By: Jennifer Saba The amount of time people spent at the top 30 newspaper Web sites is stuck in neutral if not reverse: More than half saw significant falloff in May.
The list is for May Nielsen Online data for the top 30 newspapers' Web sites ranked by unique users. Nielsen (owned by E&P's parent company) defines the average time spent per person at a site during the month.
Seventeen of the top 30 decline in time spent.
There were a few standouts on the list. The average time spent at The Star Tribune in Minneapolis jumped to more than 47 minutes in May 2009, compared with 27 minutes in May 2008. In April, the site
claimed the most time spent out of the top 30 Web sites.
The San Francisco Chronicle and SFGate.com almost doubled the amount of time spent on site in May 2008 to 21 minutes from 12 minutes in the same month a year ago.
There are many reasons why the average time spent per person can vary including news events or even the number of visitors. A big spike in uniques -- more people attracted to the site -- could account for a lower time-spent average.
Below is the list for the top 30 newspapers ranked by uniques in May provided by Nielsen (owned by E&P's parent company).
Newspaper Web site -- May '09 (hour:minute:second) -- May '08NYTimes.com -- 0:27:34 -- 0:28:52
USATODAY.com -- 0:12:11 -- 0:13:00
Washingtonpost.com -- 0:10:58 -- 0:16:04
LA Times -- 0:07:37 -- 0:07:13
Wall Street Journal Online -- 0:08:54 -- 0:08:27
Daily News Online Edition -- 0:05:47 -- 0:06:16
Chicago Tribune -- 0:09:13 -- 0:08:20
New York Post -- 0:10:57 -- 0:08:02
Boston.com -- 0:10:06 -- 0:09:40
Newsday -- 0:03:30 -- 0:03:35
SFGate.com/San Francisco Chronicle -- 0:21:00 -- 0:12:01
Politico -- 0:06:22 -- 0:10:21
NJ.com -- 0:02:28 -- 0:08:25
Chicago Sun-Times -- 0:05:47 -- 0:08:09
Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- 0:16:13 -- 0:11:11
Baltimore Sun -- 0:07:06 -- 0:06:51
DallasNews.com - The Dallas Morning News -- 0:04:43 -- 0:04:51
The Houston Chronicle -- 0:24:42 -- 0:21:43
Philly.com -- 0:04:46 -- 0:08:03
KansasCity.com -- 0:04:29 -- 0:08:20
The Washington Times -- 0:05:44 -- 0:05:14
Star Tribune -- 0:47:25 -- 0:27:18
MercuryNews.com -- 0:04:51 -- 0:05:08
tampabay.com -- 0:05:41 -- 0:07:59
The Seattle Times -- 0:07:17 -- 0:07:45
Orlando Sentinel -- 0:08:34 -- 0:07:38
MiamiHerald.com -- 0:02:38 -- 0:03:41
Seattle Post-Intelligencer -- 0:07:44 -- 0:15:24
Detroit Free Press -- 0:17:33 -- 0:12:48
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette -- 0:12:23 -- 0:14:31
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