Hitwise names highest trafficked sites

Singapore - Yahoo Singapore and SPH Magazine's Hardware Zone were big winners at last night's Hitwise Singapore Online Performance Awards.

The former received six awards for having the highest number of visits in 2007 and the categories it won in are ‘Shopping and Classifieds - Auctions', ‘Shopping and Classifieds - Classified', ‘Business and Finance - Business Information' and ‘Computers and Internet - Email service' ‘Computers and Internet - Portal front page', and ‘Computers and Internet - Software (for Yahoo messenger)'.

Hardwarezone, which has amassed 17 Hitwise awards over seven years, aced three categories: ‘Computers and Internet - Hardware, News and Media', ‘IT Media and Computers and Internet' and ‘Social Networking and Forums'. It has also registered increased visits by 39.79% to 6.91 million for 2007 compared to the year before.

Lighthouse Independent Media-owned marketing-interactive.com was also awarded top in its category of ‘Business & Finance - Marketing'.

Results are based on the internet usage of approximately 1.5 million Singapore internet users visiting over 9,300 Singapore websites, with winners receiving the greatest market share of visits throughout 2007 in their online industry.

Other winners include, Mediacorp, Google, Cozycot, and Golden Village.