Apple.com 10th most popular Web site in January
Apple.com was the tenth most popular Web site on the Internet for the month of January, when the top sites were ranked by brand, according to Nielsen NetRatings.
Figures released today show Apple.com received just shy of 35 million unique visitors, each of whom spent an average of 1 hour and 6 minutes browsing the company's content.
Yahoo, Microsoft, MSN and Google led all brand Web sites, topping 105 million, 97 million, 94 million, and 91 million unique visits each, respectively. They were followed by AOL, eBay, Amazon and MapQuest.
Real took the ninth spot in January, with edging out by less than 1.2 million unique visitors.
In November Apple led internet retailers in unique visitors, and in December the company was discovered to be the fastest growing site on the internet among the top brands.
Meanwhile, this January it was reported that Apple's iTunes service is being actively used by 14 percent of the Internet population. The service has sky-rocketed in popularity by 241 percent over the past year -- rising from 6.1 million unique visitors in December of 2004 to 20.7 million in December of 2005.
Figures released today show Apple.com received just shy of 35 million unique visitors, each of whom spent an average of 1 hour and 6 minutes browsing the company's content.
Yahoo, Microsoft, MSN and Google led all brand Web sites, topping 105 million, 97 million, 94 million, and 91 million unique visits each, respectively. They were followed by AOL, eBay, Amazon and MapQuest.
Real took the ninth spot in January, with edging out by less than 1.2 million unique visitors.
In November Apple led internet retailers in unique visitors, and in December the company was discovered to be the fastest growing site on the internet among the top brands.
Meanwhile, this January it was reported that Apple's iTunes service is being actively used by 14 percent of the Internet population. The service has sky-rocketed in popularity by 241 percent over the past year -- rising from 6.1 million unique visitors in December of 2004 to 20.7 million in December of 2005.
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Even if you assume that wasn't all at once (maybe six 11-minute visits over the course of the month, for instance), that's still a lot of staying power.
I guess people are looking at iPod accesories?
Originally posted by polyester
What's the most surprising to me is that Microsoft.com beat out MSN and Google.
It's from all the Mac users being automatically directed there when WMP for OS X won't open up new pr0n.
--B
Originally posted by JeffDM
I'm surprised Real edged out Apple. I didn't know they were still somewhat relevant, I thought their player and formats were distant third place.
I certainly don't consider them relevant...
I've always thought Real mad really good interfaces for their products. Real Player for OSX is quite sharp and I remember being quite impressed when I was a Windows user at how they made the logo spill off from the title bar to the command bar within windows.
Originally posted by Sekio
While we're on the topic of Real, why has it lost such realivance in the marketplace? I remember when I had to use real almost if not as often as WMP and Quicktime. I rarelt use Real player now and it seems to be less and less all the time.
I've always thought Real mad really good interfaces for their products. Real Player for OSX is quite sharp and I remember being quite impressed when I was a Windows user at how they made the logo spill off from the title bar to the command bar within windows.
I always liked to watch videos instead of interface or commercials. Could we finally get rid of real player, and use open / standard codecs to pack our videos
Originally posted by Sekio
While we're on the topic of Real, why has it lost such realivance in the marketplace? I remember when I had to use real almost if not as often as WMP and Quicktime. I rarelt use Real player now and it seems to be less and less all the time.
I've always thought Real mad really good interfaces for their products. Real Player for OSX is quite sharp and I remember being quite impressed when I was a Windows user at how they made the logo spill off from the title bar to the command bar within windows.
I haven't used their OS X version much, but in the past, the web site and installer for Real Player was extremely deceptive to the point that there was significant backlash from users and even in the news media, such as BBC. The free player was intentionally hard to find, and the pay-for installer installed extra for-pay modules without telling the user because some checkbox options were down a scroll list which there was no scroll bar, leading to a bigger than expected credit card bill. Shady at best.
Originally posted by doh123
I liked how Real player used to hose my whole system up all the time... that was the best feature.
I'd recommend YouTube.com for posting and viewing quick low-rez videos. No software installations needed.