MEDICA Internet Portal Registers over 1 Million Visits for the First Time

ComPaMED Portal also Boasts an Excellent Start Internet – an ever more important tool for preparing the trade fair (RTF download at the bottom of this page) For the first time ever, the portal MEDICA.de (http://www.medica.de), the joint Internet website for the world’s largest medical trade fair MEDICA and for the MEDICA Congress, succeeded in reaching over one million Internet users in 2005. 1.15 million visits and 9.39 million page impressions represent a 23 % and 19 % increase over the previous year. The highest daily figures ever recorded by the servers of Messe Düsseldorf across all its trade fair projects amounted to 25,397 hits and 347,000 page impressions on 14 November 2005. “These figures recorded two days before the opening of the fair confirm the outstanding importance and operational excellence of the MEDICA portal in terms of planning and structuring people’s visits to the fair,” said Wilhelm Niedergöker, Managing Director of Messe Düsseldorf, commenting on the high acceptance of the Internet services. He then went on to pay visitors a compliment: “The 137,122 trade visitors of MEDICA 2005 were real professionals. According to our Internet statistics they came as well prepared as ever heading for the ranges on display in the various themed segments in a very targeted manner.”