Categories: OLD Media Moves

Record day for business news sites

The turmoil in the stock market on Thursday afternoon led to record hits and views for many financial news Web sites and mobile applications.

CNBC.com had its best ever hour, with 2.6 million pages viewed on the site between 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. The site averages 1.1 million page views during that time period.

CNBC Mobile also posted its best day ever on Thursday in terms of page views with 424,000 page views. The average is 167,000 page views for a day.

MarketWatch.com didn’t set an all-time record, but it did have its biggest day of 2010. At WSJ.com, no records were broken. Its all-time high page views is still Sept 15, 2008, when Lehman Bros. collapsed.

FoxBusiness.com also saw its highest traffic for the year.

Recent Posts

The evolution of the WSJ beyond finance

Rahat Kapur of Campaign looks at the evolution The Wall Street Journal. Kapur writes, "The transformation…

13 hours ago

Silicon Valley Biz Journal seeks a reporter

This position will be Hybrid in the office/market 3 days per week, and those days…

13 hours ago

Economist’s Bennet, WSJ’s Morrow receive awards

The Fund for American Studies presented James Bennet of The Economist with the Kenneth Y. Tomlinson Award…

21 hours ago

WSJ is testing AI-generated article summaries

The Wall Street Journal is experimenting with AI-generated article summaries that appear at the top…

22 hours ago

Cohen joining Bloomberg Tax

Zach Cohen is joining Bloomberg Tax to cover the fiscal cliff and tax issues on…

22 hours ago

Avila named interim editor for Automotive Dive

Larry Avila has been named interim editor for Automotive Dive, an Industry Dive publication. He…

22 hours ago