By: Jennifer Saba The Houston Chronicle, the Star Tribune in Minneapolis, and the San Francisco Chronicle joined national news outlets The NYTimes.com USAToday.com in the top 5 for time spent at their sites for August.
The average time spent per person in August is the latest information from Nielsen Online (owned by E&P's parent company). Nielsen defines time per person as the average time spent per person at a site during the month of August.
Only half the newspapers gained in time spent per person in August compared to the same period a year ago. But it should also be noted that that many newspapers in the top 30 experienced a
surge in unique users for the month. Typically, the average time spent per person goes down as the number of unique users goes up.
Below is the average time spent per person for the month of August, ranked in the order of that site's unique visitors. This is a custom list from Nielsen Online and can fluctuate based on several factors including news cycles.
The average time spent per person for July can be found
here.
Time per Person (hh:mm:ss): Aug '08 -- Aug.'07
NYTimes.com -- 0:29:48 -- 0:23:50
washingtonpost.com -- 0:10:48 -- 0:14:58
USATODAY.com -- 0:16:20 -- 0:17:00
LA Times -- 0:06:48 -- 0:08:10
Wall Street Journal Online -- 0:13:57 -- 0:17:00
Chicago Tribune -- 0:07:33 -- 0:10:20
Daily News Online Edition -- 0:05:16 -- 0:05:57
Boston.com -- 0:09:09 -- 0:14:42
SFGate.com/San Francisco Chronicle -- 0:16:37 -- 0:11:36
Politico -- 0:10:29 -- 0:08:54
New York Post -- 0:14:50 -- 0:09:08
Chicago Sun-Times -- 0:08:22 -- 0:06:58
The Houston Chronicle -- 0:27:08 -- 0:16:18
International Herald Tribune -- 0:03:04 -- 0:02:07
DallasNews.com - The Dallas Morning News -- 0:04:04 -- 0:06:12
Newsday -- 0:04:48 -- 0:03:10
Star Tribune -- 0:24:47 -- 0:22:07
Baltimore Sun -- 0:06:37 -- 0:07:16
Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- 0:14:08 -- 0:18:21
Philly.com -- 0:03:02 -- 0:06:09
The Seattle Times -- 0:07:26 -- 0:06:44
Azcentral.com -- 0:12:40 -- 0:22:13
Detroit Free Press -- 0:13:33 -- 0:10:38
Village Voice Media -- 0:04:12 -- 0:04:38
KansasCity.com -- 0:08:44 -- 0:06:38
Ottaway Newspapers -- 0:04:01 -- 0:06:32
NJ.com -- 0:07:51 -- 0:06:48
Seattle Post-Intelligencer -- 0:11:55 -- 0:11:21
Sun-Sentinel -- 0:06:25 -- 0:06:54
Orlando Sentinel -- 0:07:59 -- 0:07:44
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