July 2008 Real Search Market Share per Compete

Disclaimer: SEO Theory is not associated with Compete.com and the SEO Theory real search market share report is an estimate based on data provided by Compete.com for free through its Web site. Compete.com has not endorsed this report. These traffic estimates may not represent actual unique visitor data.

The following tables are based on Compete’s estimated U.S. visitors for the selected domains. The domains listed here were included in the June 2008 Real Search Market Share report because Compete estimated a minimum of 100,000 visitors for each.

The report is divided into three tables: Algorithmic Search, Directory Search, and Blog Search.

Listings marked with an asterisk ( * ) are root domains where in the Quantcast data I was able to use search-specific sub-domains.

July 2008 Algorithmic Search Market Share by Visitors per Compete
June Rank	July Rank	Domain	June Visitors	July Visitors
1	1	Google.com	135,834,459	130,430,288
2	2	Yahoo.com*	132,881,991	128,556,575
3	3	Live.com	80,473,387	78,077,825
4	4	Msn.com*	77,740,815	75,442,415
5	5	Aol.com*	55,476,781	55,011,692
7	6	Ask.com	27,134,880	26,905,478
6	7	Nextag.com	39,788,271	17,657,259
10	8	Snap.com	3,868,965	8,358,076
8	9	Mywebsearch.com*	9,643,749	6,148,770
9	10	Dogpile.com	4,180,188	4,402,469
-	11	Cuil.com	-	2,053,777
11	12	Search.com	1,604,524	1,504,665
13	13	Aboutus.org	1,245,160	1,367,387
12	14	Altavista.com	1,343,558	1,270,943
14	15	Alexa.com	868,739	858,085
15	16	A9.com	792,219	850,711
16	17	Hakia.com	435,131	262,417
18	18	Ixquick.com	100,106	113,520
17	19	Clusty.com	121,891	108,459

Cuil received significant traffic toward the end of the month and so has been included in this report.

As with the Quantcast data, both Snap and Nextag experienced radical changes in traffic estimates. Snap has gained position by both services’ metrics.

July 2008 Directory Search Market Share by Visitors per Compete
June Rank	July Rank	Domain	June Visitors	July Visitors
1	1	Business.com	4,720,149	5,829,592
2	2	DMOZ.org	1,358,926	1,324,690
3	3	Chiff.com	627,154	490,601
4	4	Joeant.com	264,487	302,678
5	5	Ezilon.com	101,037	115,185

July 2008 Blog Search Market Share by Visitors per Compete
June Rank	July Rank	Domain	June Visitors	July Visitors
1	1	Feedburner.com	3,504,740	3,482,271
2	2	Technorati.com	2,415,023	2,369,961
3	3	Blogcatalog.com	765,307	756,705
4	4	Bloglines.com	521,472	533,998

Compete’s data differs from the numbers reported by Quantcast. Hence, the rankings by Quantcast differ from the rankings by Compete. These Compete numbers don’t necessarily match Compete’s official search market share estimate.

Something you can do with Compete’s data is look at the Visitors through four breakdowns: People Counts (total number of unique visitors), Rank (based on internal criteria), Reach (an estimate of what percentage of the Internet population can visit the site), and unique visits. The numbers I used above are the default People Counts that Compete offers when you first perform a query.

Compete also offers several options under Engagement: Daily Attention, Monthly Attention, Average Stay, Page Views, Pages per Visit, and Visits per Person.