Monthly access count for the Impress Group Web sites surpasses 200 million page views!
Tokyo, April 21, 2005 -- The total monthly access count for Web sites operated by Impress Group(*1) companies owned by Impress Holdings, Inc. (headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President/CEO: Keiichiro Tsukamoto) has surpassed 200 million page views for the first time since the sites began operating.
In addition to Windows Forest, PC Watch, and other sites with popular content and high access counts, Digital Camera Watch, opened in September of last year as a specialized digital camera site, and ThinkIT, launched in November of last year as a corporate system selection portal site with free membership, are both growing rapidly.
In addition, the access counts for the musical instrument information site DiGiMart, which was thoroughly revamped in October 2003, and Enterprise Watch, a site specializing in news on corporate IT products and services launched the same month, continue their steady growth, with access counts growing by 230% from the previous year for DiGiMart and by 140% for Enterprise Watch.
In the future as well, the Impress Group plans to increase the value of each of these sites as specialist media, through promotion of information exchange and communication with readers and related industries, achieved by providing high-quality content and services provided by specialized teams working on each site.
[Access counts for March 2005]
Total monthly access count: 213,033,738 page views
High-growth media:
Digital Camera Watch <http://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/>: Approximately 9.4 million page views
DiGiMart <http://www.digimart.net/>: Approximately 8.4 million page views
Enterprise Watch <http://enterprise.watch.impress.co.jp/>: Approximately 2.2 million page views
ThinkIT <http://www.thinkit.co.jp/>: Approximately 600,000 page views
High access-count media:
Windows Forest <http://www.forest.impress.co.jp/>: Approximately 35.1 million page views
PC Watch <http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/>: Approximately 28 million page views
GAME Watch <http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/>: Approximately 21.5 million page views
* Data source: Valid page views calculated by Impress using Web server log files.
(*1) Impress Group <http://impress.jp/>:
The Impress Group is the media group owned by Impress Holdings, Inc. The twelve group companies (as of April 21, 2005) provide highly specialized information based on the key themes of information technology, medical science, music, and design, developing both digital-media and print-media businesses.
