Online Traffic Trends: Monster and Expedia Falling

In October, there were exactly 20 domains with over 20 million unique visitors. This is it. The elite of the elite:

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• There is a gap of *33 million* unique visitors between #3 AOL and #4 MSN.
• Name a website that gets between 80-100 million unique visitors a month? Trick question. There are none! The top 3 domains - Yahoo, Google and AOL - are truly in a class of their own. There were NO domains with unique visitor traffic between 80-100 million (see chart below).
• Who is new on this list? (compared to Oct ‘05):
  • Adobe.com
  • Live.com
  • Wikipedia.org
  • YouTube.com
• Who is absent? (compared to Oct ‘05):
  • Expedia.com
  • Monster.com
  • Paypal.com
  • Weather.com

  Interesting note: Even though Paypal.com and Weather.com fell out of the top-20, unique visitor traffic to those domains is actually up.

  

Comments

[John Doe]

There is one explanation for the absence of EXPEDIA: people are being alerted of how bad they are. A simple search in Google of is very illustrative. Even an article in Wikipedia mention that some customers complained about several aspects of Expedia's service