Online Newspapers Enjoy Double-Digit Growth
Online Newspapers Enjoy Double-Digit Year-Over-Year Growth, Reaching One out of Four Internet Users, According to Nielsen//NetRatings
Nielsen//NetRatings reported that newspaper Web sites grew 11 percent year-over-year to 39.3 million unique visitors in October 2005, comprising 26 percent of the active U.S. Internet population, or one out of every four Internet users. The 11 percent increase exceeds the growth of the active Internet universe as a whole, which rose three percent year-over-year.
NYTimes.com was the top U.S. online newspaper site, with 11.4 million unique visitors in October 2005. USATODAY.com and WashingtonPost.com took the No. 2 and 3 spots with 10.4 and 8.1 million unique visitors, respectively. LATimes and SFGate.com rounded out the top five with 3.9 million unique visitors each.
Top 5 Newspaper Web Sites* (Non-Aggregated Brands), October 2005 (U.S.)
| Newspaper Site | Unique Audience (000) | Active Reach (%) | Year-over-Year Change |
| NYTimes.com | 11,405 | 7.50 | 15% |
| USATODAY.com | 10,361 | 6.81 | 8% |
| WashingtonPost.com | 8,067 | 5.31 | 28% |
| LA Times | 3,934 | 2.59 | 23% |
| SFGate.com/San Francisco Chronicle | 3,922 | 2.58 | 4% |
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