London, UK, February 28, 2007 – comScore Networks, a leader in measuring the digital age, today revealed the top French Internet properties and the top gaining properties during January, based on data collected through its comScore World Metrix audience ratings service.  Notable findings include:

·          Google Sites, Microsoft Sites and France Telecom retained their rankings as the top three properties among French Internet users, with 17.1, 16.0 and 13.7 million French visitors, respectively.

·          Benchmark Group and Wikipedia Sites bumped Groupe Aprovia and Orbus Groupe out of the top ten French sites, capturing the 9^th and 10^th rankings, respectively in January.  Benchmark Group grew 22 percent to 8.1 million visitors, and Wikipedia Sites grew 13 percent to 8.1 million visitors.

·          As the French shifted their online focus from gifting to greetings in January, the 22-percent increase to Benchmark Group was driven largely by traffic to linternaute.com, a provider of e-cards, among other things.   Additionally, e-card site Dromadaire increased 38 percent to 2.4 million visitors.

·          New Year’s resolutions generated a renewed focus on new career aspirations, as visitation to Monster Worldwide increased 35 percent to 1.9 million French visitors and visitation to ANPE Sites increased 26 percent to 2.6 million visitors.

·          In January, the French followed the warmer-than-average weather conditions, driving a 47-percent increase to MeteoFrance.com, which reached 3.4 million unique visitors.   

·          CNAF, a government Web site involving state support for family and housing, was the second-biggest gaining site in January, increasing 42 percent to 2 million visitors.

* Excludes traffic from public computers such as Internet cafes or access from mobile phones or PDAs.

*Ranking based on the top 100 French properties in January 2007.

** Excludes traffic from public computers such as Internet cafes or access from mobile phones or PDAs.

About comScore World Metrix

comScore World Metrix is the first service to continuously measure and report online behaviour on a world-wide basis, providing visitation metrics and demographic characteristics for Web site audiences around the world.  With active representation of countries that comprise the vast majority of the global Internet population, World Metrix provides its clients with worldwide Internet population estimates and harmonized online performance metrics based on a consistent methodology across all countries.  More than 100 clients subscribe to comScore’s World Metrix service, including 8 of the top 10 interactive advertising agencies.

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