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CNBC.com has highest May visitors ever

CNBC.com was visited by 8.6 million unique users in May, up 33 percent compared to the same time period last year, according to data from comScore Media Metrix.

This is the site’s best month ever in terms of unique visitors since its launch.

In addition, CNBC’s iPhone application posted 582,000 unique visitors in May, a 2 percent increase year-over-year, according to Omniture.

CNBC mobile web recorded 2.8 million unique visitors for the month, a 1 percent increase year-over-year.

And CNBC’s iPad app posted 424K unique visitors in May, down 5 percent compared to last year.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.