For July Competition is fierce in the battle for eyeballs on the web. PC Data has released their July rankings for the Top 100 web sites and we find that Apple has done remarkably well. In both cases, Apple is ranked where there is no other computer manufacturer listed. In both cases, Microsoft ranks in the Top 2. We have commentary at the bottom of these two long tables.
Every visitor is counted only once, regardless of how many times the individual visits a site.
The sample currently includes 55,000 home users who are not using the proprietary AOL browser. PC Data will begin tracking AOL users beginning August 1999. The total universe of non-AOL home Internet users is approximately 50,000,000. There is little doubt that the popularity of QuickTIme on both sides of the platform wars has much to do with this. People curious about the iMac also contribute.