According to Media Matrix, Apple ranked 31st among all web sites and drew 17,055,000 unique US visitors in June 2005. Apple.com was the number one most-visited computer maker web site. Sony Online (#43) had 14,230,000 visitors, Dell (#45) had 13,816,000, and Adobe (#49) had 12,971,000.
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Apple leads all computer makers with most web traffic; visits up 26-percent in May – July 12, 2005 (according to Nielsen/NetRatings)
Tempus? You out there?
How many of those visits were PC users visiting only to update iTunes or iPod software? And then leaving, not checking out Apple’s computer products?
“How many of those visits were PC users visiting only to update iTunes or iPod software? And then leaving, not checking out Apple’s computer products?”
And how many were people went for iPod+iTunes and stayed for the Macs?
Does Apple break down their sales on their 10-Q in such a way that one can tell how much hardware was sold during a quarter on from the Apple Store Online, the Apple Store Retail, and third-party vendors? I’d be interested to see the average number of online visits in relation to online sales…
Just wondering…
Do visits to the iTMS count as a traffic to the Apple site? Anyone know? If so, I’m sure that’s where the bulk of the hits are coming from.
Microsoft pushes people to msn.com as the default start up page on Windows computers not microsoft.com. Where does msn.com rank? If microsoft.com ranked high I think Gates would not be happy. He wants Windows users to go to msn.com instead.
MDN: Since when did Adobe become a computer maker?
Of course ITMS doesn’t count as web traffic. It’s not a website and doesn’t use HTML.
“Of course ITMS doesn’t count as web traffic. It’s not a website and doesn’t use HTML.”
Isn’t iTunes running modified HTML? I seem to recall that it is. That it could actually be hacked to display a web page. In theory, then the iTunes music store would be a website, yes?
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replay.. no no no no.. don’t even go there.. no!