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ViziSense releases its web rankings for the Top 5 Sites by Category for September 2009


October 12th, 2009 (Mumbai, India) - ViziSense (www.vizisense.com), India's leading online audience measurement and analytics platform, today released its monthly web rankings of the Top 5 Sites by Category. ViziSense's rankings in September for the E-mail Category reveal that Gmail was the most popular e-mail service among Indians, followed closely by Yahoo! Mail and a few other local players.

The popularity of Gmail has been steadily growing month-on-month, as indicated by the increasing number of unique users accessing the site:

Category: E-mail
September 2009
Source: ViziSense
PropertyUnique Users (M)
Gmail*18.2
Yahoo! Mail*16.8
Rediff Mail*6.25
MSN Mail*4.11
In.com Mail0.84
*represents the unduplicated reach of related properties. e.g. Yahoo! Mail* includes users who visit both mail.yahoo.co.in and mail.yahoo.com.
Category: E-mail
August 2009
Source: ViziSense
PropertyUnique Users (M)
Yahoo! Mail*18.2
Gmail*17.7
Rediff Mail*6.73
MSN Mail*3.89
In.com Mail0.82
*represents the unduplicated reach of related properties. e.g. Yahoo! Mail* includes users who visit both mail.yahoo.co.in and mail.yahoo.com.

Category: E-mail
July 2009
Source: ViziSense
PropertyUnique Users (M)
Yahoo! Mail*17.7
Gmail*16.6
Rediff Mail*6.16
MSN Mail*3.94
In.com Mail0.93
*represents the unduplicated reach of related properties. e.g. Yahoo! Mail* includes users who visit both mail.yahoo.co.in and mail.yahoo.com.
Category: E-mail
June 2009
Source: ViziSense
PropertyUnique Users (M)
Yahoo! Mail*18.30
Gmail*17.2
Rediff Mail*6.50
MSN Mail*4.00
In.com Mail0.91
*represents the unduplicated reach of related properties. e.g. Yahoo! Mail* includes users who visit both mail.yahoo.co.in and mail.yahoo.com.

During September, Gmail witnessed an increase of almost 3% in traffic compared to the previous month. Yahoo! Mail on the other hand, saw a decline of 8% whilst MSN Mail experienced an increase of nearly 6% in traffic since August

The above numbers for Yahoo! Mail represent the unduplicated reach of both mail.yahoo.com and mail.yahoo.co.in, as well as yahoomail.com. However, the numbers do not include the usage and access of Yahoo! Mail through the new Yahoo! Home Page.

The Top 5 Sites by Categories include Web Portals, Job Search, Search, Social Networking, Photo & Video Sharing, Email, Education, Matrimony, Airlines, Real Estate, Travel Ecommerce, Airlines, Banking, B2C Classifieds, B2B Classifieds, Automobiles, Entertainment, Music and Sports. To view the top Internet properties in these popular categories please visit www.vizisense.com/dashboard.

About ViziSense
ViziSense (www.vizisense.com) is India's first open online audience measurement service that accurately reports details of site visitor demographics and other audience characteristics. ViziSense is a product from Komli Media. Headquartered in Mumbai, Komli Media is also located in Delhi (India) and New York (US). For more information log on to www.komli.com.




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