Musings of a Freelance SEO Consultant » Google.co.uk UK traffic http://www.justinmarch.com/blog Musings of a Freelance SEO Consultant – I offer Ethical SEO, PPC & Web Design to businesses in Gloucester, Cheltenham and throughout the UK. Sun, 04 Sep 2011 10:56:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 The ratio of Google.co.uk to Google.com traffic within the UK http://www.justinmarch.com/blog/ratio-google-co-uk-google-com-traffic-uk/ http://www.justinmarch.com/blog/ratio-google-co-uk-google-com-traffic-uk/#comments Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:31:24 +0000 Justin March http://www.justinmarch.com/blog/?p=124

What’s the ratio of Google.co.uk to Google.com traffic within the UK?  I have been searching for the answer to this question for weeks now.  I have conducted exhaustive searches on Google (which took all of 10 minutes) I even posted a question within the Google Support Forums and now at last I have found some data that goes some way to answering the question.

From experience I know that most UK based users are redirected to Google.co.uk by default, but I also know of other UK based users who have been using Google.com.

Finally my question in the Google Support Forums has lead to an answer supplied by Hitwise.

And the answer is:

Google.co.uk 73.74%
Google.com 13.77%
uk.search.yahoo.com 2.94%
www.uk.ask.com 2.80%
live.com 2.20%
search.msn.co.uk 1.21%
search.yahoo.com 1.13%
search.orange.co.uk 1.05%
search.msn.co.uk 0.31%
www.ask.com 0.16%

Source: Hitwise

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