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Apple continues as clear leader in visitors to computer manufacturers’ site


Apple continues to lead computer hardware manufacturers in terms of unique visitors to its web sites, Nielsen/NetRatings reports. Apple hosted 44 million unique visitors to its web sites in April, up 31% from 33.5 million a year ago. Hewlett Packard also experienced strong growth, up 34% to 17.3 million unique visitors from 12.9 million a year ago. Dell continued its slippage, with visitors down 8%.

The top 10 computer hardware manufacturer web sites by unique visitors in April (in millions), with April a year ago and year-over-year growth were:

  • Apple, 44.03, 33.54, 31%
  • Hewlett Packard, 17.30, 12.94, 34%
  • Dell, 15.43, 16.74, -8%
  • Sun Microsystems, 3.59, 3.42, 5%
  • IBM, 2.32, 2.54, -8%
  • Nintendo, 2.03, 0.77, 163%
  • XBOX, 1.75, 1.03, 69%
  • Gateway, 1.72, 1.71, 1%
  • Linksys, 1.55, 1.16, 34%
  • Palm, 1.45, 1.27, 14%
(Calculations of unique visitors count only once each shopper who came to a site, no matter how many times that shopper visited.)

By time spent per person on the site in April (hours:minutes:seconds), and number of visitors (in millions) the top 10 were:

  • MailFrontier, 3:10:57, 0.70
  • Apple, 1:06:52, 44.03
  • Toshiba, 0:17:10, 0.96
  • Dell, 0:17:05, 15.43
  • IBM, 0:13:31, 2.32
  • Cisco Systems, 0:12:53, 1.31
  • XBOX, 0:12:31, 1.75
  • Nintendo, 0:12:08, 2.03
  • Hewlett Packard, 0:10:23, 17.30
  • Gateway, 0:10:21, 1.72

The top categories among retail goods and services in June in terms of ad impressions (in millions) were:

  • Books, Movies & Music, 6,206.96,
  • Personal Care, 4,085.68,
  • Electronics, 2,939.83,
  • Auctions, 1,781.40,
  • Home Improvement, 1,196.47,
  • Events & Tickets, 1,093.98,
  • Apparel & Jewelry, 1,023.54,
  • Domestics, 327.40,
  • Flowers & Gifts, 287.04,
Miscellaneous services racked up 8.25 billion ad impressions.

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