CNBC digital has record August

CNBC.com had its best August ever in terms of uniques and its best month ever in terms of page views.

According to the latest data from comScore Media Metrix, the site was visited by 7.4 million unique users last month, a 44 percent increase compared to the same time period last year, and recorded 437 million page views, a 58 percent increase year-over-year.

CNBC Mobile Web had its best month ever in terms of both monthly unique visitors and page views.

The site attracted more than 3.3 million uniques, a 124 percent increase compared to the same time period as last year, and posted more than 109 million page views, a 94 percent increase year-over-year, according to Omniture.

CNBC’s iPhone app also had its best month ever in terms of both monthly unique visitors and page views. Year-over-year, the app grew uniques by 28 percent and page views by 144 percent. Additionally, the CNBC iPad app had its best month ever in terms of both page views with 23 million and uniques with 390,000.

CNBC’s Real-Time Android app also scored its best ever page views with 6.3 million and its best ever uniques with 108,000.

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.