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Top Referrers (Inbound Links) to CDC.gov

2011 Annual Summary

Analysis: The Top Referrer report lists the top 25 domains of external Web sites which link to CDC.gov. This is also referred to as inbound links, permanent links, or hard coded links to any page on CDC.gov.

For 2011, the Google search engine (U.S.) remained the top referrer accounting for 72% of the traffic to CDC.gov based on the top 10 referring domains. The Yahoo and Bing search engines account for 14%. Combined, the majority of traffic to CDC.gov in 2011 came from these three sites.

pie chart depicting the top 10 referrers to CDC.gov

 

Rank
Referring Domain
Instances
1 google.com 73,900,927
2 bing.com 7,357,924
3 yahoo.com 6,979,749
4 google.ca 3,154,931
5 google.co.uk 3,045,298
6 google.com.mx 2,465,494
7 nih.gov 1,653,670
8 google.com.au 1,417,351
9 google.es 1,187,385
10 facebook.com 1,145,011
11 google.co.in 1,121,347
12 wikipedia.org 907,358
13 google.com.co 829,930
14 google.com.ar 824,086
15 ask.com 741,299
16 govdelivery.com 681,224
17 aol.com 626,955
18 state.gov 590,506
19 google.com.ph 537,782
20 googleusercontent.com 516,854
21 google.com.pe 500,595
22 google.cl 468,862
23 google.co.ve 429,493
24 about.com 364,189
25 babycenter.com 353,400

 

 

 

 
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