Mark Stenberg of Adweek writes about how a redesign of tech news site The Verge is helping it convert readers into loyal users.
Stenberg writes, “From January to September, The Verge saw its readership increase 15%, according to Patel. In the same timeframe, its loyal user base, which it defines as a reader who visits the site at least five times per month, increased 62%. (Twitter, now X, has lost 13% of its daily active users since Elon Musk bought the platform in October 2022, per Apptopia).
“‘Our total user base is growing, but specifically, the user base is shifting to loyal readers,’ said Helen Havlak, the publisher of The Verge. ‘So, the site is doing a great job of converting fly-by readers into loyal readers.’
“Despite these increases, in the months following the September 2022 redesign, The Verge saw year-over-year traffic decrease every month except for June 2023, according to Comscore. From September 2021 to August 2022, the publisher averaged 17.3 million visitors per month, per Comscore. From September 2022, when the redesign occurred, to August 2023, the site averaged 11 million monthly visitors.”
Read more here.
