MySpace is Now Officially Huger Than Everyone

According to HitWise data released today, Myspace is now the most-visited site on the web. The social networking site accounts for a whopping 4.45% of all browser traffic in the United States. Those are some huge numbers -- more than eBay and Google, which is the next-most-popular at 3.89%. Yahoo is begging the ref for a yellow card, as reported by DailyTech's Brandon Hill:

Yahoo! ...says that Hitwise ranks its domains which include search, news, and e-mail as separate entities. "When taking into account all of Yahoo!'s domains together as an entire network, Yahoo! clearly remains the number one property in terms of audience share, duration share, page view share and days visited per month," said the company in a news release.

Reuters is reporting that MySpace also currently commands 80 percent of social networking traffic. Just out of curiosity, I've run a little Alexaholic social networking chart that compares MySpace to Orkut, Friendster and Facebook:

MySpace is in blue, and you can see that it's head and shoulders above all the others. Orkut (in brownish-olive) is growing, but I don't think there's much of a chance that Orkut's traffic is ever going to get close to MySpace. Unless, of course, MySpace suddenly decides to ban Brazillians or something.