Top 20 Web 2.0 Services
From the archive: published Aug 5, 2008, 18 years ago. Details may have changed since.
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.