14 DAY TRIAL // Apple, (its website, to be more exact), is in top on yet another global list of companies. As MacNN reports, the beloved Cupertino-based company now ranks 10 in the list of most popular worldwide web proprieties, according to January data from comScore.
The same source reported Apple's website to be ranked 11 in the comScore Media Metrix' list of Top 50 properties, in US. In January 2007, apple.com was viewed by little over 38 million unique visitors in the United States.
The research company found Apple's internet traffic to be 10 percent higher than in the previous year. Internet audiences have grown most in India (33 percent), the Russian federation (21 percent) and China (20 percent). China is now the second largest Internet population (86.8 million users), after the United States that holds 153.4 million users above the of 15 (according to comScore data).
This is the top 5 list of most popular web properties: Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Time Warner/AOL, and eBay. Apple had 116 million unique visitors, compared to Microsoft's or Google's 500 million.
This is a confirmation of people's growing interest in Apple and Apple products, world-wide. The Cupertino-based company, once a computer manufacturer, now leading name in consumer electronics, sells Mac computers, portable MacBooks and iPod players. It won't be long now and Apple TVs and iPhones will hit Apple's chain of retail stores. From then on, Apple's popularity can only go up.
About comScore World Metrix: it is the first service to continuously measure and report online behavior on a world-wide basis, providing visitation metrics and demographic characteristics for Web site audiences around the world. The data excludes traffic from public computers, PDAs or mobile phones.