Desktop devices were down, too, but less, at 9%.
HuffingtonPost.com, Aol's traffic juggernaut with 41.7 million monthly unique desktop visitors in December 2014, is down on desktop 20% year over year.
This summer a midwestern bank with roughly 200 servers and 10,000 desktops was shut down for four days when a virus froze its network.
A desktop wasn't a desktop.
I understand that some people are down with wireless desktops, but the lack of lithium batteries and a charging dock is a deal breaker for me.
In Q4, it looks like devices that are closer to tablets in form factor are feeling more pressure than those that are markedly different: mobile PCs (laptops and netbooks) were down by 11%, while desktop PCs were down by 6%.
Moviefone is down nearly 40% on desktop.
Update 2: and it's down again, both on desktop and from the iPhone.
UPDATE: The desktop version is up and down with some parts of the sites still showing that it's down.
Those who are on desktop are more likely to be sitting down, and therefore have more time to read longer messages with links and media and reply to them.
