Facebook Breaks into Top 10 Ranking for the First Time

comScore Media Metrix Ranked Top 50 U.S. Web Properties for January 2009

ComScore Ranked top online properties for January 2009 based on data from the comScore Media Metrix service. The Tax category led as the top-gaining category as January marked the beginning of tax season, while Job Search, Government and travel-related sites also witnessed strong gains.


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Top 50 Web Properties

Google Sites continued to lead as the most visited property in January with 151 million visitors, followed by Yahoo! Sites with 146.1 million visitors and Microsoft Sites with 125.6 million visitors. Facebook climbed one spot to capture the #10 position with 57.2 million visitors, marking the first time in its history that Facebook has reached the Top 10. While its competitor MySpace.com doesn’t even figure in the top 50. Another reason to believe that FaceBook is consolidating as the leader in Social Networking area.


comScore Top 50 Properties (U.S.)

January 2009

Total U.S. – Home, Work and University Locations

Unique Visitors (000)

Source: comScore Media Metrix

Rank

Property

Unique Visitors

(000)

Total Internet : Total Audience

191,863

1

Google Sites

151,010

2

Yahoo! Sites

146,131

3

Microsoft Sites

125,568

4

AOL LLC

108,441

5

Fox Interactive Media

90,510

6

Ask Network

74,742

7

eBay

72,160

8

Amazon Sites

64,768

9

Wikimedia Foundation Sites

62,737

10

FACEBOOK.COM

57,232

11

Glam Media

55,293

12

Turner Network

54,877

13

Apple Inc.

54,194

14

CBS Corporation

53,539

15

New York Times Digital

49,110

16

Viacom Digital

46,510

17

Weather Channel, The

40,056

18

craigslist, inc.

39,437

19

AT&T Interactive Network

38,184

20

Adobe Sites

35,315

21

Comcast Corporation

33,940

22

Wal-Mart

33,513

23

Superpages.com Network

32,558

24

Verizon Communications Corporation

32,412

25

Disney Online

30,345

26

Target Corporation

28,628

27

Time Warner – Excluding AOL

27,209

28

Weatherbug Property

26,944

29

Bank of America

26,322

30

United Online, Inc

26,048

31

Gorilla Nation

25,585

32

AT&T, Inc.

25,574

33

Answers.com Sites

25,563

34

Demand Media

25,447

35

CareerBuilder LLC

24,750

36

Everyday Health

24,717

37

Shopzilla.com Sites

24,097

38

Photobucket.com LLC

23,928

39

WordPress

23,730

40

Real.com Network

23,359

41

Expedia Inc

22,703

42

JPMorgan Chase Property

22,399

43

Monster Worldwide

22,244

44

Gannett Sites

21,829

45

WorldNow – ABC Owned Sites

21,586

46

WebMD Health

21,185

47

iVillage.com: The Womens Network

21,002

48

NBC Universal

20,974

49

WhitePages

19,351

50

ESPN

19,266


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