CNBC.com posts best October for visits

Business news site CNBC.com posted its best October ever and its second best month ever in terms of unique visitors.

The site was visited by 9.4 million unique users in October, up 12 percent compared to the same time period last year, according to comScore Media Metrix.

In addition, the CNBC mobile web recorded its highest monthly unique visitors ever with 4.4 million, up 50 percent year-over-year and up 31 percent from the previous high that was recorded in August, according to Omniture.

In addition, CNBC’s iPhone App posted 597,000 unique visitors for the month. And its iPad app posted 422,000 unique visitors, according to Omniture. Comparable data is not available because there was a tracking glitch in the Omniture system for apps 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.