For the first time, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) released some statistics on the performance of Yahoo.com since the page’s June overhaul. SVP Tapan Bhat said at the company’s analyst day that so far page views were up nine percent and time spent on Yahoo.com was up 20 percent. How that compares to Yahoo’s expectations is unclear, although there was concern prior to the overhaul that with some redesign prototypes users tended to spend less time on Yahoo.com. The new page includes third-party “apps” that users can add to the home page to get quick access to services from Yahoo and third-party sites — and Bhat said that 40 percent of new home page users were using between 6 and 11 of them. As for monetization, Bhat said that the click-through rates on the main ad on Yahoo.com were up 10 percent.
Since at least April, Yahoo has been talking about creating a single global platform in order to more easily roll out updates to its properties. And, indeed, Bhat also said the company was making progress on that front, noting that by the end of 2010 all of Yahoo’s global home pages would be based off of one code base, down from the current 33. He said that the goal was to have “one global page that feels and acts really local.”

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