Guardian newspaper switches to .com and sees traffic growth

[mdrussell]

http://robbiesblog.com/uk-newspaper-upgrades-com-co-uk-gets-massive-traffic-growth/1879

Pretty huge (and hard to believe) traffic growth. Maybe Compete wasn't correctly analysing .co.uk traffic?

 

[grantw]

As someone has stated in the comments, aren't these figures just based on the increase in traffic to the .com domain and nothing to do with the .co.uk?

Compete.com shows June visitors for guardian.co.uk as 6,375,000, which makes the increase nowhere near as massive as the article suggests!

Grant

 

[namealot]

http://robbiesblog.com/uk-newspaper-upgrades-com-co-uk-gets-massive-traffic-growth/1879

Pretty huge (and hard to believe) traffic growth. Maybe Compete wasn't correctly analysing .co.uk traffic?

You can have all the traffic increase’s you want its pretty easy to manipulate wait and see if there revenue is up in comparison ? I'd doubt that it will be

 

[Retired_Member38]

As someone has stated in the comments, aren't these figures just based on the increase in traffic to the .com domain and nothing to do with the .co.uk?

Compete.com shows June visitors for guardian.co.uk as 6,375,000, which makes the increase nowhere near as massive as the article suggests!

Grant

6.3 to 7.1 million doesn't seem particularly newsworthy. Given the site itself is a newspaper... the Syria stuff and the Guardian being directly involved in the Snowden stuff could easily account for the extra traffic.

 

[Edwin]

It's almost certainly going to be the Snowden stuff. I know I checked more frequently when there was that raft of revelations seemingly every day.

 

[anthony]

6.3 to 7.1 million doesn't seem particularly newsworthy. Given the site itself is a newspaper... the Syria stuff and the Guardian being directly involved in the Snowden stuff could easily account for the extra traffic.

Agreed, it's almost a given.

 

[mdrussell]

As someone has stated in the comments, aren't these figures just based on the increase in traffic to the .com domain and nothing to do with the .co.uk?

Compete.com shows June visitors for guardian.co.uk as 6,375,000, which makes the increase nowhere near as massive as the article suggests!

Grant

I probably should have read the comments