A record May for www.ilsole24ore.com. The Il Sole 24 ORE website tops the charts also in e-commerce (+36%) and advertising sales (+45%)

Milan, 10 June 2008 – Audiweb figures on Internet users and page views in May show that the www.ilsole24ore.com portal did remarkably well: 207,000 users per average day and3,309,650 users in May, the website’s record high, up 56% year-on-year; an average 1,231,000 daily page views, making a total of 38,185,481 page views in May, up 53% year-on-year.

 

Fueling the success of the www.ilsole24ore.com portal are a number of new services and features launched every month by the on-line staff: “Speciale Europei 2008” for instance, providing news, updates, matches in real time and the video report on Austria “E come Economia e Europei”. Debuting on line today, “Europunto”, Gigi Garanzini’s sports video feature. And fresh on the web, the Focus on Universities, launched a few days ago, with an interactive map on Italian universities and all the admission tests split up by faculty, prepared jointly with Hoepli Test.

 

Shopping24, the Il Sole 24 ORE e-commerce channel, scored great results too, up 36%year-on-year in May, with a progressive 32% rise over the January-May period.

 

Advertising sales on www.ilsole24ore.com run by WebSystem followed suit, with aprogressive 45.3% rise over the January-May period.