News site election traffic spikes

From Cnet:

The Washington Post site charted 1.1 million visits, an increase of 98 percent from its daily average, while that of Fox News generated 1.8 million visits--roughly 73 percent more traffic than usual.

Other news companies had similar spikes, with CNN.com receiving 5.6 million hits, a 63 percent increase; The New York Times on the Web reached 944,000 visits, up 32 percent; the Drudge Report garnered 980,000 visits, a 60 percent uptick; and C-SPAN.org received 62,000 visits, a massive 450 percent jump from its daily average.

Another genre of sites attracting large numbers of surfers were Web logs, or blogs, which increasingly flexed their muscles as an emerging source of election-related information throughout the 2004 campaign.

Several well-known blogs led the way, such as Daily Kos, a political-analysis site, which charted 86,000 hits, a 250 percent increase from its historical Tuesday numbers. While ComScore did not have absolute numbers for Wonkette, another politically oriented blog, the research company said the site drew 240 percent more traffic than usual.

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