In today’s tough market the goal of every job board is to increase traffic statistics. More visitors are equal more money they can charge for advertisement and more companies choosing them to post jobs. In my quite recent post I already mentioned big mismatch between official press releases and stats published by internet analysts.
This time I will add 2 more set of numbers that just become public.

According to Nielsen-netratings for the week ending January 8, 2008 standings are:
1. CareerBuilder - 5.6 million users
2. Monster - 5.3
3. HotJobs - 3.3

According to Hitwise situation is quite different. By the end of January standings are:
1. CareerBuilder - 12.96% market share
2. HotJobs - 11.18%
3. Monster - 4.32%

HotJobs marker share is comparable with one for CareerBuilder? Who are they kidding? Monster having only around 1/3 from CareerBuilder’s market size is just not true.

Let’s see… Hitwise is a subsidiary of Experian. Easy googling tells us that “Experian has been the exclusive provider of credit reports, content and resources in Yahoo! Finance”, “Experian Automotive the leading provider of vehicle history reports for Yahoo! Autos”, “Experian Selected by Yahoo! PayDirect to Authenticate Consumers Online”. Sounds like they are good partners.