The total German Internet audience grew 11 percent versus the previous year to 37.6 million visitors in January 2009. Amongst the fastest growing site categories were multimedia (up 36 percent to 23.8 million visitors), social networking (up 36 percent to 23.6 million visitors), entertainment (up 30 percent to 29.2 million visitors), and instant messengers (up 25 percent to 19.4 million visitors). Social networking sites, Yasni.de and Facebook.com were Germany’s fastest gaining properties during the period, followed by avatar-based social-gaming site, Pennergame.de.
Elsewhere, there were gains for the weather, shipping, news/information and gambling categories, while continued traction for the Firefox Web browser helped the Mozilla Organisation grow 72 percent to 7.2 million visitors over the same period.
source: ComScore
Elsewhere, there were gains for the weather, shipping, news/information and gambling categories, while continued traction for the Firefox Web browser helped the Mozilla Organisation grow 72 percent to 7.2 million visitors over the same period.
source: ComScore
