The number of visitors to Web-based e-mail sites, like Gmail and Yahoo mail, declined 5.9 percent from November 2009 to November 2010, according to comScore, a firm that tracks Internet traffic. That decline reflects the spread of mobile e-mail devices like iPhones, which do not need to log onto the Web to see messages; the number of people who check e-mail almost daily on a mobile device rose 40 percent in the same period.
But comScore’s numbers also confirm that the youngest Internet users are abandoning e-mail. Twenty-four percent fewer people age 12 to 17 used Web-based e-mail in November 2010 than did in November 2009, even as the number of users 55 and over continued to rise.
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