Reuters starts sending web traffic data to editorial staff

Leela de Kretser, the managing editor of Reuters.com, has started sending out a daily email to the editorial staff to let them know what stories are getting the most traffic.

Here is Tuesday’s email:

Here starts the first of a daily traffic report from Reuters.com:

We had an excellent day yesterday, particularly on mobile, where we had the 4^th highest visitors ever to Reuters.com. While bacon angst was a clear standout with nearly 300,000 views, we had and a number of other high traffic stories yesterday. Please see attached for the Top 25. Great day! Yay!

Desktop: +46% Compared to same day a week ago

842K visits

1.36M views

Mobile: +76% Compared to same day a week

671K visits

906K views

App: +15% Compared to same day a week

535K visits

721K views

	Title	Author	Views	Shares
1	Processed meat can cause cancer, red meat probably can: WHO	Gus Trompiz	284,161	19,516
2	Big quake in Afghanistan and Pakistan kills over 200	Krista Mahr and Jibran Ahmad	145,349	1,696
3	No joke: Guatemalan comedian wins presidency in landslide	Alexandra Alper	120,610	1,354
4	U.S. Navy to send destroyer within 12 miles of Chinese islands	Staff	67,391	3,557
5	Bail set at $1 million for Oklahoma woman charged with plowing into crowd	Lenzy Krehbiel-Burton	36,879	580