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Georgia newspaper put up a paywall & traffic goes up

March 14th, 2011 · No Comments · paywall

The Augusta Chronicle have released a few tidbits of data on the paywall they launched back in December. This newspaper, which bills itself as the oldest Southern paper, is bucking the trend. Page views have risen 5% in the three months since the paywall launched.

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iOS accounts for 2% of web traffic & other reasons not to trust statistics

February 2nd, 2011 · No Comments · opinion

I cam across an interesting chart today which shows that iOS is now generating just over 2% of the world’s traffic on the internet. (I can’t recall where I found it, so if someone could find me the source I’d be grateful.) I was looking at this chart because web traffic has always been an [...]

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Overdrive saw record traffic over Christmas

December 30th, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news

Perhaps that’s why I’ve heard reports that their servers were running slow on the day after Christmas. Anyway, Overdrive have posted some traffic stats for Christmas weekend. This was the first time ever tjat ebook traffic surpassed audiobook. To show you what happened in one month, we’ve compared usage from Nov. 26-28 (around US Thanksgiving) [...]

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Wattpad release Q3 traffic report

November 29th, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news

Watpad have released the Metrics Report for the third quarter 2010. This report analyzes the amount of traffic their site received over the last 3 months. It’s 12 pages long and only slightly denser than a powerpoint, so I’d say it’s worth a read. You can download it here. Here are the highlights: In mobile [...]

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Newspapers’ web traffic is on the rise, profits not

May 25th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Media Week is reporting that the number of unique visitors to newspaper websites grew 10 percent from March to April, reaching 83.7 million. If you just look at the top 10 markets, unique visitors  were up nearly 13 percent in April (over March), reaching 70.8 million. MW alos reported that the top 25 markets showed [...]

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