Wtf?

The Hill Billy

There's gotta be something wrong here...

Daft.ie is most popular website in Ireland
Unison.ie - 08:54 Thursday November 23rd 2006

Property website Daft.ie is the busiest in the country, according to the latest information available.
An independent audit, carried out by ABC Electronic found that Daft.ie received requests for nearly 39 million pages of information in September.

This is an increase of 40% in the last three months alone.

Eircom recorded the second highest figures, with RTE's website coming in third.

I can possibly understand eircom getting in the top 3 with eircom.net set as the default hompage by eircom broadband users, but the other 2? Surely not? Anyone know where boards.ie came in this?

petes

Hill Billy wrote:

There's gotta be something wrong here...



I can possibly understand eircom getting in the top 3 with eircom.net set as the default hompage by eircom broadband users, but the other 2? Surely not? Anyone know where boards.ie came in this?

Why? People have to live somewhere.

fade2black

Yes but they don't have to log on to daft.ie to live somewhere. And I don't think that some of the country's most frequent broadband users, the teenagers, are furiously logging on to daft.ie.

shane86

Finding a place to rent is a tough business, so there would be alot of repeat visitors. Anyway, September, you would have loads of students from the country looking for flats, new immigrants etc.,

r3nu4l

Yep, everyone I knew in College used Daft.ie for finding accommodation. It doesn't just cover Dublin anymore either and it's not all rental anymore.

Don't know where boards came but I can imagine it was close to the top.

MikeHoncho

Daft.ie is not an entertainment site so you cant look at it that way. Its a functional website. Loads of people out there are looking for houses, renting houses and letting houses. Sure arent we told every day about the property market here - blah ... blah... property ... blah ... speculation..blah... popes children...blah.

Also think of the structure of the site. If you were looking for a house you would probably look at alot of houses to find the right one. Therefore Daft's page views are big because the average reader looks at more of pages per session than the average site.

Fajitas!

I'm a student and log onto daft daily looking for new accomodation. A lot of other students do too.

ScumLord

Unison host allot of local newspapers like the Tuam hearld and sure that's one of the most popular newspapers in the world.

Gary ITR

When I was looking for somewhere to live i wasn't off daft for a solid 6 weeksh

racso1975

Tuam hearld and sure that's one of the most popular newspapers in the world.

Bustin myself laughin.......thx scumlord

jaggeh

alexa has boards ranked around 6000 in the world for traffic today.

the irish ranking section of alexa isnt responding.

Wishbone Ash

ScumLord wrote:

the Tuam hearld and sure that's one of the most popular newspapers in the world.

LOL :D. I have visions of people all over the world who wish to read the international Times Herald, googling 'T Herald' for short and coming up with Tuam's finest.

jaggeh

finally got into it

alexa rankings wrote:

1.
Google.ie


google.ie - Site info

2.
Google

Enables users to search the Web, Usenet, and images. Features include PageRank, caching and translation of results, and an option to find similar pages. The company's focus is developing search technology.

google.com - Site info

3.
Yahoo!

Personalized content and search options. Chatrooms, free e-mail, clubs, and pager.

yahoo.com - Site info

4. Microsoft Network (MSN)

Dialup access and content provider.

msn.com - Site info

5. Bebo.com

Bebo, the next generation high school and college social network (like MySpace and Facebook), makes it easy for high school and college students to stay in touch with their friends, find long lost friends, and meet new people. Helpful and fun applications make it easy to remember birthdays, share photos, write blogs, read a friend’s blog, discover new interests, and just hang out. Bebo connects your brand with influencers and their circle of friends--you’ll reach a highly engaged audience w

bebo.com - Site info

6. YouTube

YouTube is a way to get your videos to the people who matter to you. Upload, tag and share your videos worldwide!

youtube.com - Site info

7. BBC Newsline Ticker

Headline ticker will automatically update throughout the day with the latest news, sport, travel, finance and weather from the BBC. Available for multiple OS platforms.

bbc.co.uk - Site info

8. Wikipedia

A free encyclopedia built collaboratively using Wiki software. (GNU Free Documentation License).

wikipedia.org - Site info

9. Blogger.com

Free, automated weblog publishing tool that sends updates to a site via FTP.

blogger.com - Site info

10. Google UK

The local version of this pre-eminent search engine, offering UK-specific pages as well as world results.

google.co.uk - Site info

11. EBay Ireland

Online marketplace where Irish people can buy and sell new and used items from thousands of categories.

ebay.ie - Site info

12. Amazon.com

Amazon.com, a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, opened its virtual doors on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth's Biggest Selection. Amazon.com seeks to be Earth's most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices. Amazon.com and sellers list millions of unique new and used items in categories such as apparel and accessories, electronics, computers, kitchenware and housewares, books, music, DVDs, videos, cameras and photo items, toys, baby items and baby registry, software, computer and video games, cell phones and service, tools and hardware, travel services, magazine subscriptions and outdoor living items. Site has numerous personalization features and services including one-click buying, extensive customer and editorial product reviews, gift registries, gift certificates, wish lists, restaurant and movie listings, travel, and photo processing.

amazon.com - Site info

13. Daft.ie

Searchable lists of property sales and lettings, roommates and potential tennants.

daft.ie - Site info

14. Windows Live

由微软MSN推出的提供网页、图片搜索服务。

live.com - Site info

15. Eircom net

Subscription-free, local rate access with unlimited e-mail addresses and 20 MB webspace

eircom.net - Site info

16. EBay

International person to person auction site, with products sorted into categories.

ebay.com - Site info

17. Boards.ie

Popular Irish bulletin board site, offering web hosting, chat rooms, and news group access.

boards.ie - Site info

emeraldstar

Wishbone Ash wrote:

LOL :D. I have visions of people all over the world who wish to read the international Times Hearld, googling 'T Hearld' for short and coming up with Tuam's finest.

....or T Herald might get you more results

Wishbone Ash

emeraldstar wrote:

....or T Herald might get you more results

:eek: Shame on me Post edited Thanks.

emeraldstar

hehe. my surname is fitzgerald and it's unbelievable the amount of people that spell it fitzgearld, so it's something that I notice a lot and it annoys me a little. LoL

kevmy

MikeHoncho wrote:

Daft.ie is not an entertainment site so you cant look at it that way.

Of course it is an entertainment site it's like porn for the over 30's