Online traffic and metrics
The politics of reforming digital audience metrics — don’t underestimate the status quo
Long-time critics of imprecise unique visitor and page view metrics like me have had reason…
Star Tribune runs ad bashing transgender kids
Good morning. Here are 10 media stories. News Corp buys online real estate business: Move,…
In defense of ‘vanity’ metrics: why page views are still important
Editor's note: On Monday, Poynter's Rick Edmonds argued for new ways to measure digital audiences…
Time to ditch uniques and page views for engagement in measuring digital audiences
When Nieman Lab's Josh Benton asked me in December for a New Year's prediction, I…
Three simple Google tools journalists can adopt to draw traffic
Google is increasingly emphasizing the ways it can be of service to the media, and…
News organizations can now see how their content performs on Pinterest
The image-sharing network Pinterest released a new analytics tool this week that serves up lots…
The metrics we really need from Twitter are not the metrics we have
Twitter co-founder Ev Williams acknowledged Monday that available metrics like follower counts are not great…
Study: Smaller news websites depend more on social media for traffic than larger sites
In any local market, the dozens or hundreds of available news websites make up a…
News websites avoid August doldrums to reach record Web traffic
Fishbowl NY | Forbes | Guardian | Mediaite August is traditionally thought to be a…
Website traffic increasingly comes through the ‘side door’ rather than the homepage
Traffic to news websites increasingly comes through the 'side door' rather than through the homepage…
Desktop, laptop use of New York Times’ website drops over two years
People using computers at home and work spent less time on nytimes.com in April and…
Knight News Challenge funds 6 projects focused on networks
The Knight News Challenge is giving more than $1.375 million to six projects that use…
The Atlantic disregards SEO as more traffic comes from social
Mashable Lauren Indvik reports that people at The Atlantic's websites have stopped thinking about SEO so…