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NetRatings Adds New Australian Categories
Nielsen//NetRatings has extended its Market Intelligence monitor to cover Australian web sites in two new categories, 'Business and Finance' and Sport; and has released the first results from the service.
During January, 4 million Australians visited the audited sites in the category, viewing a total of 51m pages. Visits are typically made on a weekly basis: the average number of times a unique browser visited a site during the month was 4.02.
Nielsen//NetRatings Market Intelligence Business and Finance
Domestic traffic to audited business and finance websites - January 2005 |
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Site |
Publisher |
Unique Browsers1 |
Page
Impressions2 |
Frequency
of Visits3 |
commbank.com.au |
Commonwealth Bank |
1,906,537 |
14,722,807 |
3.64 |
anz.com |
ANZ |
1,065,945 |
7,620,325 |
3.14 |
asx.com.au |
Fairfax Digital |
435,519 |
11,103,705 |
4.29 |
suncorp.com.au |
Suncorp |
266,677 |
1,818,011 |
3.43 |
smh.com.au/business |
Fairfax Digital |
247,881 |
1,472,852 |
2.75 |
Subcategories are banking, financial news and information, insurance and online trading. The majority of the category's traffic was allocated to the banking subgroup, with 2.9m unique browsers. Just under 1.2m viewed financial news and information sites, 560,000 insurance sites and 480,000 online trading.
Average session durations are just over 7 minutes for online trading sites, more than 5 minutes for financial news and information, 2.2 minutes for insurance sites and 1.4 minutes for banking sites.
Nielsen//NetRatings Market Intelligence Business and Finance
Domestic traffic to audited (subcategory) financial news and information sites - January 2005 |
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Site |
Publisher |
Unique Browsers1 |
Page
Impressions2 |
Frequency
of Visits3 |
asx.com.au |
Fairfax Digital |
435,519 |
11,103,705 |
4.29 |
smh.com.au/business |
Fairfax Digital |
247,881 |
1,472,852 |
2.75 |
theage.com.au/business |
Fairfax Digital |
167,417 |
927,157 |
2.5 |
finance.news.com.au |
News Interactive |
149,546 |
1,075,939 |
2.41 |
afr.com.au |
Fairfax Digital |
127,739 |
2,064,955 |
3.52 |
The Sport category was also new for January, opportune as the month saw the Australian Open tennis championships and the one day cricket season in full flow. More than 1.9m unique Australian browsers visited audited sports sites, viewing just over 45m pages.
ninemsn's baggygreen.com.au held the top position in the category with just over 577,000 unique browsers, reflecting strong support for the Tsunami appeal cricket match as well as the country general passion for cricket.
There was a strong growth in traffic to sports news sites in the final two weeks of January, corresponding with the Australian Open. foxsports.news.com.au grew its audience from 133,000 unique browsers in the week commencing 10 January to a weekly average of 149,000 unique browsers across the 2 weeks of the tennis matches.
Nielsen//NetRatings Market Intelligence
Domestic traffic to Audited Sport Websites - January 2005 |
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Site |
Publisher |
Unique Browsers1 |
Page
Impressions2 |
Frequency
of Visits3 |
baggygreen.com.au |
Ninemsn |
577,181 |
11,103,705 |
3.56 |
foxsports.news.com.au |
News Interactive |
397,776 |
15,003,979 |
3.99 |
smh.com.au/sport |
Fairfax Digital |
324,320 |
2,686,548 |
3.53 |
theage.com.au/sport |
Fairfax Digital |
221,758 |
1,572,455 |
2.99 |
afl.com.au |
AFL Telstra |
208,090 |
1,991,364 |
3.37 |
There are now eleven categories covered by Market Intelligence. The company is online at www.nielsen-netratings.com.au

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