Top 30 newspaper sites experience strong growth

By Reynolds Staff on Apr 21, 2009 in Basics, Uncategorized

Editor & Publisher today released its monthly compilation of newspaper website statistics. In March, about three quarters of the top 30 sites experienced double-digit year-over-year growth in unique visitors.
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, which went online-only in March, was one exception.

Seattlepi.com fell to No. 32 with 1.4 million unique users, down 23% compared to March 2008. In February, the site was ahead of its then-joint operating agreement sister The Seattle Times. Seattlepi.com had 1.8 million uniques, while the Seattle Times had 1.5 million in February.
The Seattle Times picked up online readers as well. In March, the site recorded year-over-year growth of 70% to 2.2 million unique.

The New York Times stayed in first place, up 7% year-to-year with more than 20 million unique users. This was more than double that of second place USA Today, which saw its audience fall 7% year-to-year.

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