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10 Responses to “ Which is the most visited website in the UK? ”

1. 
   MattWardman Apr 28th, 2008 at 7:40 pm

   via Twitter:
   http://www.bbc.co.uk.

2. 
   Asp Apr 28th, 2008 at 8:45 pm

   I’d have gone for BBC on first thought - but I’m thinking google may well trump it, at least on unique visitors…

   Asps last blog post..Misleading Headlines

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   David Keen Apr 28th, 2008 at 8:52 pm

   hmmm. Google, Itunes, or some gambling or gaming site. Do you mean Uk-based website, or site visited by UK-based web users? I wouldn’t be surprised if it was IPlayer at the beeb, I’ve watched more telly on that than the real thing in the last month.

   David Keens last blog post..A Good Diocesan Website, Mission Action Plans, and Diocesan Growth (or not)

4. 
   Dave Cole Apr 28th, 2008 at 9:00 pm

   Surely it’s mattwardman.com!

   It depends on what you mean by ‘in the UK’ - is it the UK based website with most hits, or the website with most UK hits, or the UK based website with most UK hits?

   I would have thought that bbc.co.uk would be up there; it wouldn’t surprise me if some of the sports betting sites were up there as well. Google.co.uk might be one.

5. 
   Stoker Apr 28th, 2008 at 9:02 pm

   Nah its mine

6. 
   MattWardman Apr 29th, 2008 at 12:43 am

   Thanks both.

   I thought someone would say that, Dave vbg.

7. 
   MattWardman Apr 29th, 2008 at 12:50 am

   >Surely it’s mattwardman.com!

   Just spotted that.

   I wish. Maybe…

8. 
   garbo Apr 29th, 2008 at 5:50 pm

   Google then BBC. Surely?

9. 
   MattWardman Apr 29th, 2008 at 7:19 pm

   I’ll put you out of your misery on this one. Here are the top 20 by market share of visits:

   1. http://www.google.co.uk 7.77% (Goog)
   2. http://mail.live.com 3.1% (MS)
   3. http://www.ebay.co.uk 2.75% (Ebay)
   4. http://www.facebook.com 2.07% (Indy)
   5. http://uk.msn.com 1.76% (MS)
   6. http://www.google.com 1.7% (Goog)
   7. http://www.bebo.com 1.45% (AOL)
   8. http://www.youtube.com 1.31% (Goog)
   9. http://news.bbc.co.uk 0.99% (Beeb)
   10. http://www.myspace.com 0.88% (Fox)
   11. http://www.bbc.co.uk 0.87% (Beeb)
   12. http://www.microsoft.com 0.85% (MS)
   13. http://uk.mail.yahoo.com 0.84% (Yahoo)
   14. http://uk.yahoo.com 0.79% (Yahoo)
   15. http://www.orange.co.uk 0.72% (France Telcom)
   16. http://www.wikipedia.org 0.61% (Wiki Foundation)
   17. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport 0.59% (Beeb)
   18. http://images.google.co.uk 0.58% (Goog)
   19. http://www.amazon.co.uk 0.48% (Amazon)
   20. http://www.msn.com 0.47% (MS)

   More detail at 10pm (ish).

   The figure that I’ll be focusing on are that Goog properties deliver more than a third of UK traffic (i.e., are the referrer) and a few implications.

   The data source is Hitwise.

10. 
    MattWardman Apr 29th, 2008 at 7:32 pm

    Hey Stoker

    Great to hear from you again.

    Matt

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