The Email Wars

I found this article about web mail stats. Now this is a study of use and totals, but may not be reflective of your own subscriber base. So take it with a grain of salt.

Yahoo Email Dominates Web-Mail Landscape

Yahoo’s email service dominates the web-mail market with the highest number of email users, monthly minutes spent per user and times users check mail, according to data from comScore, writes MarketingCharts (via a New York Times blog post by reporter Saul Hansell).

View chart of the four major email service providers’ total unique visitors, Aug. ‘07 vs. Aug. ‘08.

AOL’s email also appears to be holding its own with its user numbers, while Gmail is increasing its number of users but lagging behind other web-mail providers in how often users check mail and how much time they spend on the site.

Here is the full article on email web client use.