CNBC.com has record January for visitors

CNBC.com posted its best January ever in terms of unique visitors, according to comScore Media Metrix.

The site was visited by 8.7 million unique users last month, up 31 percent compared to the same time period last year.

CNBC.com’s total unique video viewer volume reached a record high of 3.1 million in January, up 247 percent year-over-year.

In addition, CNBC mobile web recorded its highest monthly unique visitors – 6.3 million, up 139 percent year-over-year — in January, according to Omniture.

On the heels of its relaunch, CNBC’s Android application was up 30 percent year-over-year in monthly unique visitors, and January was its second best month ever in terms of this metric.

CNBC’s iPad app posted 451,000 unique visitors, flat compared to last year at this time.

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.