More than 80% of top US newspaper sites experienced increased unique visitors since year-on-year since June 2007. Nielsen published a report on the average times that users spend on newspaper sites.

Time that users spent online grew for sites like the New York Times, USA Today, Newsday and Ottoway Newspapers. Time spent online nearly doubled for the Houston Chronicle,  the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

However, a decrease was seen on the Wall Street Journal, the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times. Furthemore, nearly half of the top 30 sites reported a decline in time spent on their sites.

Below is the list of the time that users spent in June 2008, compared to June 2007, taken from Editor & Publisher:

NYTimes.com -- 0:29:00 -- 0:27:34
USATODAY.com -- 0:14:38 -- 0:12:45
washingtonpost.com -- 0:14:45 -- 0:18:34
Wall Street Journal Online -- 0:09:41 -- 0:15:57
LA Times -- 0:08:59 -- 0:10:24

Boston.com -- 0:08:24 -- 0:18:47
Chicago Tribune -- 0:07:30 -- 0:18:38
New York Post -- 0:06:45 -- 0:07:14
Daily News Online Edition -- 0:07:01 -- 0:05:34
SFGate.com/San Francisco Chronicle -- 0:15:37 -- 0:12:18

Newsday -- 0:04:03 -- 0:03:46
Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- 0:12:48 -- 0:21:12
Chicago Sun-Times -- 0:08:11 -- 0:07:20
International Herald Tribune -- 0:04:00 -- 0:02:12
The Politico -- 0:09:40 -- 0:05:04

Village Voice Media -- 0:03:45 -- 0:04:16
DallasNews.com - The Dallas Morning News -- 0:05:18 -- 0:04:55
The Houston Chronicle -- 0:29:50 -- 0:16:00
Seattle Post-Intelligencer -- 0:11:02 -- 0:06:01
The Seattle Times -- 0:09:10 -- 0:11:33

Star Tribune -- 0:30:18 -- 0:31:00
MercuryNews.com -- 0:04:03 -- 0:07:21
Azcentral.com -- 0:23:07 -- 0:26:28
tampabay.com -- 0:06:48 -- 0:09:39
MLive.com -- 0:05:27 -- 0:14:01

The San Diego Union-Tribune -- 0:04:08 -- 0:06:58
NJ.com -- 0:10:24 -- 0:07:25
Ottaway Newspapers -- 0:05:22 -- 0:04:41
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel -- 0:30:27 -- 0:17:54
KansasCity.com -- 0:07:39 -- 0:10:51

Source: Editor & Publisher