Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Royal Baby Birth Bumps Up U.K. Website Hits


The Daily Mail's site even drew its biggest audience ever on Monday driven by the birth, the Guardian reported.

The tabloid site recorded nearly 10.6 million unique visitors on Monday, the paper said citing first internal estimates. That would be 1 million more than its previous record set amid the Boston marathon bombings in April. Monday also saw the Mail's site hit its biggest-ever hour of traffic with 1.09 million unique users just after the birth was announced.

Overall, U.K. Internet traffic to news and media sites reached 94 million unique visitors on Monday, besting the average of 64 million. The Boston marathon bombings had drawn 85 million.

Read More Now

No comments:

Post a Comment