Table 1.
Summary of monitored websites (N=20).
| Website | Website type | US ranka | Unique visitors per montha | |
| Health-related |
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Yahoo! Health | Health | 209 | 21,500,000 |
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WebMD | Health | 247 | 19,500,000 |
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MedicineNet.com | Health | 563 | 10,500,000 |
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Drugs.com | Health | 871 | 6,000,000 |
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Everyday Health | Health | 969 | 5,700,000 |
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WrongDiagnosis.com | Health | 1203 | 4,700,000 |
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MedHelp | Health | 1243 | 4,600,000 |
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RightHealth | Health | 1590 | 4,150,000 |
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Wellsphere | Health | 1726 | 3,900,000 |
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RxList | Health | 2601 | 2,400,000 |
| Non–health-related |
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Yahoo! | Web portal | 2 | 110,000,000 |
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MSN | Web portal | 5 | 450,000,000 |
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The Walt Disney Company | Web portal | 13 | 81,000,000 |
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AOL | Web portal | 16 | 72,000,000 |
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CNN | News | 20 | 50,000,000 |
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The New York Times | News | 34 | 12,000,000 |
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Fox News | News | 50 | 8,200,000 |
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The Huffington Post | News | 51 | 7,500,000 |
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The Washington Post | News | 72 | 5,600,000 |
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The Wall Street Journal | News | 80 | 5,600,000 |
a Based on Google’s “List of the Most Visited Webpages” for 2011 [41].