Médiamétrie: One in three French visited at least one sports website in June 2014

In France, 20.6m users visited at least once a sports website in June 2014, announced Médiamétrie, the audience measurement institute, on 21/08/2014. This represents approximately one in three French (65.8m French citizens were recorded by INSEE on 01/01/2014).

On average, 4.2m French users logged in each day on a sport website in June 2014, a 5.3% increase compared to May 2014 (4m users). Each user visited on average 81 pages and spent 1h34 on sports websites in June 2014. Sports websites "benefited from by the 2014 World Cup in Brazil (from 12/06 to 13/07/2014)", explained Médiamétrie.

FIFA's (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) website, for example, was visited by 2.3m unique visitors in France in June 2014, compared to 629,000 the previous months (3.65 times less).

In June 2014, the audience record (5.3m French users) was registered on 26/06/2014, the day after the final group phase game between France and Ecuador (0-0, group E), and the same day of the group phase fixture Algeria-Russia (1-1, group H).

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