Randy Seaver in his Genea-Musings blog from time to time analyzes traffic statistics of genealogy sites.

On Jan 31, 2009 he started a new series of posts:
TGN/Ancestry.com Traffic statistics - Post 1
TGN/Ancestry traffic statistics - Post 2, and… Continue

Based on feedback from Louis Kessler (http://genealogymetrics.ning.com/profiles/blogs/metrics-for-genealogy-software), I have added Geni, One Great Family, and Genoom to the traffic rankings.

I added Geni.com to the Quantcast traffic chart as one of the top 4 genealogy sites.

Hello David,

Very interesting site you've put up here. I've always been interested in Genealogy metrics, especailly those for genealogy software.

I'm curious how you select what sites are "genealogy" to include in your metrics. I do see very few software sites listed.

There's never been any "hard" evidence of which are the most popular programs, there's only been claims by the developers, so it would be great to see an Alexa list or something maintained by someone.

If you need a list, I main… Continue

I'm a Programmer and Genealogist.

I maintain a Genealogy Software Review site at: www.gensoftreviews.com

See my own program Behold at: www.beholdgenealogy.com

Oh, and I did have a world-class (at the time) chess program named Brute Force

See my personal website at: www.lkessler.com, and the unique way I set up… Continue

After a discussion with my a long time friend Shelly Dardashti, I have added a new section named "Top 9 - All Genealogy/Family History" that includes the top 9 of all Genealogy or Family History web sites.

Her concern was that their may be comfusion by some site visitors. The web sites were broken into different sessions based on the location of the company that created the site or the site's target market.

She makes the valid point that everything on the internet is "completely international"… Continue