HitWise must use a sample entirely different from the ones employed by comScore and NetRatings. For the week ending April 14, 2007, the online website measurement service showed Yahoo! Finance with a huge lead over its rivals.
Hitwise rates the financial sites by marketshare and not unique visitors.
Yahoo! Finance 29% share
IRS 16.2% share
MSN Money 11% share
CNN Money 3.8% share
MarketWatch 3.4% share
Reuters 2.2% share
Motley Fool 1.7% share
Bankrate 1.6% share
AOL Money 1.4% share
Forbes.com 1.4% share
CNBC 1.4% share
Bloomberg 1.3% share
WSJ.com 1.1% share
Source: Hitwise
Douglas A. McIntrye
