US: Visits to newspaper websites increases

Posted by Erica Mutschler on October 31, 2007 at 1:49 PM

According to an industry group study the number of visitors to U.S. newspaper websites is on the rise. The study reported that during the third quarter the number of visitors increased by 3.7 percent.

According to the Newspaper Association of America, a total number of 59 million Internet users visited newspaper websites during the quarter, an increase from 56.9 million a year ago. Currently 59 million people constitute 37.1 percent of all active Internet users. The survey also found that Internet users spend an average of 43 minutes per month on Newspaper websites, showing a four percent increase from last year. The association plans to release all results today.

Source: EJC.net

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