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at 4:20 pm, August 31, 2010
in The Daft Media group of websites has grown to 6 and now includes daft.ie, rent.ie, let.ie, property.ie and community sites boards.ie & adverts.ie.
The two main bodies that measure, verify and report on website traffic are ABC and comScore.
ABC Electronic
Results from our most recent ABC Electronic report (March 2010) show that the combined traffic for Daft Media's sites is 3.65 million unique browsers and over 165 million page impressions. This is the highest number of monthly page impressions delivered by any certified Irish website or group of websites.
Top 10 Certified Irish Websites (ABCe)
| Rank | Site Name | Monthly Unique Browsers | Monthly Page Impressions | Period |
| 1 | Daft Media |
3,654,762 | 165,626,429 |
Mar 2010 |
| 2 | carzone.ie | 719,085 | 100,697,138 | Jan 2010 |
| 3 | RTE | 4,052,723 | 75,607,413 | May 2010 |
| 4 | eircom | 1,033,294 | 37,701,807 | Apr 2007 |
| 5 | Independent Digital | 2,467,379 | 34,479,072 | Jan 2010 |
| 6 | myhome.ie | 339,233 | 26,436,425 | Sep 2006 |
| 7 | irishtimes.ie | 2,314,196 | 26,125,949 | Nov 2009 |
| 8 | autotrader.ie | 248,860 | 13,100,058 | Jan 2010 |
| 9 | weddingsonline.ie | 147,441 | 5,306,029 | Mar 2010 |
| 10 | build.ie | 108,304 | 293,38 | Oct 2009 |
Source: ABCe www.abcireland.ie
Daft Media's comScore stats for July show that our group of sites are in the top 10 most visited by Irish Internet users. This not only accounts for Irish websites visited, but all websites visited globally! We've also a 50% market reach.
Top 10 Websites visited by Irish Internet users (comScore)
| Rank | Company | Total Unique Visitors (000) | % Reach |
| 1 | Google Sites | 1,869 | 95.1 |
| 2 | Microsoft Sites | 1,857 | 94.5 |
| 3 | Facebook.com | 1,428 | 72.7 |
| 4 | Yahoo! Sites | 1,184 | 60.2 |
| 5 | RTE | 1,052 | 53.5 |
| 6 | Daft Media | 993 | 50.5 |
| 7 | CBS Interactive | 990 | 50.4 |
| 8 | BBC Sites | 850 | 43.2 |
| 9 | Glam Media | 799 | 40.7 |
| 10 | Wikimedia Foundation Sites | 730 | 37.2 |
Can't believe that the web traffic of daft.ie is 10 times more than myhome.ie !
The ABC web traffic table did not include audit dates when we initially posted however, we've now updated this now. These dates do show that some websites have not been audited by the ABC in quite some time. The ABC released these figures in June 2010. In addition, the stats are for Daft Media and not just Daft.ie.
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