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CNBC.com posts second-best month in terms of visitors

CNBC.com posted its second-best month ever in terms of unique visitors in August.

The site was visited by 9.3 million unique users in August, up 34 percent compared to the same time period last year. CNBC.com’s year-over-year growth was more than double compared to any other site in the Business/Finance – News/Research category top 10 measured by comScore US Media Metrix.

In addition, CNBC mobile web recorded its best ever monthly unique visitors with 3.3 million, a 44 percent increase year-over-year, according to Omniture.

CNBC’s iPhone application posted 563,000 unique visitors, a 2 percent increase year-over-year.

CNBC’s iPad application posted 402,000 unique visitors for the month.

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.

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