Is the recession changing surfing habits?
Part of my job is watching what’s happening on the web, but there’s been a lot happening so I hadn’t have a chance to do that since April. I use Alexa.com’s top global websites, and checked out the state of play on the 22nd September 09.
Myspace is off the top ten, currently ranked 11th. 8/20 of the top twenty are search engines, only 3 are next gen services.
Facebook is second and the only social networking site in the top ten. Twitter is 13th globally (11th in the UK).
rapidshare.com is in the 17th slot worldwide, a file sharing site. Users can upload up to 100 meg files for sharing. Provides downloads of 100 megs per hour on the free service. Interesting as Flickr isn’t in the top 20.
So why have many social networking sites disappeared from the top ten? Surely, tough economic times really focus everyone on their relationships.
I do wonder if that is to do with both Google and Yahoo making a big play for the homepage market – both allow mail and apps to be accessed very easily from their users “own pages”. Are these efforts keeping the social networking sites at bay?
Posted: September 22nd, 2009 under 42.