AskMen.com Reaches Record Traffic Highs For January 2005

Mens lifestyle website receives over 65 million page views and 7 million unique visitors.

Montreal, Quebec, Canada (PRWEB) February 16, 2005 -- AskMen.com (http://www.askmen.com), the leader in online mens lifestyle (http://www.askmen.com) content, made a milestone announcement today with the release of record traffic numbers for the month of January 2005.

On the heels of a strong finish to 2004, with over 17 million unique visitors to the site in Q4, a good January was made even better with the immense popularity of several new content features such as the Video Clip of the Day, Tech Invention of the Day, as well as content from new partners such as HowStuffWorks.com and Nerve.com. In addition, the release of the 2005 edition of the Top 99 Most Desirable Women (http://www.askmen.com/specials/2005_top_99/index.html) on January 25 did enough to not just surpass previous highs for overall page views and unique visitors for the site, but smash them.

This is a wonderful start to the year for us," says Ricardo Poupada, President and Editor in Chief of AskMen.com. We put a lot of pressure on ourselves to grow traffic and January shows we are heading in the right direction. Our efforts in 2005 will focus on solidifying our position in the mens lifestyle space and becoming everyones No. 1 destination for male-oriented content outside of sports and finance."

The impressive page view and unique visitor totals cast a shadow on some other milestone numbers for the month. In addition to the 7 million unique visitors to AskMen.com, there were also 9.6 million total visitors (with duplicates) for January, over 1.2 million bookmarks and just shy of 1 million searches on the site. Page views per unique visitor and average time per visit also saw significant increases over the previous month.

About AskMen.com

AskMen.com is the leading website for men in the world, averaging over 5 million unique monthly readers. A foremost content provider with an archive of over 11,000 articles available for free online, AskMen.com updates daily and features over 200 new articles a month across a variety of sections: Dating & Love, Sexuality, Celebrity Profiles & Interviews, Health & Sports, Fashion & Lifestyle, Power & Money, and Entertainment. AskMen.com also publishes daily features such as the Cool Site of the Day, Joke of the Day, Fact of the Day, Quote of the Day, Question of the Day, Video of the Day, and Gadget of the Day. The annual Top 99 Most Desirable Women feature is a popular draw on the site.

AskMen.com hosts an active and popular online community with over 25,000 members. A recent competitive analysis by HitWise concluded that AskMen.com has a 34.58% market share of all Web surfers with an interest in men's lifestyle content. AskMen.com has had content partnerships with the likes of MSN, AOL, Netscape, CompuServe, Univision, Overture, Lycos Asia, and more. For more information, visit http://www.askmen.com/.

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