General data recollected for the studio " Analysis of the Quantitative Impact of Social Networks on Web Traffic of Cybermedia in the 27 Countries of the European Union". Four research questions are posed: what percentage of the total web traffic generated by cybermedia in the European Union comes from social networks? Is said percentage higher or lower than that provided through direct traffic and through the use of search engines via SEO positioning? Which social networks have a greater impact? And is there any degree of relationship between the specific weight of social networks in the web traffic of a cybermedia and circumstances such as the average duration of the user's visit, the number of page views or the bounce rate understood in its formal aspect of not performing any kind of interaction on the visited page beyond reading its content? To answer these questions, we have first proceeded to a selection of the cybermedia with the highest web traffic of the 27 countries that are currently part of the European Union after the United Kingdom left on December 31, 2020. In each nation we have selected five media using a combination of the global web traffic metrics provided by the tools Alexa (https://www.alexa.com/), which ceased to be operational on May 1, 2022, and SimilarWeb (https:// www.similarweb.com/). We have not used local metrics by country since the results obtained with these first two tools were sufficiently significant and our objective is not to establish a ranking of cybermedia by nation but to examine the relevance of social networks in their web traffic. In all cases, cybermedia whose property corresponds to a journalistic company have been selected, ruling out those belonging to telecommunications portals or service providers; in some cases they correspond to classic information companies (both newspapers and televisions) while in others they refer to digital natives, without this circumstance affecting the nature of the research proposed.
Below we have proceeded to examine the web traffic data of said cybermedia. The period corresponding to the months of October, November and December 2021 and January, February and March 2022 has been selected. We believe that this six-month stretch allows possible one-time variations to be overcome for a month, reinforcing the precision of the data obtained. To secure this data, we have used the SimilarWeb tool, currently the most precise tool that exists when examining the web traffic of a portal, although it is limited to that coming from desktops and laptops, without taking into account those that come from mobile devices, currently impossible to determine with existing measurement tools on the market. It includes:

Web traffic general data: average visit duration, pages per visit and bounce rate Web traffic origin by country Percentage of traffic generated from social media over total web traffic Distribution of web traffic generated from social networks Comparison of web traffic generated from social netwoks with direct and search procedures

Difference uses Google Analytics as the Baseline. Results based on Paired t-Test for Hypotheses Supported.

Preliminary research efforts regarding Social Media Platforms and their contribution to website traffic in LAMs. Through the Similar Web API, the leading social networks (Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Instagram, Reddit, Pinterest, LinkedIn) that drove traffic to each one of the 220 cases in our dataset were identified and analyzed in the first sheet. Aggregated results proved that Facebook platform was responsible for 46.1% of social traffic (second sheet).

The Alternative Data Market size was valued at USD 7.20 billion in 2023 and is projected to reach USD 126.50 billion by 2032, exhibiting a CAGR of 50.6 % during the forecasts period. The use and processing of information that is not in financial databases is known as the alternative data market. Such data involves posts in social networks, satellite images, credit card transactions, web traffic and many others. It is mostly used in financial field to make the investment decisions, managing risks and analyzing competitors, giving a more general view on market trends as well as consumers’ attitude. It has been found that there is increasing requirement for the obtaining of data from unconventional sources as firms strive to nose ahead in highly competitive markets. Some current trend are the finding of AI and machine learning to drive large sets of data and the broadening utilization of the so called “Alternative Data” across industries that are not only the finance industry. Recent developments include: In April 2023, Thinknum Alternative Data launched new data fields to its employee sentiment datasets for people analytics teams and investors to use this as an 'employee NPS' proxy, and support highly-rated employers set up interviews through employee referrals. , In September 2022, Thinknum Alternative Data announced its plan to combine data Similarweb, SensorTower, Thinknum, Caplight, and Pathmatics with Lagoon, a sophisticated infrastructure platform to deliver an alternative data source for investment research, due diligence, deal sourcing and origination, and post-acquisition strategies in private markets. , In May 2022, M Science LLC launched a consumer spending trends platform, providing daily, weekly, monthly, and semi-annual visibility into consumer behaviors and competitive benchmarking. The consumer spending platform provided real-time insights into consumer spending patterns for Australian brands and an unparalleled business performance analysis. .

Host country of organization for 86 websites in study.

The Ad Intelligence Software market is experiencing robust growth, driven by the increasing need for precise and actionable insights in the dynamic digital advertising landscape. The market's expansion is fueled by the rising adoption of programmatic advertising, the growing complexity of multi-channel marketing campaigns, and the demand for improved return on ad spend (ROAS). Key players like Pathmatics, SimilarWeb, and Sensor Tower are capitalizing on this demand, offering sophisticated solutions that analyze ad performance across various platforms, identify competitor strategies, and optimize marketing budgets. The market's segmentation reflects the diverse needs of advertisers, ranging from small businesses to large multinational corporations. While challenges remain, such as data privacy concerns and the need for continuous software updates to accommodate evolving advertising technologies, the overall market outlook remains positive. We estimate the 2025 market size to be approximately $5 billion, based on the observed growth of related digital marketing technologies and the increasing sophistication of ad buying strategies. A projected CAGR of 15% from 2025-2033 indicates a substantial market expansion. This growth will be fueled by increasing adoption in emerging markets and continued innovation within the software capabilities. The competitive landscape is characterized by a mix of established players and emerging companies, fostering innovation and driving the development of more advanced analytical tools. This competition benefits advertisers by providing a wider range of options and driving down costs. The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) into ad intelligence software is a significant trend, enhancing the capabilities of these platforms to identify patterns, predict future performance, and automate campaign optimization. Growth in mobile advertising and the rise of connected TV (CTV) are also expanding the scope of ad intelligence software, requiring platforms to adapt and provide comprehensive cross-platform analysis. The global nature of the market necessitates solutions that cater to regional differences in advertising practices and regulations.

Comparison of definitions of total visits, unique visitors, bounce rate, and session duration conceptually and for the two analytics platforms: Google Analytics and SimilarWeb.

The Alternative Data Platform market is experiencing robust growth, driven by the increasing need for businesses across diverse sectors to leverage non-traditional data sources for improved decision-making. The market, estimated at $5 billion in 2025, is projected to expand significantly over the forecast period (2025-2033), fueled by a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 25%. This growth is primarily attributed to several key factors. Firstly, the rising adoption of cloud-based solutions offers scalability and cost-effectiveness, attracting businesses of all sizes. Secondly, the expanding application of alternative data in areas like fraud detection (BFSI), supply chain optimization (Retail and Logistics), and market prediction (IT and Telecommunications) is pushing market expansion. Furthermore, the increasing availability and affordability of alternative data sources, combined with advancements in data analytics and machine learning, are enabling businesses to extract greater value from these non-traditional datasets. While data security and privacy concerns present a challenge, the overall market outlook remains overwhelmingly positive. The market segmentation reveals strong growth across various applications and types. The BFSI sector is a major driver due to its need for enhanced risk management and fraud prevention. The cloud-based segment dominates the market due to its flexibility and accessibility. North America currently holds the largest market share, followed by Europe and Asia Pacific, reflecting the higher level of technological advancement and adoption in these regions. However, the Asia Pacific region is poised for significant growth due to increasing digitalization and rising investments in data analytics infrastructure. The competitive landscape is dynamic, with a mix of established players and emerging startups offering diverse solutions. The success of individual companies depends on their ability to innovate, provide reliable data, ensure data security, and offer user-friendly platforms. Competition is likely to intensify as more companies enter this rapidly evolving market.

The Alternative Data Platform market is experiencing robust growth, driven by the increasing demand for non-traditional data sources within the financial services sector. The market's expansion is fueled by several key factors: the rise of quantitative investment strategies that heavily rely on alternative data for alpha generation; the growing sophistication of data analytics techniques capable of extracting meaningful insights from complex datasets; and the increasing availability of diverse alternative data streams, including social media sentiment, satellite imagery, and transactional data. This market is segmented across various data types (e.g., web traffic, social media, satellite imagery), industry verticals (e.g., finance, retail, healthcare), and deployment models (cloud-based, on-premise). The competitive landscape is characterized by both established players and emerging fintech companies, leading to ongoing innovation and consolidation. We estimate the market size in 2025 to be $5 billion, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 25% projected through 2033. This signifies substantial future opportunities for vendors and investors alike. Significant trends shaping this market include the increasing adoption of cloud-based platforms for scalability and cost-effectiveness, the rise of AI-powered data analytics for enhanced insight extraction, and a greater focus on data security and regulatory compliance. However, challenges remain. These include the high cost of alternative data acquisition and processing, the need for specialized expertise in data science and analytics, and concerns related to data quality and bias. Despite these restraints, the overall market outlook is positive, with continued growth driven by the expanding use of alternative data across a broader range of industries and investment strategies. The competitive landscape includes companies like Accelex, Exabel, Similarweb, Preqin, and many others actively innovating and expanding their offerings to meet the evolving needs of the market. This ongoing innovation and competition ensure a dynamic and rapidly changing marketplace.

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Now that the ICTs have matured, Information Organizations such as Libraries, Archives and Museums, also known as LAMs, proceed into the utilization of web technologies that are capable to expand the visibility and findability of their content. Within the current flourishing era of the semantic web, LAMs have voluminous amounts of web-based collections that are presented and digitally preserved through their websites. However, prior efforts indicate that LAMs suffer from fragmentation regarding the determination of well-informed strategies for improving the visibility and findability of their content on the Web (Vállez and Ventura, 2020; Krstić and Masliković, 2019; Voorbij, 2010). Several reasons related to this drawback. As such, administrators’ lack of data analytics competency in extracting and utilizing technical and behavioral datasets for improving visibility and awareness from analytics platforms; the difficulties in understanding web metrics that integrated into performance measurement systems; and hence the reduced capabilities in defining key performance indicators for greater usability, visibility, and awareness.

In this enriched and updated technical report, the authors proceed into an examination of 504 unique websites of Libraries, Archives and Museums from all over the world. It is noted that the current report has been expanded by up to 14,81% of the prior one Version 0.9.5 of 439 domains examinations. The report aims to visualize the performance of the websites in terms of technical aspects such as their adequacy to metadata description of their content and collections, their loading speed, and security. This constitutes an important stepping-stone for optimization, as the higher the alignment with the technical compliencies, the greater the users’ behavior and usability within the examined websites, and thus their findability and visibility level in search engines (Drivas et al. 2020; Mavridis and Symeonidis 2015; Agarwal et al. 2012).

One step further, within this version, we include behavioral analytics about users engagement with the content of the LAMs websites. More specifically, web analytics metrics are included such as Visit Duration, Pages per Visit, and Bounce Rates for 121 domains. We also include web analytics regarding the channels that these websites acquire their users, such as Direct traffic, Search Engines, Referral, Social Media, Email, and Display Advertising. SimilarWeb API was used to gather web data about the involved metrics.

In the first pages of this report, general information is presented regarding the names of the examined organizations. This also includes their type, their geographical location, information about the adopted Content Management Systems (CMSs), and web server software types of integration per website. Furthermore, several other data are visualized related to the size of the examined Information Organizations in terms of the number of unique webpages within a website, the number of images, internal and external links and so on.

Moreover, as a team, we proceed into the development of several factors that are capable to quantify the performance of websites. Reliability analysis takes place for measuring the internal consistency and discriminant validity of the proposed factors and their included variables. For testing the reliability, cohesion, and consistency of the included metrics, Cronbach’s Alpha (a), McDonald’s ω and Guttman λ-2 and λ-6 are used.
- For Cronbach’s, a range of .550 up to .750 indicates an acceptable level of reliability and .800 or higher a very good level (Ursachi, Horodnic, and Zait, 2015). - McDonald’s ω indicator has the advantage to measure the strength of the association between the proposed variables. More specifically, the closer to .999 the higher the strength association between the variables and vice versa (Şimşek and Noyan, 2013). - Gutman’s λ-2 and λ-6 work verifiably to Cronbach’s a as they estimate the trustworthiness of variance of the gathered web analytics metrics. Low values less than .450 indicate high bias among the harvested web metrics, while values higher than .600 and above increase the trustworthiness of the sample (Callender and Osburn, 1979). -Kaiser–Meyer–Olkin (KMO) and Bartlett’s Test of Sphericity indicators are used for measuring the cohesion of the involved metrics. KMO and Bartlett’s test indicates that the closer the value is to .999 amongst the involved items, the higher the cohesion and consistency of them for potential categorization (Dziuban and S...

Website type for the 86 websites in study.

Industry vertical of organization for 86 websites in study.

Puff Bar, a disposable electronic nicotine delivery system (ENDS), was the ENDS brand most commonly used by U.S. youth in 2021. We explored whether Puff Bar’s rise in marketplace prominence was detectable through advertising, retail sales, social media, and web traffic data sources. We retrospectively documented potential signals of interest in and uptake of Puff Bar in the United States using metrics based on advertising (Numerator and Comperemedia), retail sales (NielsenIQ), social media (Twitter, via Sprinklr), and web traffic (Similarweb) data from January 2019 to June 2022. We selected metrics based on (1) data availability, (2) potential to graph metric longitudinally, and (3) variability in metric. We graphed metrics and assessed data patterns compared to data for Vuse, a comparator product, and in the context of regulatory events significant to Puff Bar. The number of Twitter posts that contained a Puff Bar term (social media), Puff Bar product sales measured in dollars (sales), and the number of visits to the Puff Bar website (web traffic) exhibited potential for surveilling Puff Bar due to ease of calculation, comprehensibility, and responsiveness to events. Advertising tracked through Numerator and Comperemedia did not appear to capture marketing from Puff Bar’s manufacturer or drive change in marketplace prominence. This study demonstrates how quantitative changes in metrics developed using advertising, retail sales, social media, and web traffic data sources detected changes in Puff Bar’s marketplace prominence. We conclude that low-effort, scalable, rapid signal detection capabilities can be an important part of a multi-component tobacco surveillance program.

This statistic shows the leading online dating websites in the Netherlands as of January 2017, based on the number of visitors per month. The source mentions that dating websites in the Netherlands do not provide this information and the data comes from intelligence agency Similarweb. As of January 2017, Lexa.nl was the most popular online dating website in the Netherlands, with 426,000 monthly visitors.

During the second half of 2017, roughly 17 percent of the Dutch internet users indicated they visited an online dating website, service or app. Users aged 16 to 24 years did this the most: approximately 22 percent of all users in this age group indicated they did so.