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Facebook ekes past MySpace in monthly traffic
MySpace is now no longer number one when it comes to social networking dominance, with Facebook slipping by them to take a slim lead, globally, for the number of visitors last month. Facebook netted around 123.9 million unique visits across a total of 50.6 billion pages views, coming above MySpace at 114.6 million unique visits and 45.4 billion page views.
That's a narrow margin, but a significant one. MySpace is slightly older than Facebook and had an easier time opening up to the public. MySpace was also purchased by News Corp in 2005, giving them a huge backing, but despite that Facebook has still managed to grow significantly in the past few years. Most of that growth is coming from outside the U.S., which goes to show that Facebook's method of “translating” sites as opposed to MySpace's method of “localizing” sites is effective.
Facebook's growth is cited as being “steady”, not terribly fast, so it seems likely they will continue to grow in popularity with little difficulty.
That's a narrow margin, but a significant one. MySpace is slightly older than Facebook and had an easier time opening up to the public. MySpace was also purchased by News Corp in 2005, giving them a huge backing, but despite that Facebook has still managed to grow significantly in the past few years. Most of that growth is coming from outside the U.S., which goes to show that Facebook's method of “translating” sites as opposed to MySpace's method of “localizing” sites is effective.
Facebook's growth is cited as being “steady”, not terribly fast, so it seems likely they will continue to grow in popularity with little difficulty.
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User Comments (5)
Post a comment| God Of Mana on June 23, 2008 2:08 PM | YaY! Go facebook go!
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| thejedislayer on June 23, 2008 10:00 PM | It's not really surprising to me when I see that MySpace offers worthless features, slow load time because of cluttered web pages, and frankly, a big ass joke when I see what people post these days on it. I think this whole craze about having a profile online is a load of shit these days.
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| Nirkon on June 23, 2008 11:43 PM | I wouldn't call 9.3 billion unique visitors or 5.2 billion page views a narrow margin.
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| nirkon on June 24, 2008 2:55 AM | 9.3 Million*^^
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| windmill007 on June 24, 2008 7:31 AM | Myspace is nice because I find people all the time from high school and such. No such luck with face book. It seems very small compared to face book at least here in my area. It must be other countries like they said.
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