Report: Facebook Overtakes MySpace in U.S. Web Traffic

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on June 15, 2009 - 11:47am.

Palo Alto, Calif. - Facebook surpassed News Corp.'s (NYSE: NWS) MySpace in U.S. Web traffic for the first time ever in the month of May, TechCrunch reported, citing data from Internet audience measurement firm comScore. Facebook counted 70.278 million unique visitors last month, compared to MySpace's 70.255 million.

The numbers represent a 2.8 million increase in visitors to Facebook, and a decline of 700,000 to MySpace during the month.

Facebook passed MySpace in worldwide visitors in April 2008.