Facebook, by a mile, followed by Live.com, Yahoo.com and Wikipedia. Those have been calculated as the top websites in Ireland for December 2009 in terms of unique visitors.
Barry Hand carried out the calculation using the Google Ad Planner to access data on thousands of websites, relating to billions of page views. In his blog, he discusses the findings, including the fact that Ad Planner is intended to plan display advertising campaigns, rather than track traffic.
So Google.ie is excluded from the results since it is not available for display advertising . He also points out that the high placings for sites like Live.com and Yahoo.com probably reflect the groups of services that they provide and “probably not” people accessing the sites directly.
The top 10 listed are:
- Facebook.com
- Live.com
- Yahoo.com
- Wikipedia.org
- MSN.com
- RTE.ie
- Bebo.com
- Microsoft.com
- BBC.co.uk
- Ask.com
In addtion to the analysis on his blog, Barry Hand has made the full dataset available in Google Tables.
