Why do people visit the top 10 Quantcast sites?

My friend Nicholas Mac Connell says that, “People read to answer questions.” Maybe this also explains why people visit the 10 most popular websites according to Quantcast.

Here are the questions that I think the top 10 websites answer.

1 What answer?
2 What story?
3 What person?
4 What news?
5 What answer?
6 What news?
7 What tool?
8 What person?
9 What trade / deal?
10 What opinion?

After adjusting for duplicates, we get the seven (7) most popular questions in the U.S. that drive people to websites on both desktop and mobile devices:

  1. what answers?
  2. what news?
  3. what people?
  4. what stories?
  5. what tools?
  6. what trades / deals?
  7. what opinions?

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