Financial Website June Traffic: Yahoo! (YHOO) And AOL Still Out Front

Statistics for June visitors and pageviews at financial websites showed Yahoo! (YHOO) Finance and AOL Money (TWX) well ahead of competitors based on comScore data. Yahoo! had 17.538 million unique visitors followed by AOL at 15,235 million. A fairly distant third among the portals, MSN Money came in with 12.286 million uniques.

Among the large business sites, Dow Jones online was in front with 8.304 unique visitors, followed by Forbes at 5.797 million. CNN Money had 5.218 million unique visitors and TheStreet.com had 4.854 million. Reuters.com was close behind at 4.271 million.

BusinessWeek and Bloomberg were in a dead heat. Bloomberg had 1.812 million unique visitors to BusinessWeek’s 1.916 million.

Personal finance sites SmartMoney had 675,000 unique visitors and Kiplinger had 1.122 million.

Among newer, independent financial sites, SeekingAlpha had 671,000 unique visitors, Minyanville had 116,000, and Street Insider 151,000.

Douglas A. McIntyre