MySpace.com & Yahoo Top Sites People Spend Most Time On

By Loren Baker, Editor | January 25, 2007

Compete.com just published a blog entry ranking the top 20 sites which Internet users ~~waste~~ their time on.

The first two are predictable, MySpace.com and Yahoo. Google is ranked 5th.

Are you surprised?

Well you shouldn’t be as most of the time spent on Google is probably GMail or search. Their other channels aren’t really popular enough to suck up all of our online time, and Google is so efficient that ideally, they should not be listed anywhere near MySpace.

More factoids from Compete.com:

Only 20 domains capture a whopping 39% of all our time spent online.

Only 2.1% of our time is spent on Google.com (includes all sub-domains).

This surprised me somewhat, given how much I *think* I use Google everyday. I still think I use Google quite a bit, but now realize I don’t spend much time on the site itself. Google is NOT a portal with loads of content. Gmail and Google News are the only services that I spend considerable time on. Search, Maps, etc are quick look-up utilities, as they should be.

Even if one adds time spent on YouTube.com (#12) to Google.com’s (#5) tally — it still only adds up to 2.7%, and is well below time spent on Ebay.com (#4).

MySpace (#1) is miles ahead of Yahoo! (#2), however Yahoo! impresses. Yahoo holds a significant lead over Google+YouTube.com, MSN+Live.com and AOL+AIM.com. Yahoo simply needs to merge with MSN to take #1 (hint hint)

The presence of Adultfriendfinder.com on this list is surprising, but hey, everyone needs a friend, or two!