Category: Technology Author : JR Posted: August 5, 2008
Tags : craigslist, ebay, Facebook, hitwise, myspace, web 2.0, wikipedia, youtube
Ever wonder who’s on top when it comes to Web 2.0 services? Hitwise Intelligence has some answers.
The research company has released a list of the top 20 Web 2.0 sites based on U.S. visits in July. It used Wikipedia’s definition of a service designed “to enhance creativity, information sharing, and, most notably, collaboration among users.”
Drumroll, please…
1. MySpace — 44.14% market share
2. eBay — 16.22% market share
3. Facebook — 13.03% market share
4. YouTube — 9.88% market share
5. Wikipedia — 4.76% market share
6. Craigslist — 3.14% market share
7. Yahoo Answers — 1.41% market share
8. myYearbook — 1.05% market share
9. Tagged — .95% market share
10. Flickr — .86% market share
11. Bebo — .71% market share
12. Meebo — .59% market share
13. BlackPlanet.com — .52% market share
14. GaiaOnline.com — .45% market share
15. Blogger — .40% market share
16. Adam4Adam — .35% market share
17. hi5 — .35% market share
18. WikiAnswers — .33% market share
19. IMEEM — .31% market share
20. LiveJournal — .30% market share
Hitwise points out that many of these are still independent and non-acquired. Also of note: Digg did not receive enough traffic to crack the top 20, according to the analysts.
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Aug 5, 2008
Ontario, good question. I should have included in the original post that the stats were based only on U.S. visits to the sites last month. Post is updated to reflect that.
Aug 5, 2008
As you can see from my FriendFeed comment, I extracted that information from the Hitwise item. Thanks for bringing it up front.
Aug 5, 2008
note that ALL of these (except maybe gaia online) have always been targetted at “normal” people. the twitters and friendfeeds and diggs of the world have an audience of white male computer professionals, and that deters the masses from joining in.
lesson: if a small 2.0 service is big on techcrunch and scoble, it's not going to be big on the whole internet.
Aug 5, 2008
Well-said…even if you're calling us all abnormal.
Feb 3, 2009
Hitwise is a terrible way to count. This is a company that's paid to use some measure. So if MySpace is one of these 1500 clients that pay Hitwise to do statistics, I cry foul!!!