Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Unique visits to Kansas City Star web site in October down 30% compared to a year ago

The Kansas City Star web site had 1,775,000 unique visits in October 2009 -- 30% fewer than a year ago, according to the latest Nielsen study reported by Editor & Publisher.

Nationally, news site visits in October were down about a third compared to October last year. The decline is likely due to the 2008 election season, which was in full swing last October.

The October Nielsen numbers for the Star are a big drop from the previous month, as well -- in September 2009, the KC Star site had
2,214,000 unique visits.

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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

It's sort of like when you take a dump. It's only somewhat interesting to take a peak at it for so long. But then the longer it sits there, the uglier it is and the more it stinks.

Anonymous said...

The Chiefs are tanking. The Royals sucked. The two mainstays of the Star outside of crime news (there's still plenty of that...).

Anonymous said...

let's not mention the election.shall we, because that would balance the story

Anonymous said...

Inflated unique numbers because of a big presidential election and the economy tanking. Now that things are back to "normal" the online traffic has significant shrinkage.

Anonymous said...

Anon 2:13 That’s disgusting! Disgustingly funny!

Anonymous said...

Just so we have a little balanced background...Fox News viewership is UP five percent.