Cliff Peskin
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May 21, 2010
Experian Hitwise tracks what people are doing on the internet. Wikipedia describes the company as a global online competitive intelligence service which collects data directly from ISP networks to aid website managers in analyzing trends in visitor behavior and to measure website market share.
The following report from Hitwise lists the most visited real estate websites in Canada for the second week of May 2010. The stats are a little surprising but considering Hitwise was acquired in 2007 for $240m and these sorts of analytics are their specialty, the list is worth noting.
THE LIST:
12. GeoWarehouse 1.40% Competition Bureau should set their sites on this company and their monopoly on what should be public data – in my opinion
19. ZipRealty 0.97 Don’t know how this made it into the Canada list – must be Canadians searching US properties