MEDIA METRIX RELEASES THE TOP 50 AT HOME AND AT WORK DIGITAL MEDIA AND WEB AUDIENCE RATINGS IN THE U.S. FOR SEPTEMBER 1999
Traffic to Sports, Weather and News Sites up in September
New York, NY, October 20, 1999 -- Media Metrix (NASDAQ: MMXI) today released the Top 50 At Home and At Work combined Digital Media and Web audience ratings in the U.S. for September 1999. Media Metrix also reported a significant increase in unique visitors to top sports, weather and news sites from August to September.
User traffic to the top five weather domains on the Web rose sharply as the hurricane season blew in:
Top Weather Sites, September .99, Percent increase from August to September
| Site |
Aug. Unique Visitors (in 000s) |
Sept. Unique Visitors (in 000s) |
Percent Increase |
| Weather.com |
5,573 |
6,705 |
20.3% |
| Noaa.gov |
1,948 |
2,602 |
33.6% |
| Intellicast.com |
1,707 |
1,899 |
11.2% |
| Wunderground.com |
1,113 |
1,328 |
19.3% |
| Accuweather.com |
965 |
1,170 |
21.2% |
Digital Media: includes users of the World Wide Web, proprietary online services, and/or other ad-supported digital applications such as e-mail services and CD ROM.
Unique Visitors: The actual number of total users who visited the reported Web site or online property at least once in the given month. All Unique Visitors are unduplicated (only counted once) and are in thousands.
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