The following is data from Nielsen Online on the top 30 sites in the "News" category based on February 2008 traffic. This data takes into account U.S. home and work Internet usage, and it shows both unique visitors to each brand or channel and sessions per person. For more information about the sourcing of this data, please visit www.netratings.com.
Nielsen Online is providing these data sets to the Newspaper Association of America on a monthly basis.
Top 30 Online Current Events & Global News Destinations, ranked by Sessions per Person
Brand or channel; sessions per person; unique audience (000)
1. drudgereport.com; 19.9; 3,445
2. Daily Kos^; 8.9; 1,204
3. Fox News Digital Network; 8.3; 10,177
4. CNN Digital Network; 7.9; 37,181
5. AOL News; 7.7; 21,119
6. Yahoo! News; 7.4; 35,274
7. MSNBC Digital Network; 6.4; 34,013
8. ksl.com^; 6.0; 796
9. Breitbart.com; 5.3; 2,674
10. Google News; 5.3; 12,050
11. Gannett Newspapers and Newspaper Division; 5.1; 13,998
12. NYTimes.com; 4.9; 18,975
13. Netscape; 4.8; 2,709
14. Townhall.com; 4.7; 1,152
15. Media General Newspapers; 4.6; 1,761
16. GTGI Network 4.5; 1,345
17. Star Tribune; 4.3; 2,108
18. TWC News Websites; 4.1; 840
19. NewsMax.com; 4.0; 4,054
20. Zwire^; 3.9; 1,089
21. Cox Newspapers; 3.9; 5,197
22. washingtonpost.com; 3.8; 10,441
23. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 3.8; 1,259
24. The Buffalo News^; 3.7; 502
25. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; 3.6; 1,472
26. MediaNews Group Newspapers; 3.5; 5,850
27. USATODAY.com; 3.5; 10,571
28. WorldNow 3.5; 10,588
29. IB Websites; 3.4; 7,565
30. St. Louis Post Dispatch^; 3.4; 1,022
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The fact that "DailyKooks" ... (Below threshold)1. Posted by Bob | March 25, 2008 2:55 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
The fact that "DailyKooks" is even on this list is really scary and disturbing.
1. Posted by Bob | March 25, 2008 2:55 PM |
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Posted on March 25, 2008 14:55
2. Posted by bryanD | March 25, 2008 10:12 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I've hated Nielson "families" ever since they had Kolchak: The Night Stalker cancelled in the mid-1970s.
As for drudgereport.com: no surprise there: log in/log off = session (burp!). I try to abstain from too much Fruit.
Speaking of drudge: his auto-refresh mechanism has always seemed fishy to me, seeing how the page headlines might not change for 48 hours on weekends (and drudge is behind teevee otherwise) yet auto-refresh chugs along. Does auto-refresh count as page views? Just wondering.
"23. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 3.8; 1,259"
Another Nielson Family atrocity. Unless the MJS has a kick-ass Beer section or a daily local Polish-American page 3 girl feature.
2. Posted by bryanD | March 25, 2008 10:12 PM |
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Posted on March 25, 2008 22:12