Glam Media? #7 in 2013, on the list since 2008. Never heard of them, and I'm struggling to figure out what their deal is. Seems they've recently raised a series <i>G</i> round of funding, and have an array of web properties that I can't really find a list of, the primary ones being <a href="http://www.glam.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.glam.com</a> and <a href="http://www.brash.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.brash.com</a>, which are shockingly useless marketing vehicles that I really can't believe anyone would visit on a regular basis. Anyone have any insight?
I'm genuinely surprised that Yahoo tops Google in 2013 and 2010. Especially considering Android, Gmail etc. proliferation on top of it's domination of search
It's not clear from the graphic or the article, but the list of top "sites" is actually the top <i>networks</i> - showing all of the network's sites' traffic is aggregated together. So "Fox" represents traffic from IGN.com and Myspace.com as well.
When I started looking through this, I wondered if any of the early-2000s adware platforms would make an appearance... and there it was! Gator at #17 in 2001. I was working at the tech bench at Best Buy in high school and removal of it and the other adware apps of that era must have been 75% of my job.
Now we just need a list of the most popular <i>Internet applications</i> of the last 10 - 15 years. I suspect that the web is still the largest non-proprietary application (perhaps followed by email), but it would be nice to see how it compares to the others.
Surprised to see Ask still on the list. I haven't personally browsed there since maybe y2k. Not to be facetious, but I imagine a whole segment of users unaware of Google (or DDG, or another sensible modern alternative) and still relying on Ask.
CBS, Turner, Weather Co, Comcast NBC, and Gannett are all solidly old media. NBC and CBS got started with radio broadcasts in the 20s! Who says old media can't adapt?
Delighted to see Ebay losing out to Amazon, their terrible site design/layout + all sorts of Paypal horror stories must have driven millions of users away
<i>> Mostly, however, the list is garbage nonsense like “GNN” and “Teleport,” which we don’t even know what they are.</i><p>Funny. Just before opening the page I was thinking about how high GNN would feature on the list. The web site is actually still the first entry on the Wikipedia GNN page.
This list is completely bias, there is no way that Facebook is behind Microsoft in 2013.<p>Something that looks more real:<p><a href="http://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/US" rel="nofollow">http://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/US</a>