Comscore Reports Traffic to Leading French Sites in May

National Focus Shifts from Politics to Taxes and Retail

London, UK, June 29, 2007 – Comscore (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today reported the top French Internet properties and the top gaining properties for May, based on data collected through the Comscore World Metrix audience measurement service. The national focus shifted from the French presidential elections to taxes, shopping and the weather as seen in the findings below:

  • Google continued to be the most-visited property in France with 17.8 million visitors in May, reaching 69 percent of all French Web users.
  • Taxes were on the minds of French Web users in May, as government sites Impots.gouv.fr, Finances.gouv.fr, and CNAF all ranked among the top gainers for the month. Impots.gouv.fr grew 310 percent to 4.4 million visitors and represented the top overall gainer, followed by Finances.gouv.fr, which grew 219 percent to 2.5 million French visitors, and CNAF, which grew 79 percent to 2.5 million visitors.
  • Retail sites benefited from shopping for Mother’s Day in France, shown by the 117-percent increase in traffic to Karstadt-Quelle (2.6 million visitors), the 70-percent increase to flower site Florajet.com (1.8 million visitors), and the 47-percent increase to clothing site Kiabi.com (2.1 million visitors). In addition, price-comparison group Ciao Sites grew 40 percent to 3.7 million visitors. Also notable was the 13-percent increase in traffic to Groupe PPR (8.6 million visitors), the fastest-growing property in the top 10 in May, attributable largely to increases in visitation to Laredoute.fr.
  • Finally, French vacationers closely monitored weather forecasts as they planned long weekends over the many bank holidays in May, as evidenced by the 33 percent increase to Meteofrance.com (4.3 million visitors).

Top 10 Online Properties by French Unique Visitors, Age 15+
May 2007 vs. April 2007
Total France – Home and Work Locations*
Source: Comscore World Metrix

Apr.-07 (000)

May-07 (000)

Percentage Change

Total French Internet Audience, Age 15+

25,388

25,719

1%

Google Sites

17,683

17,811

1%

Microsoft Sites

16,254

16,219

0%

France Telecom

13,886

13,864

0%

Iliad/Free.fr Sites

12,322

12,818

4%

eBay

10,644

11,374

7%

Groupe Pages Jaunes

10,668

10,969

3%

Yahoo! Sites

10,577

10,839

2%

Wikipedia Sites

8,515

9,182

8%

Skyrock Network

8,562

9,140

7%

Groupe PPR

7,602

8,595

13%

* Excludes traffic from public computers such as Internet cafes or access from mobile phones or PDAs.

Top 10 Gaining Properties by Percentage Change in French Unique Visitors, Age 15+
May 2007 vs. April 2007
Total France – Home and Work Locations*
Source: Comscore World Metrix

Apr.-07 (000)

May-07 (000)

Percentage Change

Total French Internet Audience, Age 15+

25,388

25,719

1%

IMPOTS.GOUV.FR

1,062

4,351

310%

FINANCES.GOUV.FR

794

2,528

219%

Karstadt-Quelle

1,178

2,557

117%

CNAF

1,421

2,544

79%

FLORAJET.COM

1,044

1,778

70%

RADIOBLOGCLUB.FR

1,612

2,427

51%

BONWEB.COM

1,106

1,664

50%

KIABI.COM

1,464

2,145

47%

Ciao Sites

2,617

3,676

40%

METEOFRANCE.COM

3,200

4,268

33%

*Ranking based on the top 100 French properties in May 2007.
** Excludes traffic from public computers such as Internet cafes or access from mobile phones or PDAs.

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