Web data center launched

Despite the Americanized usage of center, the UK has a new source of insider knowledge to draw on.

For the UK arm of web analysts, Hitwise have launched a data center offering free sample information on online usage and search data from its subscriber services. Based on online behaviour and search data from 8.43 million internet users in the UK, the free web tips are aimed at academics, marketers and the general public alike.
Among the key points and statistics are:

• top 25 most visited web sites based on market share of visits
• leading search engines by volume of searches
• top 10 industry search terms from across 20 pre-selected industries, from the more than 160 industry categories reported on by Hitwise

Also of interest, are a monthly usage report on a featured industry and links to the latest blog postings by Hitwise research analysts.