ViziSense releases monthly web rankings

ViziSense, an online audience measurement and analytics platform, released its monthly web rankings of the top five sites by category for the month of June 2009. These top sites have been ranked across 18 categories. The rankings are for sites with the highest 'unique' users within that category.

The monthly web ranking data claims to provide a macro-view of traffic and popularity metrics across key categories with insights into the top performing online properties, audience reach and usage and audience duplication within the category. The categories include web portals, job search, search, social networking, photo and video sharing, email, education, matrimony, real estate, travel e-commerce, e-commerce, banking, B2C classifieds, B2B classifieds, automobiles, entertainment, music and sports.

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According to ViziSense data, social networking and photo and video sharing sites are high on the popularity charts, as 50 per cent of the Indian internet audience finds themselves hooked on to these sites. For instance, the category of social networking for June 2009 shows Orkut (both orkut.co.in and orkut.com) leading with 14.9 million unique users, followed by Facebook with 6.92 million unique users. Bharatstudent.com ranked third with 2.49 million unique users, ibibo.com with 2.29 unique users ranked fourth, and Tagged.com with 1.53 million unique users were listed among the top five websites.

In the email category Yahoo! Mail had 18.3 million users in June 2009, while Gmail.com had 17.2 million unique users. Rediffmail.com and MSN mail, on the other hand, were with 6.50 million and 4 million unique users, while the newly launched in.com had 913K unique users.