Boxing Day sales are likely to get off to a strong start if new data released this week is anything to go by.

UK retailers should expect over 95m visits to their online stores on Boxing Day in the UK from people hunting out the best sale deals,...

That bar at the top of your browser, yep the one with the url of this website in it. How often do you actually type an address in there? Seems the majority of Internet users don't bother at all instead preferring to enter website names into Google.

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2010 has been a good year for Facebook. That's according to the Hitwise figures released showing that it's had more online visitors than Google, at least in the USA.

The stats say that Facebook.com accounted for 8.93 per cent of all US internet...

Amazon has held its position as the UK's biggest online retailer in the fourth annual IMRG/Hitwise Hot Shops list - a position it has held since the list's inception.

In fact, the top three remain unchanged with Argos in second place and Play...

Hitwise has published a ream of statistics on UK internet usage, and it's grim reading for Bebo and MySpace, but good news for Club Penguin and Facebook.

Both MySpace and Bebo have slipped considerably in terms of traffic from a peak in mid...

Is it possible to beat Google at the traffic game? For many years, the search giant has been at the top of the charts, but if reports coming in from Hitwise are correct, we may have a new king of the castle, and associated dirty rascal.

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The top five most-searched for products in the run up to Christmas are familiar faces, suggesting more of the same under Christmas trees across the country this year. The Apple iPhone, available on Orange as well as O2 this festive period, tops the...

Microsoft should expect it to be an Xbox 360 Christmas this year if search queries for the games console are anything to go by.

Although the launch of the PS3 Slim caused a massive spike of interest according to search analytics firm Hitwise,...

Speculation in the Twitterverse has been rife as to what effect Oprah Winfrey's Twittering would have on the micro-blogging service's popularity, and now Hitwise has stepped in with some stats.

Twitter hardliners had been moaning that the...

Hitwise has announced that the market share of visits to Twitter surpassed Digg for the first time since launch.

In the US, the micro-blogging site was ranked number 84 (above Digg at 85) in the "Computers and Internet" category.

The Wii Fit is the must-have gift for Christmas - if internet searches are anything to go by.

According to Hitwise, the internet traffic monitoring service, Nintendo's Wii Fit is currently the most searched-for product by UK internet...

More people are interested in the US presidential race than domestic UK politics if internet searches are to be believed.

According to Hitwise, Barack Obama is the most searched for political figure in the UK ahead of Gordon Brown, David...

Web stats firm Hitwise has revealed that Christmas day was a good 'un online for both Apple and Microsoft.

The huge increases in traffic to the websites for Apple's iTunes and Microsoft's Zune (the PMP range still not officially available...