According to research conducted by comScore more than 19.7 million people age 15 and older accessed the Internet from a home or work location in Turkey, viewing an average of 3,070 pages of content and spending an average of 31.6 hours per person online giving Turkey the seventh largest online population in Europe.
Overall comScore reports that among internet users in Turkey communications and entertainment activities accounted for much of the total time spent online. Among the key findings:
- Instant messaging, led by Windows Live Messenger, was the most popular online activity accounting for 25.9 percent of total time spent online during the month, followed by social networking (9.9 percent), online games (6.9 percent) and e-mail (4.6 percent).
- Google Sites was the most popular property in Turkey in September with 18.4 million visitors, reaching 93.0 percent of the total online population, followed Microsoft Sites with 17.6 million visitors.
- Social networking giant, Facebook.com, ranked third with 16.1 million visitors, having grown 26 percent in just the past six months.
- Dogan Online, which attracted 11.1 million visitors in September, led a total of seven Turkish-based properties that ranked amongst the top 15, including Milliyet Group (8.8 million visitors), Mynet A.S. (8.3 million visitors) and Blogcu.com (8.2 million visitors).
- Window’s Live Profile – which provides a gateway to Turkey’s most popular Instant Messenger, Window’s Live Messenger – ranked second with 7.8 million visitors, followed by Turkish property Mynet Eksenim (3.2 million visitors) and Netlog.com (1.8 million visitors).
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