Basically whatever value the graph is at, is the number of people on the web per million that visit that site. Ex: the 200,000 represents 200,000 people out of every million web surfers, visit the site, or 1/5 of all web surfers.
its a good comparison to see who is getting more traffic from people with that dreaded alexa toolbar.
Google.com is a search engine, msn.com is a nwes portal, which also has a search engine available. I dont think they are a good comparison of each other. Iteresting, but not relevant.
Daily visits. MSN have a search field on their homepage just as google. MSN may look like a bloated portal but google is in many ways also a 'portal'.
Well I just posted a report on this tread about the "ReachRank" of the top-10 sites on the net. It indicates that Google has'nt even caught up with Yahoo! yet: (full report here Is Google losing market share? http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=36727 -------------------------------------- United States: Top 10 Parent Companies Month of October 2005 -------------------------------------- Parent Name Unique Audience(000) Reach % Time Per Person -------------------------------------- 01-Microsoft 51,089 89.84 01:57:03 02-Yahoo! 43,586 76.65 03:24:40 03-Google 41,105 72.29 00:55:16
Yes. It's obvious that most people will visit a portal site such as Yahoo, MSN etc at least once/multiple times a day to see content changes. Also taking into consideration that most new PC's have MSN set as the default page the stats are a bit skewed. As far as search engines go, Google is tops, no matter what any comparison stats tell you. Ask any webmaster where most of their SE traffic is coming from and most of them (except those in the Sandbox ) will definitely tell you Google! The traffic brought in by MSN and Yahoo are in most cases around 10 - 20% of what Google brings to the party. That's enough proof for me.
same here, this is the point I was trying to make with the comment about comparing apples and oranges. Their markets, although somewhat aligned are not the same. Thanks for the red rep to whoever this offended.
I can't see in the foreseeable future Google overtaking MSN and Yahoo in the the number of referrals. I rank higher in Yahoo and MSN compared to Google, but the number of referrals is considerably less.
Well Google referrals are responsible for around 60% of my traffic, but that's on a site that ranks pretty high in Google itself. So it seems that it's relative to your position in Google.
Alexa numbers are utterly meaningless in any context because they're based entirely on users willing to download spyware onto their computer. There's a reason why tribalfusion and doubleclick are in the top 20. Whenever people count microsoft, they're usually counting MSN.com, Microsoft.com, Hotmail.com, ans Passport.com. Every hit to MSN results in a hit to passport as well (if you sign in). The same is true for hotmail. The real traffic popularity is something like: Yahoo! Google MSN There isn't a single legitimate website out there that has a significant amount of traffic (2-3k page views per day) that doesn't get the majority of their traffic from Google (ok, maybe from returning visitors in some cases). MSN only does as well as it does because it's the default home page in IE. THAT should have been a bigger concern for the DoJ when the anti-trust trial was under way, but like they say, "hindsight is 20/20".
What position is your site listed at? I should have elaborated a bit. Google provides the most traffic especially if your site is listed in the top 100. A lower ranking can also provide some results. When I changed my domain name a few months back and the site wasn't listed in Google at all for a while, the traffic I received from MSN and Yahoo was neglible at best.
the only reason for that is because your site does not have comparable rankings in google... it's probably penalized in some manner, or your seo is not what google wants to see... you need to find out what the problem is, and fix it. the reason that google drives more traffic is because it performs more searches than any other search engine... 350 million/day, vs. 200 million/day for yahoo, per omma estimates. total traffic to a portal is not relevant to people on this forum, search engine traffic is what counts.
Using Alexa rankings, number of referrals to your site or number of visitors per day to compare market sare of searches between G, Y & M is absurd. None of those 3 measures have anything to do with search market share. Alexa is an easily manipulated piece of crap. Using it to base any conclusions on is silly. Your referrals are based more on your rankings than anything else. I have a site that gets 400 uniques a day from MSN on 1 term and about 5 from Google. Does that mean MSN has 80x the reach of Google? NO! It means I am ranked #2 on MSN and #130 on Google. my.yahoo.com is the home page on all of my browsers on all of my computers. I probably start 100 sessions a day there. But I probably search Google 10x for every 1x I search Yahoo (unless it's a backlink ching day). If you look at session data, it would show that I use Yahoo 10x more than Google. Obviously, a hugely flawed number to be judging by. Maybe the next set of SEARCH data will show Google losing ground. But all of the reports I've seen for quite some time now show Google gaining, not losing when it comes to search.
Most MSN visitor probably don't know how to change their IE setting for default homepage. So it's always MSN for them, HEHE