"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."

"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)."

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.

"The New York Times again tops newspaper Web sites in terms of traffic for July, according to the latest data from Nielsen//Net Ratings."

"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."

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."

"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%."