OPA 08: 47% of weekly unique users to BBC News site are non-UK
Posted on May 15, 2008 - Filed Under Traffic, BBC, Online Journalism, Journalism | Leave a Comment
Pete Clifton, head of editorial development for multimedia journalism at the BBC, has said 47 per cent of the 17 million weekly unique users to the BBC News website come from outside of the UK.
Around half of these users, he told the Online Publishers Association conference, are from the US with a strong ex-pat […]
Media Guardian: 15m UK users visted newspaper, claims ComScore
Posted on May 14, 2008 - Filed Under Editors' pick, Newspapers, Traffic, Online Journalism, Journalism | Leave a Comment
Nearly 15 million people - 44 per cent of UK internet users - visited newspaper sites during March, according to ComScore web metrics.
The Guardian says that ComScore figures suggest that Sun Online was the most visited UK newspaper site by residents of this country, recording 4.3 million unique users, with Guardian.co.uk second with at 3.6 million.
Telegraph.co.uk had 2.8 million users and Times Online 2.6 million.
Read More..>> Full story...Editor&Publisher: Nielsen adds mobile to web metrics
Posted on May 2, 2008 - Filed Under Editors' pick, Mobile, USA, Traffic | Leave a Comment
Nielsen will start measuring traffic generated by mobile devices to internet sites.
A new tool, TotalWeb, will be used to produce unduplicated figures for access to sites via the internet and mobiles.
Yesterday the UK’s Audit Bureau of Circulations Electronic (ABCE) announced plans to add mobile metrics to its audits.
Read More..>> Full story...Birmingham Post sees traffic surge
Posted on April 30, 2008 - Filed Under Newspapers, Traffic | Leave a Comment
Unique users to the Birmingham Post website rose by 72 per cent over the last month, according to the paper’s editor Marc Reeves.
Reeves released the figure for the period of March to April this year in a post to microblogging service Twitter.
The site’s relaunch in February gave the online edition more emphasis on breaking news […]
Media Guardian: Telegraph web traffic boosted by changes to online reporting
Posted on April 29, 2008 - Filed Under Editors' pick, Telegraph, Traffic | Leave a Comment
Strong news stories and improved online production operations were behind the traffic surge to Telegraph.co.uk last month.
The site recorded a 38.69 per cent month-on-month increase in unique users, according to the ABCE figures released last week.
In addition, the site may have been under reporting previous traffic figures, as the result of some pages not being tracked by the measurement tools.
Read More..>> Full story...Guardian: Mirror Group websites join ABCe
Posted on April 23, 2008 - Filed Under Mirror, Editors' pick, Newspapers, Traffic, Online Journalism | Leave a Comment
Mirror Group Newspapers will this week begin reporting traffic to its websites by making public the results of monthly ABCe.
Traffic for the People, Sunday and Daily Mirror will, for the first time, be judged against that of the other leading newspaper brands when the figures are released on Thursday- all accept for the Independent, which still refuses to make its traffic figures public.
According to the Guardian, Trinity Mirror has admitted to having some reservations about the ABCe methodology but is still playing ball.
It expects to record a high percentage of its traffic from a domestic audience - unlike the leading UK newspaper websites of The Guardian and The Mail, which draw the majority of their traffic from overseas.
Read More..>> Full story...Hitwise: The Independent gains online market share in the UK
Posted on April 16, 2008 - Filed Under Independent, Editors' pick, Newspapers, Traffic, Online Journalism | Leave a Comment
The website of The Independent newspaper - one not know for its popularity, sophistication or embracing of the internet - has doubled its share of the UK online market over the last year, according to Hitwise.
“The market share of the UK Independent, which has traditionally lagged behind most of its rivals online, has more doubled over the last twelve months,” wrote Robin Goad, research director, Hitwise UK.
“It was the seventh most visited website in our News and Media (Print section) in March putting it behind the Daily Mail, Times, Sun, Telegraph, Guardian and FT, but ahead of the Mirror and Express”
Hitwise measures the relative success of a website by the share of UK-based internet users it attracts over a given period.
Read More..>> Full story...Associated Newspapers claim monthly reach of 22 million
Posted on April 15, 2008 - Filed Under Newspapers, Traffic | 1 Comment
Associated Newspapers websites and print editions claim to reach a combined audience of 22 million adults a month – 45 per cent of all adults in Great Britain, according to figures released by the group’s digital division today.
The survey of 60,000 readers, which was conducted across Associated Northcliffe Digital’s (AND) network of 38 websites, used […]
Portfolio: WSJ quietly making big traffic strides
Posted on April 14, 2008 - Filed Under Editors' pick, USA, Newspapers, Traffic, Online Journalism | Leave a Comment
Even with a firewall blocking access to large parts of the site for non-subscribers, traffic is still growing at a most impressive for the WSJ - according to its own claims.
According to internal numbers, WSJ.com hosted 15 million unique visitors in March, reports Portfolio, a 175 percent increase over March 2007, Alan Murray, executive editor of the Wall Street Journal Online told it.
Page views came in at around 165 million, up 75 percent year-over-year.
Read More..>> Full story...Press Gazette: News of the World web traffic triples
Posted on April 7, 2008 - Filed Under Editors' pick, Newspapers, Traffic | Leave a Comment
The News of the World website attracted 3.67 million unique users - a 201 per cent year-on-year increase - last month,according to internal figures released by the paper.
The figures, which include traffic to its companion site for Fabulous magazine, have been bolstered by increased broadband penetration in the domestic market, Gary Thompson, senior associate editor
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