Online traffic analysts Compete have published a ranking of the top 50 websites by traffic for the month of September.
The list, which ranks sites by unique visitors, shows that Bing, Microsoft’s search engine garnered 11% more traffic month-on-month and grew 108% from the same period last year. This is also the first time that Bing has entered the top 10 most visited sites on the web.
Bing, already powering Yahoo’s search, is now also serving online advertising for the web portal. So far, Yahoo is serving ads by Microsoft’s adCentre only in the US and Canada, but this is expected to expand to other countries in the future.
Google is still gets the most web traffic, according to Compete, despite having dropped 1%. It is followed by Yahoo and Facebook.
Other winners and losers include Ask.com, which grew 75% year-on-year, while flagging social media site MySpace continued its decline, losing 19% compared to September last year.
Network security firm Arbor Networks offers slightly conflicting data, saying that Google has gained more than 1% of internet traffic since January, meaning that the search engine and its associated sites now account for 6.4% of all internet traffic.
