THE isleofman.com website has achieved a significant landmark by attracting more than half a million unique visitors during 2010. This makes it one of the most successful Isle of Man-based media and information websites.
Statistics from Google Analytics show that isleofman.com had 531,491 unique visitors between January and December 2010, an increase of 13.9 percent on the previous year.
Gavin Smith, isleofman.com's general manager, said: "Our statistics have been increasing steadily month-on-month for some time and it's very pleasing to see this milestone has now been achieved.
"We have a number of new initiatives in the pipeline which will further enhance our presence and I'm confident visitors to isleofman.com will continue to strongly increase."
isleofman.com has also been acknowledged as the most popular local media website by the leading web information resource Alexa.com, which is owned by Amazon.
The Alexa site rank is an independent measure of a website's popularity. The ranks shown below are updated daily and calculated using a combination of average daily unique visitors and page views over the past three months.
The site with the highest combination of visitors and page views is ranked number one – currently Google.com
Global rank UK rank
isleofman.com 123,983 9,882
Manx.net 185,130 108,005
Iomtoday.co.im 219,358 34,362
Manxradio.com 395,624 45,342
Three.fm 923,767 no data
Energyfm.net 1,654,429 no data
Visitisleofman.com 1,801,481 no data
Directory.im 2,108,580 no data
Manxtube.com 3,055,763 no data
Moneymedia.co.im 7,261,775 no data
Not ranked by Alexa:
BBC Isle of Man - bbc.co.uk/local/Isleofman/hi
The Best Of Isle of Man - thebestof.co.uk/local/the-isle-of-man
(Data correct 21 March 2011)
Gavin added: "The internet and other digital channels are increasingly playing a role in the marketing of local businesses. At isleofman.com we can provide advice and assistance across a range of activities covering search engine marketing, link building, PR coverage, social media and mobile content. This is all backed by 11 years of experience operating one of the Island's largest, longest established and most visited websites."
David Le Prevost, managing director of isleofman.com, concluded: "This is strong evidence of our investment over the last few years to create and distribute content and information that attracts real site traffic.
"The launch of our new Apple news app is the latest such investment and is already showing good uptake with over 185 downloads during its soft launch.
"Across all channels our content always relates to the Isle of Man – we do not publish material or accept advertising from elsewhere and so can always guarantee a 100 percent Manx experience for our visitors."
The isleofman.com news app for iPhone, iPod and iPad can be downloaded by clicking here
