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Apple blows past other hardware web sites in May

Wow. It isn't even close. Apple blew by HP, Dell and even MagicJack (!) with the most visits to a website in May. According to the people who compile such statistics at Nielsen, Apple drew 55.7 million unique viewers, more than double what next ranked HP did. Much of that may have been driven by anticipation of the new iPhone. Here's the chart.



Also interesting is that Nielsen computes the average visitor stayed on the Apple site an average of 1 hour and 14 minutes. That's a lot of reading and watching demo videos.

Nielsen also took a look at blog mentions of the iPhone in early June, and the numbers are pretty striking there too. You can see the peak as the release date approached, with another peak on release day June 19.



They say if people are talking about you it's a good thing. By that measure things are really great at Apple.



Wow. It isn't even close. Apple blew by HP, Dell and even MagicJack (!) with the most visits to a website in May. According to the people...
 

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Caleb

"Lightsthe average visitor stayed on the Apple site an average of 1 hour and 14 minutes."This is a skewed calculation. Each computer and iPhone in every apple store location is tuned to the Apple website nearly 24/7. This would throw off these calculations. Granted it's a large number of unique visitors, but 24/7 makes a dent.

August 20 2009 at 9:50 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Brent

Or maybe they spent an hour and 14 minutes poring over support docs to fix things that break/don't work. Lord knows I've had to...

July 01 2009 at 7:24 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
john

hardware and software combined ....oh that is why you guys have boot camp....I should pay more for the same hardware minus the proprietary nature so I can run microsoft programs ....And I forgot that old argument about the intel motherboards and the power PC motorola chip set....and who copied who who came over to the dark side....yes that would be apple leaving for the intel side of things....please stop drinking the kool aid ....admit it it is childish I am better than you ...let me give you this number 94% PC and 6% apple is that a good number....very childish ...and meaningless ....saturday we had a scavenger hunt which required taking pictures to prove what you had found ...guess which phone died first ....ya you guessed it and did I ahve an option to carry and extra battery...why of course not...it is buried .....you have to go to happy store to get it replaced .....and pay ...nad pay and pay ...while PC people get service paks for free guess what you get to get a new four legged animal upgrade with a price tag....stop with the childish competition buy what you want and be happy with it some people will pick their own kool aid

June 30 2009 at 6:26 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
john

apple has one phone...HTC,acer, asus,samsung etc are coming with several feature packed phones ...anyone truly using SAFARI....and in case youhaven't noticed apple market share in computing market..is dropping and the turn around is no wehere in sight....and if you listen to ATT the new phone did well,but with Iphone people upgrading not many new converts or new sign ups....you guys have a shrinking market and buyer base....so if you don't know what PC is you truly are blind..and if you think I am anti Apple ....acer is about to pass DELL for number 2 ....sound familiar.....ask ford about that precious number 2 slot.....wake up apple people ...you are fighting the wrong war and going nowhere....ask pepsi what that is like

June 30 2009 at 6:07 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Doug

Wow!

The "Apple is dying" meme! Where have you been?

I thought you had died! ...Or slunk away in embarassment.

June 30 2009 at 6:39 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
michael

apple's traffic exceeds everyone else's (on the list) COMBINED

June 30 2009 at 5:13 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Luna Lovegood

Surely this stat includes discussions.apple.com. There's your pageviews and "unique audience."

June 30 2009 at 4:35 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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matt

Good point Luna. That's still a sh*t ton of page views.

And on another point when did this become the unoffical apple commetors blog. Geez people most of the comments I read on this site hate on apple and tuaw.

June 30 2009 at 5:12 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
starq

@ bob

In less time that it took to ask, "what the fuck is magicjack!?!>!!>!?", you could have googled it and found out.

June 30 2009 at 3:49 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
bob

what the fuck is magicjack!?!>!!>!?

June 30 2009 at 3:37 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Macopotamus

A USB VoIP adapter and phone service, I think. I'm not sure why it's on there.

June 30 2009 at 3:48 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Macopotamus

I have to agree with trontron.

Apple will have large numbers of hits for cell phones (iPhone 3GS) and software (Snow Leopard), so a comparison with only hardware vendors doesn't tell us very much. What are the figures for Palm, RIM, HTC? Microsoft in general.

June 30 2009 at 3:29 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Macopotamus

I'll partially answer that question myself:

Microsoft - 98,227,000

(Source: http://www.nielsen-online.com/pr/pr_090616.pdf)

Of course, from this data, it would still be equally inaccurate to say "Microsoft blows past other operating system web sites in May".

June 30 2009 at 3:42 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
john

congratulations to apple for winning another useless statistic..claiming people are looking for hardware ....apps and Itunes not included right


...you know this thing with apple and PC is childish and if either is not careful they are going to get run over ...by foreign competitors ...lets say ford and chevy ...for an example or RCA ...GE ...grow up boys and there fans the competition is knocking and they are coming fully armed and loaded ...

June 30 2009 at 3:18 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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