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Online Newspaper Audience Surges in First Quarter


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More than 59 million people (37.6 percent of all active internet users) visited newspaper websites on average during the first quarter of 2007, a record number that represents a 5.3 percent increase over the same period a year ago, according to custom analysis provided by Nielsen/NetRatings for the Newspaper Association of America.

In addition, newspaper website visitors generated nearly three billion page views per month throughout the quarter, compared to just under 2.7 billion during the same period last year. The first quarter figures are the highest for any quarter since NAA began tracking these numbers in 2004.

Users continued to increase the amount of time they spend on newspaper websites with the average visitor spending more than 45 minutes per month during the quarter, an 11.5 percent increase over this time last year.

Paradoxically, growth in newspapers’ online ad revenue slowed in the first quarter.

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