Prince McLean
Apple Computer last month saw more visitors to its website than any other PC manufacturer or computer electronics company, ranking high on a list of the Internet's most trafficked properties.
For Apple, that marks a more than 21 percent increase in its web reach from December 2005, the last time comScore released Web activity data for months during holiday shopping period.
In December 2005, Apple ranked No. 17 on the list, having served up web pages to just under 28 million visitors.
Yahoo-, Time Warner-, Microsoft-, Google- and eBay-owned websites comprised last month's list of the top five most popular Web properties. They were followed by sites owned by Fox Interactive Media, Ask, Amazon, Wal-Mart, and the New York Times.
Just above Apple, ranking eleventh and twelfth respectively, were Viacom Digital and Wikipedia sites.
YouTube, one of this year's industry headliners, placed behind Apple at No. 18, reaching just shy of 25.5 million visitors last month.
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Apple beat Youtube
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It would be interesting if the groups of sites like "Yahoo! Sites" and" "Microsoft Sites" were broken down to tell how many sites were in that group. It's not really fair to compare groups of sites vs individual sites even if they are owned by one company.
25.5 Million is not shy at all...
Does anyone know if this figure includes iTunes Store traffic?
Does anyone know if this figure includes iTunes Store traffic?
Probably. iTunes uses webkit and is basically a web browser.
http://phobos.apple.com is the iTunes Store