October 16th, 2005
Top education and reference sites: Wikipedia, Yahoo! Education, eHow
Nielsen//NetRatings notes that between September 2004 and September 2005 the traffic to education and reference Web sites grew 22% on average. However, two sites, which also happen to lead the ratings of education sites, Wikipedia and Yahoo! Education, experienced triple-digit increases in traffic over the past 12 months.
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Education and reference site traffic |
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| Site | Unique audience, 000 | Growth | |
| Sep 2004 | Sep 2005 | YTY | |
| Wikipedia | 3,287 | 12,799 | 289% |
| Yahoo! Education | 1,068 | 3,258 | 205% |
| eHow | 1,049 | 2,069 | 97% |
| CollegeBoard.com | 1,167 | 1,846 | 58% |
| City-Data.com | 1,381 | 2,176 | 58% |
| Thesaurus.com | 1,356 | 2,109 | 56% |
| Teacherweb.com | 638 | 961 | 51% |
| NewsBank | 1,273 | 1,915 | 50% |
| Thomson Learning | 970 | 1,433 | 48% |
| NationMaster.com | 757 | 1,031 | 36% |
| Total | 37,877 | 46,357 | 22% |
| Source: Nielsen//NetRatings | |||
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