The 30 most popular newspaper sites

Cory Bergman June 17th, 2007

NYTimes.com leads Nielsen-Netratings’ list of the top newspaper sites in May.

4 Comments Add your own

1. Peter Ralph | June 17th, 2007 at 3:09 pm

Chicago Sun-Times — 1,860 — 0:07:22
Atlanta Journal-Constitution — 1,852 — 0:32:12

so the AJC has a fraction of a percentage point less visitors than the Sun but each visit lasts almost 5 times as long.

And the Sun is ranked higher?

Which traffic pattern would you rather have?

Am I missing something?
2. Mr. Numbers | June 17th, 2007 at 7:42 pm

If you were to ever cast a glance at Nielsen.NetRatings methodology, you would join me in placing no value on their numbers whatsoever. Just their unwillingness to make a since measurement of the at-work audience speaks volumes of the real worth of the “metrics” they are peddling. The fact that Editor and Publisher cites these numbers without qualification speaks to how little that publication understands the web audience. Of course, that’s not surprising since it’s a newspaper trade journal (of sorts).
3. Peter Ralph | June 18th, 2007 at 6:33 am

lostremote is also citing the Nielsen netratings without qualification, as are dozens of other blogs…
4. ! | June 18th, 2007 at 8:47 am

shhh!

nielsen is looking to do to the internets what they did to tv ratings for all them thar years.

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