For the past few months, Compete. com has been utilizing the Compete Attention 200™, examining the top two hundred sites that receive the largest share of online Attention among US internet users. It’s a pretty cool list actually. It’s great for comparing and monitoring popular online destinations. For example there have been reports that Facebook was becoming a more visited destination than MySpace. Yet if we look at the latest Attention report for June 2007, we see that MySpace is still the top attention grabbing site according to Compete.com.

Some of the other interesting trends over the past few months include:

Over the past six months, attention to questionmarket.com has increased by 297% (The site is # 30 in terms if market share based on Compete’s data.)

Newer sites such veoh.com have had a tremendous increase in gaining attention of the US internet market. Veoh is a diverse, virtual community of indie publishers coming together with their new audiences. Over the past six months they have experienced a change in attention of almost 2400%.

Media and social networking sites contain to receive attention from the masses. This includes site like MySpace and Facebook.

A number of news and information sites such as about.com and usatoday.com experienced delcines in attention.

The list is very interesting. In fact on the compete.com blog there is a great comparison between the top 200 attention grabbing sites from December 2006 to June 2007.

Source: Compete.com

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