Maktoob.com announces 55% increase in audience in six months

The third-party audit certified that Maktoob.com has a total audience of 14.7 million unique users who visited over 323 million web pages in the month of November 2008, making it by far the most visited audited website in the Arab world.

Maktoob.com conducted its first audit in June 2007, which certified that 6,969,475 unique users visited the website that month. The ABC Electronic second certificate issued for Maktoob.com in June 2008 confirms that during the month of April 2008 a total of 9,589,292 unique users visited the site, showing an increase of close to 40 percent in its monthly audience, within the span of a year. Now, the third audit confirms that Maktoob.com has 14.7 million unique visitors with a daily average of 10.7 million page views, representing a 55% increase in just 6 months.

ABC Electronic independently verifies and reports on media performance, providing the online media industry with a major, trusted currency on which media space can be traded, and delivers an independent assurance that a website is attracting the size of audience it claims.

"We are proud to continue being the most popular web portal in the Middle East, the world's fastest growing Internet market," said Ahmed Nassef, Vice President of the Maktoob Group and General Manager of Maktoob.com. "We constantly strive to provide our growing audience of millions with world-class Arabic-language content and the latest in social media and online community tools. This latest audit confirms that we are on the right track."

Hussein Freijeh, Advertising Sales Director at Maktoob.com said: "The ABC Electronic audit result is very encouraging. It reveals that the Internet is now a mass medium facilitating reach to millions of consumers in the Arab world. The audit figures will also serve to justify a major boost in advertising spend on online advertising."