Saturday, March 28, 2009

Hitwise Releases Online Performance Awards

24th March 2009

Online research company Hitwise has released the winners of its Online Performance Awards, revealing the most popular Australian websites of 2008.

Across numerous subdivisions within categories including automotive, business and finance, lifestyle, news and media, and sport, Hitwise names the most visited site based the internet usage of approximately 3 million Australians visiting over 140,000 websites.

Following on from the awards last year, new entrants to Australia’s most popular sites include Webjet, which was top of the “Agencies” division within travel, while Toyota was most popular site among “Manufacturers” in automotive. Another new entrant was Fox Sports which had the most viewed site of “Networks and Channels” site within the TV category.

The most popular site for bands and artists was thewiggles.com, while in the food and beverages category coles.com.au topped “Brands and Manufacturers” and taste.com.au was most viewed in “lifestyle and reference”.

The Awards were held at Dalton House in Sydney today. (Credit: B&T)

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