Top Online Properties of August 2001

ComScore Networks and DoubleClick’s Diameter credit the return of millions of students to college nationwide with re-energizing Internet activity in August.

According to the data, a surge of 45 percent in the college-based Web audience drove a 2.3 percent increase in total in total U.S. Web users to 129 million from July and August, virtually restoring the domestic audience to its pre-summer level.

On the e-commerce front, online buying data from comScore found that overall dollar sales across a broad sample of e-commerce sites declined by 2 percent from July to August, with smaller shopping baskets offsetting an increase of 3 percent in the number of onlinbe purchases.

Top 50 Properties of August 2001 U.S. and Worldwide
Rank		Property	Unique Visitors
Aug.	July		U.S. (000)	Worldwide (000)
1.	1.	Microsoft Corp. (a)	93,818	224,668
2.	2.	Yahoo Inc.	87,009	198,303
3.	3.	AOL Time Warner (b)	86,885	161,218
4.	4.	Terra Lycos	48,875	126,195
5.	6.	Amazon.com Inc.	34,083	70,299
6.	5.	At Home Corp.	33,131	68,758
7.	7.	US Government	30,622	44,195
8.	9.	eBay	29,891	48,783
9.	8.	Primedia Inc.	29,890	65,080
10.	11.	CNET Networks Inc.	28,275	69,379
11.	10.	InfoSpace Inc.	28,120	56,988
12.	12.	Vivendi Universal	27,013	59,489
13.	14.	Walt Disney Internet Group	23,882	36,791
14.	19.	eUniverse Inc.	21,790	35,566
15.	13.	Classmates Online Inc.	21,704	29,993
16.	15.	RealNetworks	21,231	49,024
17.	17.	Google	20,994	58,976
18.	16.	USA Networks Inc.	19,937	28,061
19.	24.	Ask Jeeves Inc.	19,718	37,058
20.	18.	GoTo.com	18,171	34,130
21.	21.	Viacom Inc.	17,135	27,968
22.	20.	CMGI Inc.	16,817	46,980
23.	70.	HomeStore.com Inc. (c)	15,145	20,938
24.	33.	American Greetings	13,532	22,198
25.	26.	EarthLink Inc.	13,225	29,554
26.	35.	Synapse Group Inc.	12,904	18,873
27.	23.	iVillage Inc.	12,659	18,943
28.	31.	Bonzi Software	12,556	25,667
29.	28.	FortuneCity.com Inc.	12,391	37,677
30.	34.	NextCard Inc.	12,228	18,658
31.	29.	iWon Inc.	11,932	13,846
32.	25.	Homestead Technologies Inc.	11,899	22,938
33.	37.	Landmark Communications	11,894	13,904
34.	32.	Macromedia Inc.	11,720	28,056
35.	46.	ColumbiaHouse	11,451	17,503
36.	30.	Bertelsmann AG	10,916	17,213
37.	38.	Sabre Inc.	10,613	12,884
38.	40.	Verizon Communications Inc.	9,817	12,425
39.	39.	NetZero Inc.	9,725	11,920
40.	NA	InPhonic Inc.	9,717	13,193
41.	43.	Traffix Inc.	9,705	13,604
42.	41.	AT&T Corp.	9,460	11,405
43.	61.	GameSpy Industries	9,265	21,837
44.	77.	Rank You Inc.	8,847	18,492
45.	45.	Electronic Arts	8,650	15,261
46.	53.	Orbitz LLC	8,503	12,953
47.	56.	WebMD Corp.	8,458	17,631
48.	44.	Sony Corp.	8,446	17,893
49.	52.	Cox Enterprises Inc.	8,395	9,623
50.	48.	Providian Financial Corp.	8,296	11,892
a) includes nbci.com and snap.com b) Does not include proprietary network c) Includes Iplace.com Source: comScore/Diameter

Definitions:

Property: netScore Properties represent an aggregate of web sites that are all controlled by a larger entity. The controlling entity must have at least a 50% ownership in the web site for the web site to be included in the aggregation.

Unique Visitors Worldwide (000s): Provides an unduplicated count of all individually identified machines, located throughout the world whose users understand the English language, that made a visit to a selected property or domain during a given analysis period.

Unique Visitors U.S. (000s):
Provides an unduplicated count of all individually identified machines located in the United States that made a visit to a selected property or domain during a given analysis period.