Comscore Releases Top French Web Rankings For January
Career and Travel Sites Experience Gains to Begin the New Year
Start of Winter Sale Doubles Traffic to Kiabi
PARIS, FRANCE, February 28, 2008 – Comscore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its January rankings of the largest and fastest-growing Internet properties and site categories in France based on data from the Comscore World Metrix audience measurement service. The month was especially buoyant for career and travel sites as Internet users in France planned for the year ahead. Google Sites continued to lead asFrance’s largest property ahead of Microsoft Sites, while Kiabi, the fastest-growing property during the month, grew 101 percent to 2.3 million visitors.
Top Gaining Site Categories for January 2008
Top 10 Gaining Site Categories by Number of French Unique Visitors | |||
Total Unique Visitors (000) | |||
Dec-2007 | Jan-2008 | % Change | |
Total Internet : Total Audience | 28,729 | 29,232 | 2% |
Training and Education | 1,721 | 2,397 | 39% |
Career Resources | 1,591 | 2,204 | 39% |
Job Search | 2,492 | 3,301 | 32% |
Manufacturer | 2,950 | 3,717 | 26% |
Hotels/Resorts | 3,192 | 3,865 | 21% |
Career Services and Development | 6,753 | 8,108 | 20% |
Sports/Outdoor | 3,504 | 4,192 | 20% |
Information | 2,867 | 3,400 | 19% |
Online Travel Agents | 5,867 | 6,884 | 17% |
Resources | 6,936 | 7,960 | 15% |
* Excludes traffic from public computers such as Internet cafes or access from mobile phones or PDAs.
Top Gaining Properties for January 2008
Top 10 Gaining Properties by Number ofFrench Unique Visitors* | |||
Property | Total Unique Visitors (000) | ||
Dec-2007 | Jan-2008 | % Change | |
Total Internet : Total Audience | 28,729 | 29,232 | 2% |
Kiabi | 1,132 | 2,276 | 101% |
Softissimo | 1,263 | 1,820 | 44% |
Travelport | 1,377 | 1,926 | 40% |
ANPE Sites | 2,024 | 2,736 | 35% |
Expedia Inc | 1,357 | 1,824 | 34% |
CNAF | 1,491 | 1,916 | 29% |
Virgin Group | 1,474 | 1,893 | 28% |
Arcandor AG | 2,512 | 3,175 | 26% |
WEB66 Sites | 1,869 | 2,354 | 26% |
Groupe LDLC.com | 3,169 | 3,903 | 23% |
*Ranking based on the top 100 French properties in January 2008.
** Excludes traffic from public computers such as Internet cafes or access from mobile phones or PDAs.
Top 25 Properties for January 2008
Top 25 Properties by Number of French Unique Visitors* | |||
Jan-08 Rank | Dec-07 Rank | Property | Total Unique Visitors (000) Jan-08 |
N/A | N/A | Total Internet : Total Audience | 29,231 |
1 | 1 | Google Sites | 20,814 |
2 | 2 | Microsoft Sites | 19,072 |
3 | 3 | Orange Sites | 15,331 |
4 | 4 | Iliad/Free.fr Sites | 13,057 |
5 | 5 | eBay | 12,103 |
6 | 8 | Groupe Pages Jaunes | 12,005 |
7 | 7 | Yahoo! Sites | 11,836 |
8 | 6 | Groupe PPR | 11,614 |
9 | 9 | Skyrock Network | 10,724 |
10 | 10 | Wikipedia Sites | 10,701 |
11 | 11 | DailyMotion.com | 9,401 |
12 | 16 | Benchmark Group | 9,052 |
13 | 13 | Groupe PriceMinister | 8,566 |
14 | 12 | NextRadio TV | 8,388 |
15 | N/A | AOL LLC | 8,106 |
16 | 14 | Lycos Europe Sites | 8,082 |
17 | 17 | Groupe Doctissimo | 7,994 |
18 | 18 | Groupe Lagardere | 7,740 |
19 | 19 | Bestofmedia Group | 7,037 |
20 | 23 | Commencamarche.net | 6,813 |
21 | 21 | Groupe TF1 | 6,791 |
22 | 22 | auFeminin.com Network | 6,545 |
23 | 27 | AlloCine Sites | 6,245 |
24 | 25 | Cyrealis | 6,210 |
25 | 26 | Otto Gruppe | 6,113 |
*Ranking based on the top 100French properties in January 2008.
** Excludes traffic from public computers such as Internet cafes or access from mobile phones or PDAs.
*** Beginning with January 2008 Comscore data, Time Warner Network has now been divided into AOL LLC, which includes all AOL related entities, and Time Warner – Excluding AOL
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