Friday, July 08, 2005
World Flocks to UK News Websites
Source: Media Guardian News websites accounted for 5.6% of all online traffic yesterday, up nearly 50% on the previous day. BBC News was the most visited site, while the Guardian was the most popular newspaper website in terms of page impressions.
Sky News saw one of the dramatic rises in traffic, rising more than 300 places in the overall web rankings to become the 62nd most visited website yesterday.
BBC News accounted for 28.6% of all news page impressions in the UK yesterday. Sky News was in third place with 3.8%, and Guardian Unlimited fifth with 2.4%. The Sun was the eighth most popular news destination, with a 1.4% share, narrowly behind CNN.com.
As well as being the top news destination, BBC News was also the sixth most popular website in the UK yesterday, up from 15th position on Wednesday.
# posted by ATN @ 11:06 AM 
