Tag archive: traffic

According to a new report from comScore, non-computer U.S. traffic has increased to nearly seven percent over August 2011. This type of traffic is mostly attributed to smartphones as well as tablets and other handheld devices. It does not include desktop computers or personal notebooks. Smartphones made up about 64 percent of non-computer U.S. traffic and tablets made up about 28 percent of that segment. Apple iOS devices dominated both… Read More

Yesterday a report from Experian Hitwise said that one month after its beta testing round had began, Google+ was taking a traffic hit. According to the firm’s research, visits to the site as well as user engagement were falling off. The news came hot on the heels of massive criticism and media dialogue about Google+’s username policy, which requires that registrants use their legal names and bars anonymous handles from the site. That coupled… Read More

Experian Hitwise released a report today that supports a slowdown in usage of the Google+ social network. According to the analytics firm, total Google+ visits fell by three percent during the week of July 23. The week prior (July 16) saw a traffic increase of 283 percent over the previous week at about 1.86 million visits. User engagement also dropped as Google+ members spent 10% less time on the site. Specifically, users spent about 5… Read More

Networking giant Cisco has released its fifth annual Visual Networking Index Forecast, and predicts that by the year 2015 there will be more than 15 billion devices connected to the global Internet—that's more than double the planet's human population. What's more, Cisco also forecasts that the total amount of Internet traffic carried by the Internet in a year will quadruple by 2015, totaling up to 966 exabytes. A… Read More

GPS maker TomTom has announced it is making its HD Traffic service available on all TomTom Live GPS systems available in the United States—rather than just on the Go 2535 Live model—and dropping the annual subscription price for Live services from $119.95 to $59.95 per year. In effect, that means the HD Traffic service is now available for the Go 740 Live and the XL 340 Live, and presumably for any future Live models the company… Read More

As life on the streets of central London slowly returns to some semblance of normality following yesterday's royal wedding, a picture is starting to emerge of the kind of impact the day's events had on web traffic. The UK's BBC website, which can usually handle masses of visitors with both hands tied behind its back, found itself crumbling under the enormous weight of extra traffic to its site. Web pages took longer than usual… Read More

People may think Mark Zuckerberg is weird, but nobody thinks he's stupid. ComScore has released data that shows just how monumental Facebook's growth has been in the past year. According to Mashable, unique visitors to the site hit 151.1 million in October 2010, up 55.2 percent from a year ago when it posted 97.4 visitors. A year ago, Facebook had only 300 million active users around the world, now it has more than 550 million. This… Read More

When offered the choice between looking for information on the Web, or looking at pictures of friends, pasting song lyrics into status messages and raising virtual produce, most people apparently choose the latter. So we can deduce from the latest Web statistics, which show Facebook officially outpacing Google as the most popular Web site in the United States this week. The global analytics firm Hitwise announced on Monday that Facebook edged… Read More

Following in Garmin’s footsteps with the concept of free traffic updates for even budget GPS devices, Navigon on Wednesday released a new $239 GPS unit that will offer each and every buyer free lifetime traffic updates. The 3.5-inch Navigon 2200T will be the company’s first entry-level unit to offer the service, falling in line with the high-end 7200T it launched last week. The 2200T picks up live traffic data to show… Read More

With companies pushing everything from tech support to games toward subscription-based models that will rake in constant cash for them, it’s rare to see a company actually head the other direction and give up that cash flow. But Garmin did it Wednesday with its latest line of Nuvi GPSes, which come standard with a free lifetime use of to Navteq Traffic – formerly a subscription feature. The Nuvi 2×5 and 7×5 series… Read More

If you’ve ever had a GPS unit or online mapping service tell you that an appointment was 20 minutes away by car, only to show up late for it after a 40-minute drive, Navteq’s latest update to its traffic data may help you plan ahead with a little more accuracy. The company, which provides map data to everyone from Google and Yahoo to Garmin, released Traffic Patterns North America v3.0 on Monday, which significantly refines the… Read More

San Francisco-area resident John Hart has filed a lawsuit against cable operator Comcast, alleging the company's so-called traffic management efforts which involve blocking (or, in Comcast's statements "delaying") peer-to-peer file sharing applications constitutes breach of contact and California's Consumer Legal Remedies act. Hart is seeking class action status for the lawsuit, an injunction barring Comcast from… Read More

Media analysis firm comScore has released its Web site traffic figures for August 2007, and finds that, in terms of U.S. consumers, sites run by Yahoo, Google, Time Warner (e.g. AOL), and Microsoft occupied the top four positions during the month, scoring the largest numbers of unique visitors. Although comScore's rankings for August don't reflect any changes from previous months, the company noted several seasonal variations… Read More

Internet behemoth Google has taken the wraps off a new service for mobile phones which puts real-time traffic information and travel time estimates in the palms of users hands while they're en-route, in traffic, or anywhere they might use their cell phone. The service might not avert an intergalactic disaster, but it might help some users get to their destinations on time. The new addition to Google Maps for Mobile enables users in… Read More

Three new Magellan Roadmate portable GPS navigation devices are coming to market