comScore Networks has today revealed which Web properties were the most popular, ranked by way of total unique visitors over the age of 15 and across the month, during December 2006.
According to the comScore analysis, Internet usage increased 10 percent between December 2005 and 2006, with the search and navigation category containing the top three sites and growing by 9 percent overall. Interestingly, while Microsoft topped the hot property table it only grew by 5 percent worldwide, the same as Yahoo! which placed third overall. Google, second in the overall list, saw the biggest spike with 13 percent global growth for the year. When looked at in terms of the top gaining categories for 2006, search, multimedia, community, email and games lead the way and present no real surprises.