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Report: More Than a Third of Yahoo’s Traffic is From Yahoo Mail
The Inquisitr » Technology —
... was “becoming increasing critical to the company,” Hitwise compared data from the various Yahoo properties to see just how big a slice of the overall pie Yahoo Mail really took. The data shows Yahoo Mail receiving well over a third of Yahoo’s overall traffic, at 36.71 percent. The Yahoo home page comes in next with 25.48 percent, and the direct Yahoo Search page follows with 11.75. ...
Data: Mail is Yahoo's most-trafficked property, Web leader
Between the Lines —
... earlier in the week - Yahoo Mail is becoming increasingly critical to the company. Struck by the comment, Heather Hopkins, a senior online analyst from Hitwise, dug up some numbers on Yahoo’s Mail traffic and analyzed it against traffic for other Yahoo sites, as well as the growth of competing Web mail services from Microsoft and Google. What she found was that Yahoo Mail is the company’s most-trafficked property, receiving more than one-third (36.71 percent) of visits in February. The next two most popular domains are the main Yahoo portal page (www.yahoo.com) and Yahoo ...
Report: Mail Acts As Yahoo's Main Attraction
WebProNews Feed —
... Hitwise's Heather Hopkins reports, "Yahoo!'s mail property is its most trafficked property, receiving more than a third (36.71%) of visits to a custom category of 80 leading Yahoo! properties in February. The next two most popular domains are the portal front page, www.yahoo.com, and Yahoo! Search." ...
Yahoo Mail Is One Third Of Yahoo's Traffic
Silicon Alley Insider —
... How important is Yahoo's email service? Extremely. It's the biggest property Yahoo (YHOO) has, as illustrated by this Hitwise graph. Yahoo Mail receives 36.7% of the visits to 80 top Yahoo properties. The homepage is 25.5% and Yahoo Search is 11.8%. ...
Zimbra reaches milestone, reinforces Yahoo's Mail business
Between the Lines —
... in Yahoo’s network of sites - could help bring the company out of its mess. Data from Hitwise puts Yahoo as the pack-leader for Web-based mail, with 56.46 percent of market share, well above the 19.14 percent of No. 2 Microsoft and 10.82 percent of No. 3 Google. ...
Gmail makes it easy to switch mail accounts: Will it matter?
Between the Lines —
... The two email services are different animals and I have two accounts. I could consolidate accounts, but why? If I move all my Yahoo Mail over to Gmail I get a zillion conversations. Woo hoo. And why would I want all my email on one provider—Google—that appears to be sucking wind at this very moment? Let’s face it Gmail has a lot of inertia to overcome. And Yahoo Mail isn’t exactly standing still. Google has to make switching to Gmail easier if it has any hope of closing this gap. According to Hitwise , Yahoo Mail held more than 56 of the U.S. webmail market. MSN’s email ...
The Costs of SSL Encryption for Webmail & Other Cloud Services
Technology Liberation Front —
... But this is by no means a dismissal of the importance of costs. Rather, Google is simply saying that it has already decided that the advantage of providing persistent SSL are worth the costs. Every advantage to users in terms of greater security is, of course, also an advantage to Google as it competes for customers. While Gmail may have the highest profile among webmail companies, it still lags far behind Yahoo! Mail and Microsoft’s Hotmail in market share: As of February, Yahoo!’s market share was 56%, Microsoft’s 19% and ...
