Times network of sites emerges as leaders in news and auto: comScore, Aug'10

Times Internet Ltd. (TIL) has once again proved itself as the leading player in the Indian online space. As per the latest comScore data, released for August 2010 for India, Times Internet Limited is the leading Indian internet network, in India. Times Internet limited is ahead of other internet networks like Rediff and Web 18, and comes overall seventh in India, behind networks like Google and Facebook.

Amongst the general English newspaper portals, timesofindia.com tops the chart with significant margin. timesofindia.com had 4.92 million unique visitors, while expressindia.com was at 0.95 million, followed by hindustantimes.com at 0.8 million. The 4.92 million unique visitors make 18 million visits to the site in a month, resulting in 127 million pageviews. These page views and visits numbers, are larger than any single news portal in India. Amongst the financial newspaper portals, economictimes.com remains the leader with 1.13 million unique visitors in India. In the segment of key auto portals, zigwheel.com, has emerged with maximum unique visitors in India with 1.02 million unique visitors, ahead of carwale.com at 0.85 million and gaadi.com at 0.64 million, as per comScore Aug'10 India data.

As per comScore world wide release for August, 2010, TIL stands at 15.8 million unique visitors, with timesofindia.com at 8.3 million, economictimes.com at 1.67 million and zigwheels at 1.1 milion unique visitors.

Commenting on the results Rishi Khiani, CEO, Times Internet Limited said, "We are very happy with the results. It shows that our continuous efforts to bring innovation and better value proposition are well accepted by the internet audience."