Leela de Kretser, the managing editor of Reuters.com, has started sending out a daily email to the editorial staff to let them know what stories are getting the most traffic.
Here is Tuesday’s email:
Here starts the first of a daily traffic report from Reuters.com:
We had an excellent day yesterday, particularly on mobile, where we had the 4th highest visitors ever to Reuters.com. While bacon angst was a clear standout with nearly 300,000 views, we had and a number of other high traffic stories yesterday. Please see attached for the Top 25. Great day! Yay!
Desktop: +46% Compared to same day a week ago
842K visits
1.36M views
Mobile: +76% Compared to same day a week
671K visits
906K views
App: +15% Compared to same day a week
535K visits
721K views
Title Author Views Shares 1 Processed meat can cause cancer, red meat probably can: WHO Gus Trompiz 284,161 19,516 2 Big quake in Afghanistan and Pakistan kills over 200 Krista Mahr and Jibran Ahmad 145,349 1,696 3 No joke: Guatemalan comedian wins presidency in landslide Alexandra Alper 120,610 1,354 4 U.S. Navy to send destroyer within 12 miles of Chinese islands Staff 67,391 3,557 5 Bail set at $1 million for Oklahoma woman charged with plowing into crowd Lenzy Krehbiel-Burton 36,879 580
