The Register® — Biting the hand that feeds IT

eBay is the best Web site in the world

Amazon forced from its throne

Free whitepaper – PowerEdge M610-M710 spec sheet

Online auction site eBay is now king of the castle when it comes to e-commerce sites, according to the latest figures. And Amazon's a dirty rascal.

The Nielsen/Net Ratings report claims that eBay's visitors have grown by more than four million in March to reach 22.13 million. This figure makes the site bigger than previous heavyweight champion Amazon, which came in with 22.08 million, having attracted just one million more surfers last month.

eBay apparently also gets more page views out of its audience and they spend longer snooping about. There is also the added bonus that eBay actually makes money while Amazon has had to change its strategy in an attempt to pull itself into the black.

For more Nielsen/Net Ratings stats read our 7m extra surfers log onto World Wide Web in March story.

In fact, if stats are your thing, don't wait for us to write silly stories for you - visit the Nielsen/Net Ratings site here and you get loads of stats. ®

Related Stories

7m extra surfers log onto World Wide Web in March

Free whitepaper – SPECjbb2005 performance and power consumption on Dell, HP, and IBM blade servers

Don’t Miss

DustbinDirty, dirty PCs: The X-rated picture guide

Ventblockers Horror beyond human imagination

SC09Top 500 supers - rise of the Linux quad-cores

SC09 Jaguar munches Roadrunner

Ubuntu teaser Early adopters bloodied by Ubuntu's Karmic Koala

Smooth Windows upgrade it ain't

Sign up, sign up for The Register IT security newsletter

Narrowcasting for the email classes