News’ Site Up 22%
Scary headlines must work. Personally, I find the News’ site almost impossible to navigate, but that’s just me. A new report on web traffic at metro newspapers from Editor & Publisher says it is doing quite well, thank you. The stats after the jump:
LA Times — 4,607 — (-6.4%)
Boston.com — 4,364 — 15.0%
Chicago Tribune — 3,891 — 14.0%
Daily News Online Edition — 2,956 — 23.2%
New York Post — 2,851 — (-5.7%)
SFGate.com/San Francisco Chronicle — 2,785 — (-30.9%)
Philly.com — 2,300 — 33.4%
International Herald Tribune — 2,250 — 14.9%
Village Voice Media — 2,224 — 70.6%
Chicago Sun-Times — 2,186 — 8.3%
Atlanta Journal-Constitution — 1,974 — 26.2%
The Houston Chronicle — 1,946 — (-18.6%)
The Seattle Times — 1,840 — (-19.3%)
DallasNews.com - The Dallas Morning News — 1,828 — 21.9%
Seattle Post-Intelligencer — 1,785 — (-0.1%)
The Politico — 1,672 — N/A
Orlando Sentinel — 1,522 — 78.6%
NJ.com — 1,455 — 40.1%
Azcentral.com — 1,435 — (-36.6%)
Baltimore Sun — 1,332 — 26.2%
MercuryNews.com — 1,315 — (-15.1%)
The Detroit News — 1,256 — 21.4%
The San Diego Union-Tribune — 1,180 — 10.4%
Detroit Free Press — 1,168 — (-22.9%)
The Washington Times — 1,161 — (-24.9%)
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Does this mean they will have even more pop-up advertisements?
it ain’t just you…
For the record, the number after the publication name is the number of unique visitors in thousands, apparently on a monthly basis.
Wick, you’re right. Dallasnews.com is impossible to navigate and find anything other than what’s in the front page of any section. I suggest an RSS reader like Google Reader, NetNewsWire or FeedDaemon. Seems to take care of that popups issue as well.
At one point I heard two-thirds of their visitors were from outside the DFW market area. Does anyone know if that’s true?
“I heard two-thirds of their visitors were from outside the DFW”
well I live in Virginia and regularly visit the website since I’m a native Dallasite
Depending on when and how these measurements were taken, the increase in traffic may be a result of the News’ decision to terminate both the paid and non-paid portions of cowboysplus.com.
I do not understand how consultants, anyone, hasn’t figured out the right way to tell DMN management that their site is the worst of any major daily. If they need a good example, see the NY Times or MSNBC.com.
Yall keep linking us to the good stuff and we won’t have to navigate the site.