Results from Alexa.com

The Rip Curl Pro Portugal 2009 looks to have set a new high of online traffic, according to results published via online monitoring tool Alexa. Comparisons of the primary events URL’s used by the major event broadcasters, billabongpro.com, quiksilverlive.com, hurley.com, aspworltour.com and ripcurl.com, shows a significant spike in traffic to the now famed Search event.

Locals Always Rule The Line Up

The Portuguese have not only showed up in numbers at the event site, but more so online, jumping to the second highest geographic logging in to watch the live action. Usually ranking in the later part of the top 10, Portuguese traffic to ripcurl.com has muscled it’s way into the 2^nd top spot, accounting 12.8% of total traffic, second only to the mighty stars and stripes.

Notable mention must go to Brazil, moving into 3^rd place. Adriano is certainly flying that flag high.

Learning To Let Go.

We’ve heard quite a bit about the ownership of the media rights as of late, the sponsors own it. ASP doesn’t. So it’s understandable the sponsors have been reluctant to let go of their baby. So it’s been interesting / long over due / refreshing to have the addition of media partners such as FuelTV (TV and Web), and Hurley’s flirtation with Facebook (which was a real winner as they have more friends than all of us combined). Web rankings will be diluted with the extra fingers in the pie, but as long as they start getting the numbers to attract more viewers, then who’s complaining. As long the extra numbers don’t turn up in the line up.

The Only Way Is Up

The webcasts and viewing options are slowly getting better, the online viewers is growing, everything is moving in the right direction. Let’s see this new website. The numbers are starting to add up.

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