Forex portals total traffic grew 30% during 2010

Once again Arnaud of mataf.net brings us his forex portals traffic statistics and the latest report shows an incredible growth of 30% in visits to all Forex Forex Foreign exchange or forex is the act of converting one nation’s currency into another nation’s currency (that possesses a different currency); for example, the converting of British Pounds into US Dollars, and vice versa. The exchange of currencies can be done over a physical counter, such as at a Bureau de Change, or over the internet via broker platforms, where currency speculation takes place, known as forex trading.The foreign exchange market, by its very nature, is the world’s largest tradi Foreign exchange or forex is the act of converting one nation’s currency into another nation’s currency (that possesses a different currency); for example, the converting of British Pounds into US Dollars, and vice versa. The exchange of currencies can be done over a physical counter, such as at a Bureau de Change, or over the internet via broker platforms, where currency speculation takes place, known as forex trading.The foreign exchange market, by its very nature, is the world’s largest tradi Read this Term portals year on year. The global number of visits has grown from 14.5 million to 18.9 million in one year = +31%.

Biggest gains were:

• Forexpros +184%,
• myfxbook +169%
• forexcrunch +150%
• trader-forex.fr (+25%)
• mataf.net and forexmagnates (+20%)
• forexfactory (+17%)

Looks like most of more mature sites grew less than the average. Global social networks (I don't agree with the term Arnaud uses but still) has grown 68% (double the overall market growth) with myfxbook +169% and currensee 27% contributing to the growth while mt4stats's traffic crashed by 39%.

Biggest 'losers' in traffic were:

• fx360.com (-41%)
• mt4stats (-39%)
• forex-tsd (-26%)
• babypips (-13%)

For rest of the details click here for Arnaud's full post.