The Newspaper Society today (11 August) published a series of figures for local media titles covering the recent riots across England. According to the NS, many news sites saw record traffic levels as the public swarmed to their local paper’s for the latest updates on the violence.
Some of the highest online statistics from the NS report are below:
- The Liverpool Echo: Initial story on the riots recorded 850,000 page views. Said to be most-read story on the Trinity Mirror Regionals network. Live blog on Tuesday and Wednesday viewed by more than 85,000 people. Overall website recorded around 3 million page views and 400,000 unique users over the two days.
- Express and Star: On Tuesday its website recorded 853,000 homepage views.
- The Enfield Independent: Recorded 203,000 page views on site in 24 hours on Sunday.
- The Nottingham Post: 120,000 unique users (also on Tuesday), said to be three times the normal level of traffic. Monday night’s lead report attracted 64,000 page views while picture gallery of aftermath received 120,000 page views.
- This is Gloucestershire: Two picture galleries containing reader-submitted photos received more than 473,000 page views, as of 2pm Wednesday.
- The Birmingham Mail: More than 100,000 unique users on Tuesday, with page views up more than 300 per cent on average levels.
Read the full statistics here…