Bigmir-Internet altered the base for estimating Internet audience in Ukraine and recorded 24.853 million of Internet users in March, the company reports.
Internet audience is identified by number of unique users visiting at least one web page during a month, and those who used to surf Internet in a given and previous month.
Bigmir-Internet introduced a new geographic base for IP addresses in March that made it possible to identify Internet users with Ukrainian IP addresses more exactly.
The base the company used by March 10 identified 30% of IP addresses as other regions but Ukraine, while the newly applied system refers only 5% of IP addresses to other regions, and 25% are defined as Ukrainian ones, the company said.
The average of 10.3154 million people went on Internet weekly in March, while the average daily visitors reached 3.330 million. They spent 3.24 minutes on Internet on average.
On the whole, Internet users spent 3.845 billion minutes visiting Internet websites in March. Kyiv holds the lead among Internet audience with 58.02% of the total (however, the company refers all Ukrtelecom users to Kyiv region).
The most active Internet audience was in Donetsk (6.23%), Kharkiv (5.73%) ad Odesa (4.86%) regions.
The least active audience was recorded in Chernivtsi (0.33%), Ivano-Frankivsk (0.22%) and Zhytomyr (0.17%) regions.
The most popular browser for the Ukrainian Internet customers in March was Opera 9.x (31.22%). Google.com (59.98% of all site shifts) maintained the lead among Internet search engines to Ukrainian websites.
The March leaders in search queries are avtobazar, news from Ukraine, ukr.net, news, and weather.
As Ukrainian News reported, in February, number of Internet users in Ukraine rose by 2.4% or 380,000 people to 16.215 million people.
The Bigmir-Internet company is an Internet branch of the Ukrainian KP Media holding company. The company started to operate in December 1999 under the trade mark of SputnikMedia.net. In August 2006 it was renamed Bigmir-Internet.
