Stewart Baker notes that, commensurate with VeriSign's dramatic increase in rank, msn.com has fallen somewhat. At present, its drop can be seen in reach and in page views per user—confirming intuition that a large part of VeriSign's new traffic comes at the expense of error message that would otherwise have been shown to Internet Explorer users via the designated pagse at MSN.
See Alexa analysis as to msn.com—drop in page views per user from 10.9 (1 week average) to 10.4 ("today") and drop in reach from 236,450 to 230,000.
Stewart Baker notes that, commensurate with VeriSign's dramatic increase in rank, msn.com has fallen somewhat. At present, its drop can be seen in reach and in page views per user—confirming intuition that a large part of VeriSign's new traffic comes at the expense of error message that would otherwise have been shown to Internet Explorer users via the designated pagse at MSN.
See Alexa analysis as to msn.com—drop in page views per user from 10.9 (1 week average) to 10.4 ("today") and drop in reach from 236,450 to 230,000.
Newest Nielsen Net Ratings number for this week:
http://www.nielsen-netratings.com/news.jsp?section=dat_to&country=us
Verisign has yet to pierce the top 10.