Do Romands like information or games?

The March data from the NetRatings and MMXI Internet panels According to MMXI, 2.767 million Swiss people surfed the Internet from home for an average of 317 minutes in March, visiting 269 websites. According to the data from NetRatings, however, 2.134 million people surfed for 362 minutes each on their home computer and visited 532 sites. Strangely enough, MMXI's usage time for March is only one minute longer than in February, while according to NetRatings, users spent a whole 25 minutes longer surfing in March than in February. The surfing behavior of the French-speaking Swiss varies greatly depending on the panel: at MMXI, the surfing favorites are Microsoft.fr and Ya hoo.fr (17th and 19th place), a French-language software provider and a search engine, while at NetRatings the French-speaking Swiss tend to prefer Lycos.fr (17th place). At MMXI (but not at NetRatings), Blick.ch once again appears among the top 20 domains after a long absence (rank 20). Markus Knöpfli
Top 20 domains mar 2002

Nielsen/NetRatings MMXI
Rank Domain Visitors Reach Domain Visitors Reach
in 1000 in % in 1000 in %
 1 bluewin.ch 957 44.9 bluewin.ch 1 422 51.4
 2 microsoft.com 823 38.6 msn.com 784 28.3
 3 msn.com 683 32.0 microsoft.com 758 27.4
 4 google.ch 558 26.1 msn.ch 752 27.2
 5 passport.com 508 23.8 google.ch 750 27.1
 6 search.ch 423 19.8 passport.com 661 23.9
 7 msn.ch 391 18.3 search.ch 630 22.8
 8 yahoo.com 375 17.6 yahoo.com 594 21.5
 9 sunrise.ch 348 16.3 sunrise.ch 502 18.2
10 sbb.ch 288 13.5 sbb.ch 477 17.2
11 yahoo.de 281 13.2 gmx.de 387 14.0
12 google.com 265 12.4 msn.de 365 13.2
13 gmx.net 221 10.4 google.com 336 12.1
14 windowsmedia.com 206 9.6 yahoo.de 307 11.1
15 gmx.ch 201 9.4 real.com 245 8.9
16 yellownet.ch 178 8.4 ubs.com 241 8.7
17 lycos.fr 178 8.3 microsoft.fr 236 8.5
18 geocities.com 177 8.3 yahoo.fr 222 8.0
20 gator.com 173 8.1 blick.ch 214 7.7
Source: AC Nielsen/MMXI