CNBC.com website posts best June ever

CNBC.com posted its best June ever and second best month ever in terms of unique visitors.

The site was visited by 8.5 million unique users in June, up 23 percent compared to the same time period last year, according to comScore Media Metrix. This is the fourth consecutive month of year-over-year unique growth for the site.

Meanwhile, CNBC’s iPhone application posted 571,000 unique visitors during the month, a 2 percent increase year-over-year, according to Omniture.

CNBC mobile website recorded 2.9 million unique visitors, a 4 percent increase year-over-year.

However, CNBC’s iPad application posted 404,000 unique visitors for the month, 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.