apartments.com Enters Hitwise Top 10

Hitwise has released its July figures for real estate websites in the US and the results show some movement in the top 10.

The top four remains unchanged with realtor.com, realestate.yahoo.com, zillow.com and ziprealty taking charge.

Last month trulia.com jumped to its all time high of 5th place. This month the property search engine landed back at 6th place, with rent.com back at number 5.

servicemagic.com rose from 11th place to 7th place, with homes.com coming in 8th, up two places on last month. remax.com dropped two places to end up 9th, while apartments.com entered the top 10 in 10th place, a rise of three places on last month’s rankings.

apartmentguide.com entered the top 20 in 16th place and forrent.com in 18th place.

29.36% of all visits to the online ‘Business and Finance – Real Estate’ industry went to the top 10 websites for the month of July, 2009. 40.38% went to the top 20 websites and 68.70% went to the top 100 websites. The average visit duration for visits to the online ‘Business and Finance – Real Estate’ industry was 10 minutes, 56 seconds for the month of July, 2009. This is a minimal decrease from last months average visit duration of 12 minutes, 5 seconds.

The top ten websites in terms of visits were:

1. realtor.com
2. realestate.yahoo.com
3. zillow.com
4. ziprealty.com
5. rent.com
6. trulia.com
7. servicemagic.com
8. homes.com
9. remax.com
10. apartments.com

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