Zillow recently announced that June traffic was up 26% over last year, pulling in 10.7 million visitors. The company also reported that users have downloaded 1.75 million of its mobile apps.
Zillow traffic keeps growing, but no word on revenues, profits.
Formspring.me, a question and answer site that started last November, has shown amazing traffic growth this year. The service, which was created by Formstack, now has over 12 million accounts and 700 million questions.
As Formspring.me Passes 700 Million Questions, Brands Start Taking Notice.
The NY Times has a good review of the I Can Has Cheezburger website and network of other humor sites including Fail Blog. The Cheezburger network has been growing fast and recorded a record 16 million unique visitors in the month of May (source Quantcast).
I Can Has Cheezburger Blog Leads to a Web Empire – [...]
The World Cup is set to start tomorrow with host nation South Africa playing Mexico. Whether you call it soccer or futbol, one thing is for sure, traffic to sites like FIFA.com and the official Worldcup site is sure to surge.
Twitter is claiming that they are now receiving 190 million monthly visitors and 65 million tweets per day. By comparison, Compete shows that Facebook had 135 million visitors in April and Twitter had 21 million. So where ever these numbers come from, it appears as though Facebook is still MUCH larger than Twitter in terms [...]
Facebook recently passed up Google for page view traffic in the US and it’s just a matter of time before it does this for visitor traffic too. A recent Hitwise report shows how social networks have already passed search engines in the UK, in terms of visitor traffic.
Social networks more popular than search engines in [...]
Healthline, a leading online health resource, announced today that it has raised $14 million in a third round led by Investor Growth Capital, the venture arm of Investor AB. This brings the total funds invested in Healthline Networks to $72 million.
Healthline.com traffic has been fairly steady at 2 million visitors per month over the past [...]
Online social deal-finding and shopping site, Groupon, raised $135 million over the weekend from Digital Sky Technologies, a Russian Internet holding company that has investments in other notable startups including Facebook and Zynga. Groupon had previously raised $30 million in December, lead by Accel Partners.
Groupon’s visitor traffic has skyrocketed over the past 9 months, much [...]
Here is a look at comScore’s February “Inside The Ratings” report.
Valentine’s Day gave support to categories such as e-greeting sites and online flower & gift retail sites, both up 7% as well as dating sites which were collectively up 5% over January. Also performing well were tax websites (up 12% m/m) as the April 15th [...]
Hitwise, a web analytics company, today announced that Facebook surpassed Google to become the most visited website in the US last week, according to their tracking system.
This is the first time that Facebook has held the #1 spot for an entire week. They had previously become the top site for a few single days over [...]