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Facebook Leads in the Top 1,000 Sites
by Ranju Chaudhary on May.28, 2010, under What's Happening?
According to Google’s AdPlanner stats, Facebook is the #1 most-visited destination on the web. Weighing in at an unfathomably heavy 570 billion page views and 540 million users, the ubiquitous social network outranks every other non-Google site, taking more than 35% of all web traffic measured.
The stats, which do not include data from Google
.com andYouTube
, detail the categories, users and page views for each of the top 1,000 sites on the Internet
. They also tell which sites have advertising. Wikipedia
and Mozilla.com are the only two sites in the top 10 that remain ad-free.
Destinations such as Mozilla.com, Yahoo.com, MSN.com and Live.com sit high in the rankings due in large part to their status as default landing pages for various browsers.
When it comes to non-Facebook social media properties, Twitter ranks 18th with 5.4 billion page views,Flickr
is 31st with 1.8 billion views and LinkedIn
sits in 56th place at 1.7 billion views.
And the usual blogging sites make appearances, too. Blogspot is in 7th place, WordPress
in 12th andBlogger
in 53rd.
Other popular destinations, according to Google’s report, are international web portals such as Baidu, Sina, 163.com and Sohu. Though relatively unheard of in American tech press, these sites are the online equivalent of our solar system’s Jupiter: enormous and a bit out of our reach.
Bank of America and PayPal also made the list, coming in at 93rd and 39th, respectively. And in the news category we find the BBC, which was ranked 43rd with 2.5 billion hits, followed by the New York Times’ website, ranked 83rd with 600 million views.
We think it’s pretty spectacular and surprising that Facebook has come to dominate global web traffic in just afew short years. Are any of these stats eyebrow-raising to you?
Is the iPad Killing Netbooks? [STATS]
by Ranju Chaudhary on May.26, 2010, under Latest Web Technologies, Trends, What's Happening?
According to new data from consumer electronics company Retrevo, iPads might be putting a significant dent in netbook sales.
Tablets in general are newer, sexier and sleeker than netbooks, their hardworking if relatively old-school counterparts. When iPads were announced, many consumers put off their netbook purchase plans in order to try out and consider buying an iPad instead.
And for folks currently considering a smaller, portable computer, an overwhelming majority are leaning more toward iPads.

That being said, laptops are also holding a steady lead in the portable computer market. In the past year and the current year, 65% of consumers who had to choose between a netbook and a laptop went for the latter in the end.

If you had to choose between a laptop, a netbook and an iPad, which way would you lean, and why? Do you think netbook sales will suffer further when non-Apple tablets are released?

