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 [...]
Interesting article on how Compete.com gets some of its web traffic data. Apparently it’s partially from a popular toolbar that violated its privacy notice.
We were recently pointed to this post from last month by Ben Edelman, a Harvard privacy advocate. In it, he details the data the Upromise toolbar collects and sends out. This toolbar [...]
Barclays Capital recently came out with their February “Internet Data Book.” The report provides up-to-date statistics on the Internet industry overall, and more specifically on the 13 companies in their coverage universe and covers financial metrics and valuation, Internet usage, online advertising, mobile, e-commerce, online travel, and company-specific information and models.
What is interesting about this [...]