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MSN reffers more Traffic than Yahoo?

[seth_wilde]

Well, the good news is that websnapshot is showing current reffer stats once again. Some interesting developments have taken place since March (the last time they updated). They now have MSN at #1 with a 31.5% market share, Yahoo's at #2 with a 24.9% market share (that's the first time I've ever seen Yahoo anywhere besides 1st on any stats report) Google rounds out the top 3 with a 14.5% market share.

On a side note AV has rebounded from it's vertical discent somewhat coming in at #5 with 4.5% market share.

[websnapshot.mycomputer.com...]

[bill]

I don't know how accurate those stats are. MyComputer essentially scrapped their data source for WebSnapshot when they elimanted the free SuperStats program (along with all the rest of their free services). Now it costs upwards of $30 US per month to subscribe to this service. I think you're looking at a very thin slice of the Internet pie there.

[chiyo]

not only is a thin slice.. the sample also is non random and skewed. I would presume they only use the stats from sites that use their tracking service. So it possibly reflects sites who use these types of services rather than their own log analysis programs. A high proportion of small and amateur sites I would guess - in that case Im not surprised MSN comes up first.

[2_much]

I was pretty shocked when I saw this because I had been noticing this same exact trend on my sites. Yahoo's traffic for top ranked sites seems to be decreasing. Sites with similar rankings on both MSN and Yahoo, where before they were getting more traffic from Yahoo, are now getting more traffic from MSN.

I'm definitely looking more into the Looksmart/MSN combo...However, I'm concerned about Looksmart's financial situation so I'm trying not to submit too many sites to them.

[rcjordan]

>this same exact trend on my sites.

I'll second that. From a general interest page currently doing 40k uniques per month:

1. MSN - 29.02%
   
2. Yahoo - 22.11%
   
3. Excite - 10.27%
   
4. Google
   
5. Altavista
   
6. Goto.com
   
7. Lycos
   
8. Looksmart
   
9. Dogpile
   
10. HotBot
    
11. Metacrawler

[seth_wilde]

I've always been impressed about how well mycomputer seems to match up with what I see across my clients sites. Although I have seen an upward trend with MSN I think Yahoo is still beating them on 90% of my clients sites.

"Excite - 10.27%"

Wow! Either you really kick @ss on excite or you need some more links for google :)

[rcjordan]

>kick @ss on excite

Old-timers here might recall City.Net [city.net] (see where the redirect ends up). I had one (local geographic) regional domain and 5 satellite city domains written into Excite's DNA when they acquired what one.