Google, Microsoft and Yahoo!, may the best site win.

I don’t know what’s your opinion on Alexa but I consider it to be at least a hint when you talk about site statistics. If we consider the data Alexa provides as a guideline you can easily see that the top three sites listed are: Yahoo!, MSN and Google. Not necessarily in that order.

First of all we must consider the services provided by the three giants. Yahoo!, Google and MSN have mailing services, search engines and ads services. So in some way we can compare the sites, but also it must be considered that MSN has a separated site for the search engine: live.com. Let’s take a look at the stats and then discuss it some more:

As you can see, it seems that MSN beats Yahoo! and Google by a long shot. What you should know is that the majority of MSN visitors are located in U.S. If you take a look on the same charts provided by Alexa you’ll find out that in most countries of Europe MSN it’s not only in the first three places.

The big surprise of this experiment is that Google doesn’t rule the charts, as I was expecting. I thing this is partially due to Alexa’s rating algorithms and partially due to sub-site system that Google uses. Anyhow it doesn’t matter, Google is the most prolific company of them all in the last period.