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March 21, 2008

Exclusive: Top 30 Web Sites Sank in 'Time Spent' in February

Jennifer Saba

NEW YORK --
Traffic for newspaper Web sites soared in February but people were spending considerably less time visiting those sites. Only about one-third of online newspapers in the top 30 reported gains in the average time spent per person in February 2008 compared to February 2007, according to new data from Nielsen Online (owned by E&P's parent The Nielsen Company).Of those that experienced increases, the Politico, perhaps not surprising in this political season, more than doubled the time spent per pers ...continued

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