MUMBAI: Online competitive intelligence service Hitwise has announced that the music based reality show American Idol‘s site, www.americanidol.com, was the most visited broadcast network television show website in the US among a category of selected shows from the six broadcast networks for the week ending 28 April.

Among the custom category of more than 100 television show websites, AmericanIdol.com received 32.96 per cent of all US visits to websites within the category.

NBC‘s Deal or No Deal site with 12.33 per cent received the second largest percentage of US visits. Then comes ABC‘s Dancing with the Stars site that received 9.31 per cent of visits while ABC‘s Grey‘s Anatomy site received 3.23 percent of visits. NBC‘s Heroes website rounded out the top five visited shows receiving 3.15 per cent of visits.

The results are from a weekly Hitwise Conversions report that ranks the selected broadcast network television show websites, whether it is a stand-alone site such as American Idol or a section within a larger website such as Deal or No Deal. The show websites are ranked by market share of US visits among all the websites included.