comScore Networks tracks Internet usage. They use a sampling approach "based on a massive, global cross-section of more than 2 million consumers who have given comScore explicit permission to confidentially capture their browsing and transaction behavior, including online and offline purchasing."
I don't subscribe to their service but I do follow their press releases. Around the middle of each month they give highlights of the last month's trends. Today's release gives data for the US-only for May.
Given my interest in Internet communities like MySpace and in mobile Internet accessible communities like Cyworld and 12WAP, I found the highlights for May especially interesting:
- US Internet population 172.1 M
- MySpace unique visitors up 7% month over month to 51.4 M
- YouTube unique visitors almost doubles (in one month!) to 12.7 M
- Total visitors to all "community" sites they track were up 6% month over month
Whatever negative press MySpace has experienced, it doesn't seem to have slowed things down!
"Whatever negative press MySpace has experienced, it doesn't seem to have slowed things down!'
I often feel amazed to see the super growth of Internet in such a short time. I first experienced internet in 1997 and at that time only few hundred people knew about this technology in my country. In just 9 years now few million people have used it.
Posted by: Razib Ahmed | June 19, 2006 at 08:03 AM