eBay Hong Kong has experienced a market share increase of 115% in the Shopping & Classifieds - Auctions industry in the past 15 months. Hitwise Hong Kong reported that the website's market share at the end of March 2006 was 3.36%, compared with the most recent data which reports that www.ebay.com.hk's market share as of May 2007 is 7.23%.
At its highest point between January and March 2007, eBay Hong Kong reached 8.77% of the Shopping & Classifieds - Auctions industry's market share. During that period, the top three websites being visited by Hong Kong Internet users before and after www.ebay.com.hk were eBay (www.ebay.com), Yahoo! Auctions Hong Kong (hk.auctions.yahoo.com) and Yahoo! Hong Kong Search (search.hk.yahoo.com).
The current data shows that this trend is continuing, with the exception of SendSpace (www.sendspace.com) climbing up to become the fifth most-visited website before eBay Hong Kong for the week ending 02/06/2007.
The Apple iPhone website (www.apple.com/iphone), which features details of the soon to be released all-in-one device, experienced an increase in market share of 260% in the last week, according to the data for the week ending 09/06/07.
This category includes C-rated sites that are intended to be used by children. The data below is based on All sites » Weekly rankings for the week ending 23/06/2007 » Ranks by 'Visits'.
Lifestyle - Childrens sites » All sites » Weekly rankings for the week ending 23/06/2007
of traffic to this category was directed at domestic sites.
Top 10 Upstream Industries
1.
Computers and Internet
46.94%
2.
Entertainment
25.83%
3.
Games
14.52%
4.
Net Communities and Chat
13.00%
5.
Portal Frontpages
12.91%
6.
Lifestyle
12.07%
7.
Education
8.52%
8.
Search Engines
8.51%
9.
Childrens sites
8.07%
10.
Reference
5.63%
Top 10 Downstream Industries
1.
Computers and Internet
49.89%
2.
Entertainment
23.55%
3.
Net Communities and Chat
15.15%
4.
Portal Frontpages
13.66%
5.
Lifestyle
12.33%
6.
Games
11.66%
7.
Childrens sites
7.70%
8.
Search Engines
6.25%
9.
Software
5.47%
10.
Education
5.42%
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