Top ranking social networks

According to www.compete.com the following is a list of the top 25 social networking sites by total monthly visits at the end of January ’09:

1. facebook.com
2. myspace.com
3. twitter.com
4. flixster.com
5. linkedin.com
6. tagged.com
7. classmates.com
8. myyearbook.com
9. livejournal.com
10. imeem.com
11. reunion.com
12. ning.com
13. blackplanet.com
14. bebo.com
15. hi5.com
16. yuku.com
17. cafemom.com
18. friendster.com
19. xanga.com
20. 360.yahoo.com
21. orkut.com
22. urbanchat.com
23. fubar.com
24. asiantown.net
25. tickle.com

facebook.com had over 1.1 billion visits in January from nearly 69 million unique visitors, in comparison to tickle.com which was visited 109,492 times by 96,155 people. In comparative terms then, on a frequency basis, each unique user visited Facebook 17.4 times during the month in comparison to Tickle’s frequency of 1.1.

The big winner on frequency would have been asiantown.com with a frequency of 13.8, equal to My Space in frequency albeit just over 809 million visits behind in absolute terms!