Comscore Reports Traffic to Leading French Sites in March

Blogging and Travel Sites See Marked Traffic Increases During the Month

London, UK, 3 May 2007 – Comscore, a leader in measuring the digital world, today revealed the top 10 French Internet properties and the top gaining properties during March 2007, based on data collected through its Comscore World Metrix audience ratings service. Notable findings include:

• Google Sites, Microsoft Sites and France Telecom retained their rankings as the top three properties among French Internet users, with 17.2, 16.1 and 14.1 million French visitors, respectively.

• Groupe Aprovia re-entered the top 10 this month, driven by the popularity of its technology news site 01net.com.

• Spring and summer travel planning vaulted Amadeus Global Travel Distribution and Expedia Inc. into the list of the top 10 gaining properties in France. Amadeus led the gainers with 2.9 million French visitors (up 27 percent), while Expedia Inc. garnered 1.8 million visitors (up 25 percent).

• Hewlett Packard was the second-biggest gainer (up 27 percent to 2 million French visitors), driven largely by Snapfish.fr, its popular photo sharing and printing site.

• Blogging sites experienced substantial increases in the midst of the much-discussed French presidential election, highlighted by significant growth to both Canalblog.com (up 24 percent to 3.1 million visitors) and Radioblogclub.com (up 23 percent to 2 million visitors).

* Excludes traffic from public computers such as Internet cafes or access from mobile phones or PDAs.

*Ranking based on the top 100 French properties in March 2007.
** Excludes traffic from public computers such as Internet cafes or access from mobile phones or PDAs.

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