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ESPN.com Leads All Sports Web Sites For October
ESPN.com led all sports sites in October '07 with 20.2 million unique visitors, which was up 17.1% from a year ago, and up 8.1% from last month. Compared to last October, USAToday.com Sports is seeing the biggest increase in unique visitors, up 29.2%, while the start of the regular season led to NBA.com seeing the biggest jump from September '07. CBSSports.com/CSTV network is seeing the most amount of time spent per user on its sites, but the number is down 17.3% from the same period last year. The following presents the top sports sites for October '07, with comparisons to October '06, as well as September '07. Also visit SportsBusinessDaily.com for the top fantasy football sites from September '07 Also view the top fantasy football sites from September '07 (Nielsen Online).
TOP SPORTS SITES FOR OCTOBER '07RKSITEUNIQ. (000)1-YR % +/-1-MONTH % +/-PER USER (H:MM:SS)1-YR % +/-1-MONTH % +/-1ESPN.com20,18417.1%8.1%0:45:077.5%-13.3%2Yahoo Sports19,73021.0%-9.8%0:50:02-17.3%1.0%3FoxSports.com14,002-1.5%-4.9%0:24:00-17.5%-13.3%4CBSSports.com/
CSTV Network13,2066.9%-2.1%0:58:3920.8%2.2%5NFL.com 13,04712.4%-6.4%0:29:30-8.8%-9.8%6MLB.com 11,35826.8%4.4%0:19:398.8%-44.3%7eBay Sports 8,987-11.9%6.5%0:15:1427.7%8.6%8AOL Sports 7,30413.4%-3.6%0:17:48-30.8%-15.8%9SI.com 6,290-6.6%-5.7%0:24:479.2%14.3%10Fantasy Sports
Ventures Network4,754----3.8%0:30:09---10.4%11Turner Sports
New Media^3,808----23.6%0:23:08----21.1%12JumpTV Sports 3,356----8.5%0:09:31---2.0%13USAToday.com
Sports3,23329.2%3.1%0:09:22-45.2%-14.8%14Cabela's 3,0607.4%25.3%0:14:25-6.4%5.7%15NBA.com 2,440-9.3%41.9%0:14:5063.9%190.8%16NHL.com 2,368------0:12:06------17WWE 2,26814.1%-9.0%0:36:53-23.5%6.1%18REI 1,866---17.3%0:06:39----25.4%19Dick's Sporting Goods 1,7852.9%-19.1%0:04:4014.3%0.4%20SportingNews.com 1,448------0:19:09------NOTES: ^ = Aggregation of web traffic including NASCAR.com, PGATour.com and PGA.com which occurred in '07.
