TechCrunch reports that yesterday CNN had 27 million unique visitors to their site and generated 276 million page views.  I haven’t seen figures for other news sites yet.  But when I consider that CNN had more than 5 times their normal traffic and dished up 8x their average page views, it hits me that it must really stink to be a newspaper publisher right about now.

Update, 1:15 - Last night, major news sites collectively handled 8.5 million visitors per minute.  Good thing for me that I just looked at lolcats instead.

Submitted by: Dan Giancaterino, Internet Librarian
on November 05, 2008 - 9:02 am

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