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We have been doing this monthly, but we'll do it quarterly now, since it takes 8 hours to do each time.
You can always click the links for each company to check out the latest.
How relevant are you?
Alexa rates - Time on Site
Alexa.com compiles statistics for the internet industry.
On September 21, 2009 these are the stats for the
Top 40 web sites that list photographers
over a 3 month time period
(If there is a tie the winner will be determined by the highest score of the previous time)

Time-on-site is the most important factor in determining relevance.
Relevance is the first step toward buying.
(The links on each company name go to their Alexa page for current stats)
(click on links to see current status.)

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40.		  24.6 minutes Best USA Photographers.com                 26.4     27.2   13.9
  12.8             Nature Photographers                                                13.5        12.5      12.1
  10.6             Shutterstock                                                                11.0         11.2     10.9
  10.5             iStockphoto.com                                                         10.4         10.5     10.5
    9.7             Corbis                                                                             8.7          6.6        4.8
    7.7             Getty Images                                                                  7.4          6.9        6.6
    7.7             Photographers.com                                                      5.1          4.5        3.9
    7.1             BigStockPhoto                                                               7.5          7.7        7.4
    6.8             Shutterfly                                                                        6.7          6.6        6.4
    6.4             SmugMug                                                                       6.4           6.4       6.2

    6.4             photoshelter.com                                                          5.5          5.2       5.1
    5.9             The Knot                                                                         5.9          5.9       5.8
    5.1             Kodak Gallery                                                                 5.2          5.4       5.5
    4.9             Professional Photographers of Canada                     5.2          4.6       3.0
    4.8             Dreamstime Stock Photography                                  4.8          4.8       4.8
    4.7             Flickr                                                                               4.8          4.8       4.8
    4.4             sitewelder.com                                                              4.0          4.8       4.5
    4.2             National Association of Photoshop Professionals    3.2          3.5       3.7
    4.0             Professional Photographers of America                    4.0          4.6       5.0
    3.9             photographersdirect.com                                            4.3          5.9       6.2

    3.6             photoportfolios.net                                                       3.7          3.5       3.2
    3.2             Magnum Photos                                                             3.4          4.3       5.0
    3.1             The Wedding Photojournalist Association                 3.4          3.9       4.4
    3.1             Photobucket                                                                   3.3          3.3       3.4
    3.1             PhotographyBlog                                                           3.0          3.0       2.8
    3.1             Photo Marketing Association International               2.9           2.9       3.8
    3.0             foliolink.com                                                                   3.3          2.8       3.1
    3.0             wppionline.com                                                             3.0           3.5       3.8
    2.9             WedPlan                                                                         2.6           2.7       3.0
    2.8             Photo.net                                                                       2.9           2.8       2.9
   
    2.7             The National Geographic Society                               2.7          2.6        2.5
    2.5             Popular Photography                                                   2.5           2.9       2.8
    2.4             Photography-now.net                                                New to top 40
    2.3             Outdoor Photographer                                                2.4           2.5       2.3
    2.3             PBase                                                                             2.2           2.3       2.3
    2.2             Webshots                                                                       2.3          2.3        2.3
    2.1             betterphoto.com                                                           2.0           2.2       2.4
    2.0             Fotosearch Stock Photography                                  2.0           2.1       2.1
    1.9             photography.com                                                          1.9          2.2       2.5
    1.8             National Press Photographers Association              2.0           2.0       1.8
   

What good are a million unique visitors if they don't spend time on your site. Buyers spend time looking. It makes sense to be on the site that gets looked at the longest. By the way, the 6-24 stats to the right of the company name were BEFORE Best USA Photographers put up the new pages. You might want to check out the boxes to the upper left to see the new look.

This is just one chart on a VERY interesting article
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