Tax related Web sites had the biggest gains in traffic in the month of January with a 176 percent increase to 24.7 million visitors, according to comScore.
Career and job search sites also saw strong growth during the month. The job search category was up 42 percent to 26.7 million visitors and the career category increased 26 percent to 48.9 million visitors. The growth in both categories can largely be attributed to the increased amount of job losses.
comScore Gives Google Maps January Win
Don’t be surprised if members of the Google Maps team start to favor comScore over competing traffic-monitoring companies. comScore may have just helped them secure some bonuses by putting Google Maps ahead of MapQuest in terms of unique visitors.
Some Bright Spots For Ecommerce In January
January was a month of casual browsing, with limited purchases at online retailers, according to a report from marketing firm Coremetrics.
The number of online sessions in which consumers browsed a Web site, viewing at least one product page, stayed largely flat compared to December 2008. The number of sessions in which consumers actually completed an order was down 21 percent.
YouTube Had 9 Billion Video Views In January
YouTube received 9.8 billion video views in the U.S. for the month of January, down slightly from December’s record-breaking totals of 10.1 billion, comScore reported today.
January’s Top Ten Online Retailers Identified
Following the holiday bonanza, January can be a dead month for many retailers. Recent numbers from Nielsen revealed the ten companies that best survived (in terms of online conversion rates) the quiet time.
Wii Top Seller For January
Research firm the NPD Group has released its U.S. retail sales figures for January 2008.
Software sales for the month were up by 11 percent to $611 million, hardware sales dropped by a quarter to $378 million. Overall the industry was down 6 percent for the month managing to reach $1.18 billion compared to January 2007 sales of $1.25 billion.
AOL Experiences Interesting January Growth
Companies are always trying to pass off deceiving statements or misleading data, and we pride ourselves on being suspicious types. January AOL numbers have been presented by Frank Gruber, however, and they look pretty good in terms of both believability and AOL’s performance.
Google Increases Search Share in January
It’s no secret that Google is the top dog in the realm of search. Perched atop the mountain, the company has yet to be knocked off of its perch, or even face any serious threat to its dominance in the industry. According to January’s figure, don’t look for that trend to change anytime soon.
Just A Little Less Firefox In January
The New Year started for the Mozilla Foundation’s Firefox browser as it did for a lot of people, with a little bit of an unsteady step backwards.
iPhone Coming in January?
A recent trademark filing by Apple for the iPhone moniker all but solidifies that a mobile mp3-media-gaming-wifi-everything phone could be announced as early as January.