Comscore Releases Top French Web Rankings for February
Valentine’s Day Drives Traffic to Flowers, Gifts & Greetings Sites
New Firefox Browser Helps Mozilla Organisation Grow to More than 4 Million Visitors
PARIS,FRANCE, April 2, 2008 – Comscore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its February 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.
Online visitation figures traditionally dip slightly in February, since the shortness of the month means that there are fewer days on which visits can be recorded. Nonetheless, Valentine’s Day helped drive traffic to the flowers/gifts/and greetings category, which grew by 20 percent from January to 3.4 million visitors in February. Gains were also experienced in the hotels & resorts, real estate and career resources categories.
Uptake of its new Firefox Internet browser saw traffic to the Mozilla Organisation increase 79 percent to 4.5 million visitors, while the Euro Million Lottery draw caused traffic to Francaise des Jeux to grow 35 percent to 2.2 million visitors.
Top Gaining Site Categories for February 2008
Top 10 Gaining Site Categories by Number of French Unique Visitors | |||
Site Category | Total Unique Visitors (000) | ||
Jan-08 | Feb-08 | % Change | |
Total Internet : Total Audience | 29,232 | 29,419 | 1% |
Flowers/Gifts/Greetings | 2,857 | 3,441 | 20% |
Hotels/Resorts | 3,865 | 4,464 | 15% |
Real Estate | 4,488 | 4,806 | 7% |
Career Resources | 2,204 | 2,336 | 6% |
Online Gaming | 9,135 | 9,574 | 5% |
Automotive - Resources | 7,960 | 8,292 | 4% |
Online Gambling | 6,874 | 7,141 | 4% |
Government | 9,495 | 9,857 | 4% |
Travel - Information | 11,057 | 11,475 | 4% |
Kids | 3,771 | 3,912 | 4% |
* Excludes traffic from public computers such as Internet cafes or access from mobile phones or PDAs.
Top Gaining Properties for February 2008
Top 10 Gaining Properties by Number ofFrench Unique Visitors* | |||
Property | Total Unique Visitors (000) | ||
Jan-08 | Feb-08 | % Change | |
Total Internet : Total Audience | 29,232 | 29,419 | 1% |
The Mozilla Organization | 2,489 | 4,459 | 79% |
Francaise des Jeux | 1,634 | 2,200 | 35% |
BNP Paribas | 2,847 | 3,602 | 27% |
Lastminute.com Sites | 1,697 | 2,107 | 24% |
UNBLOG.FR | 1,789 | 2,024 | 13% |
JFG Networks | 5,022 | 5,676 | 13% |
Fotovista Group | 3,401 | 3,775 | 11% |
Expedia Inc | 1,824 | 1,974 | 8% |
Groupe Amaury | 3,051 | 3,301 | 8% |
Ask Network | 1,876 | 2,021 | 8% |
*Ranking based on the top 100 French properties in February 2008.
** Excludes traffic from public computers such as Internet cafes or access from mobile phones or PDAs.
Top 25 Properties for February 2008
Top 25 Properties by Number of French Unique Visitors* | |||
Feb-08 Rank | Jan-08 Rank | Property | Total Unique Visitors (000) Feb-08 |
N/A | N/A | Total Internet : Total Audience | 29,419 |
1 | 1 | Google Sites | 21,483 |
2 | 2 | Microsoft Sites | 19,193 |
3 | 3 | Orange Sites | 15,026 |
4 | 4 | Iliad/Free.fr Sites | 12,873 |
5 | 5 | eBay | 11,748 |
6 | 6 | Groupe Pages Jaunes | 11,637 |
7 | 7 | Yahoo! Sites | 11,633 |
8 | 9 | Skyrock Network | 10,986 |
9 | 8 | Groupe PPR | 10,546 |
10 | 10 | Wikipedia Sites | 10,152 |
11 | 11 | DAILYMOTION.COM | 9,418 |
12 | 13 | Groupe PriceMinister | 8,446 |
13 | 15 | AOL LLC | 8,204 |
14 | 14 | NextRadio TV | 8,061 |
15 | 12 | Benchmark Group | 7,880 |
16 | 18 | Groupe Lagardere | 7,725 |
17 | 17 | Groupe Doctissimo | 7,695 |
18 | 16 | Lycos Europe Sites | 7,544 |
19 | 20 | COMMENTCAMARCHE.NET | 6,806 |
20 | 21 | Groupe TF1 | 6,788 |
21 | 19 | Bestofmedia Group | 6,705 |
22 | 22 | auFeminin.com Network | 6,336 |
23 | 23 | AlloCine Sites | 6,099 |
24 | 25 | Groupe Spir Communication | 6,089 |
25 | 24 | Groupe Hi-Media | 5,964 |
*Ranking based on the top 100French properties in February 2008.
** Excludes traffic from public computers such as Internet cafes or access from mobile phones or PDAs.
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