?
Strange, Cuz I only went to aol.com once 
I think Yahoo is the most popular now, getting 10,000,000,000,000 hits since the beginning of the week. 
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It’s a little misleading since I think they count EVERYTHING under the aol.com domain. That includes all AOL member sites. So if you’re going to yahoo, you’re just going there to use their search engine, email service, etc. If you’re going to aol, it could be any one of a million pages from a million different members. Kind of a shitty way to add things up, IMHO.
In the manned space program’s early days, NASA spent $1 million
to develop a pen that wrote upside down. The Russians used a pencil.
Yes, it is all sites belonging to Yahoo or whoever. If you followed the link I gave, they also have a list broken down by individual .coms (or .whatevers).
[list=1][li]Yahoo.com - 36,400,000 hits[/li][li]Msn.com - 32,748,000[/li][li]Aol.com - 29,345,000[/li][li]Microsoft.com - 25,451,000[/li][li]Netscape.com - 21,708,000[/li][li]Geocities.com - 21,504,000[/li][li]Go.com - 18,853,000[/li][li]Bluemountainarts.com - 18,046,000[/li][li]Lycos.com - 17,902,000[/li][li]Passport.com - 15,973,000[/list=1][/li]
Keep in mind they are tracking web sites, not web pages. So, there may be thousands of pages under members.aol.com, but they are all part of the aol.com site.
“Drink your coffee! Remember, there are people sleeping in China.”
AWB, eTrade got more than that yesterday 
Probably some high school kid went around updating computers for Y2K & added a little something extra.
Yahoo.com - 36,400,000 hits
Msn.com - 32,748,000
Aol.com - 29,345,000
Microsoft.com - 25,451,000
Microsoft + MSN= Microsoft =#1