January 16th, 2006
Traffic to Israeli news sites up 63-172%
Number of unique visitors to news sites increased by 63% to 172% on January 5th 2006, the day following Israeli Prime Minister’s stroke and hospitalisation, Nielsen//NetRatings found. January 5th saw the highest number of unique visitors to Israeli news sites since Nielsen//NetRatings started measuring online activity in Israel in 2003. In the following week, daily traffic levels were between 30% and 40% higher than previous three months’ daily average.
Ynet news section saw its traffic increase by 124%; Nana News – by 103%; Haaretz (news section) – by 98%; MSN News – by 92%; Arutz 7 – by 88%. Jerusalem Post, for which most of its traffic is from the USA, has seen a 200% increase in visitors. The increase in visitors is not only limited to news sites. TheMarker, the financial information site, has seen a 52% rise in visitors. Tapuz, the forums portal, experienced a 384% in visitors to its news section.
Alex is a software engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area. ITFacts is created and updated by a group of statistics-obsessed individuals.
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