Nieman Journalism Lab: Link from Yahoo breaks traffic records at New York Times
Monday, 29 June 2009, 15:08
"A link at the top of [Yahoo]’s front page helped send more than 9 million page views to The New York Times in the span of two hours last week, breaking records for web traffic at the newspaper. … But as we’ve seen with other news sites, the huge spike didn’t produce much advertising revenue — or, at least, not the copious coin you might expect from traffic at a rate of 7,300 hits per second. That’s because the Times could only serve cheap, remnant ads to its unanticipated visitors."
CNET News: Debate: Can the Internet handle big breaking news?
Monday, 29 June 2009, 11:42
"It happens time and time again: when news breaks, the Internet slows. …"
Wednesday, 12 March 2008, 00:06
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"Web site traffic between 2-4 pm was a whopping 60% higher that during the same time frame last Monday; meanwhile, NYT mobile almost doubled its traffic for the same time period."
Saturday, 1 September 2007, 10:22
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"We are where you want to find us. We don’t define ourselves as print," [New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr] said. "We’re getting out of the mind-set that we snap a picture of the world (at a certain time) and present it to you (the next day)."
Saturday, 1 September 2007, 10:07
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Traffic to ThisIsGloucestershire spiked to 200K visits (?) in July, and ThisIsHull spiked to 180K in July — double the average for both sites over the previous six months, according to AND.
Saturday, 18 August 2007, 11:30
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"The New York Times again tops newspaper Web sites in terms of traffic for July, according to the latest data from Nielsen//Net Ratings."
Tuesday, 3 July 2007, 17:55
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"UK unique user numbers for bbc.co.uk have increased from 12.3m in 2005/6 to 14.8m this year and global unique users are up from 24.3m to 28.3m."
Sunday, 1 July 2007, 03:07
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Alexa stats (usual disclaimer apply) suggest TechCrunch gets nearly as much traffic as the Guardian. Stephen Davies "Here’s a team of three (I think) compared alongside two national titles consisting of streams of professional journalists."
Thursday, 31 May 2007, 15:51
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"A ComScore study of traffic to the websites of 13 UK media organisations shows that the Daily Mail derives 69% of its unique users from overseas, the FT 85% and the Independent 73%."
