ISSUE 07THE WEBSITE ISSUE
 
Trendsetters' Favorite Websites Survey
Outlaw Consulting
October 2008

Sample: 100 trendsetters between the ages of 18-29 living in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Miami.

Method: First surveyed 26 trendsetters with open-ended questions to compile a list of their favorite websites and why they liked them, then surveyed a different full sample of 100 with this list for quantitative reactions. In the second survey we asked the sample to rate the list in two ways; first, how much they "like" the website, second, how "often they visit" the website. The published list is based on responses to the second question, the frequency of visits to the site. The second survey also included two open-ended questions to extrapolate the differences between their answers to the first two questions.

Question: Below is a list of websites. Please rate each one for how often you visit it. A "10" means it is one of the sites you visit most frequently; a "5" means you visit it occasionally but neither frequently nor infrequently; a "1" means you never visit it. If you've never heard of the site, choose "Not familiar."

Top 15 Most Frequently Visited Websites

1 Facebook.com 58%
2 Wikipedia.org 51%
3 YouTube.com 49%
4 Craigslist.org 48%
5 MySpace.com 38%
6 Ebay.com 32%
7 NYTimes.com 31%
8 Yelp.com 29%
9 Flickr.com 26%
10 Netflix.com 25%
11 Pandora.com 23%
12 PerezHilton.com 18%
13 Amazon.com 16%
14 CNN.com 14%
15 Hulu.com 14%

 

Sample = 100; Rankings based on percentage who chose the site as either a 9 or 10 for frequency