Facebook overtakes Yahoo! to become 3rd-most-visited Web property
Facebook has passed Yahoo! to become the 3rd-most-visited Web property in the world, according to web analytics site ComScore. ComScore's November numbers showed Facebook at 648 million unique visitors per month to Yahoo!'s 630 million. Meanwhile, Google and Microsoft are still hanging tough in the number 1 and 2 spots. These stats take into account all of the sites' separate services and pages, such as YouTube, Bing and Hotmail, and not just their homepages. This seems like it should work in favor of a large network like Yahoo!, but Facebook's growth has been massive in 2010, while Yahoo!'s numbers have remained flat.
Yahoo! can still take a little comfort in the fact that it's beating Facebook in the US (for now, anyway) by a margin of about 30 million unique visitors a month.
Yahoo! can still take a little comfort in the fact that it's beating Facebook in the US (for now, anyway) by a margin of about 30 million unique visitors a month.













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Subscribe to commentssanmanDec 27th 2010 3:37PM
people still visit yahoo??
SilverWaveDec 27th 2010 8:09PM
@sanman
Yeah weird or what?
:-|
kostyalevinDec 27th 2010 5:17PM
I don't get all this Yahoo-bashing, or talk that Yahoo is irrelevant. Just by this survey, it is the 4th most visited web service around with a stable user base. That's no small feat. Admittedly,Yahoo's not as revolutionary and cutting-edge as it once was, but it is still a very relevant service provider.
I, for one, still use Yahoo Mail daily, my news aggregator is My Yahoo, I use Flickr, and I even do some searching with Yahoo Search (although admittedly Google does a better job at search).
Facebook is a good service that has been executed marvelously. But it's still young; I've been using Yahoo since '94. Where will Facebook be in ten years?
Yahoo's usage is growing at a slower pace than it should and they are right to be concerned, but they are by no means out of the game.
SilverWaveDec 27th 2010 8:10PM
@kostyalevin
Well they sold out to MS and dont even do search any more...
And they are divesting them selves of Staff and Content...
So that may be a clue?
LeonickDec 28th 2010 7:55AM
@SilverWave
doesn't do search anymore, true, still does mail though and are in my opinion the very best at it, their web client is unrivaled... not that i use it, just get everything in my phone and ipad but still lot's of regular users are using yahoos mail and for good reason too