compiled by Matt Skibinski
Forget "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report." More and more Americans - both on and off the hill - are relying on news blogs to track world events. In this edition of By the Numbers, the Daily takes a look at the surprising statistics of Internet news.
210 Percentage increase in readership to news blogs last year9 Percentage increase in readership newspaper Web sites last year3.8 Percentage decline in daily newspaper circulation between Sept. 2005 and Sept. 2006
111,000,000 Approximate number of visits to Yahoo.com during October, 2006
1 Ranking of Steve Irwin's death on Yahoo's list of most searched news stories in 20062 Ranking of the death of Anna Nicole Smith's son on the same list3 Ranking of the Iraq war5 Ranking of the U.S. Elections on the Yahoo list7 Ranking of the North Korean nuclear weapon scare9 Ranking of Saddam Hussein's trial
27 Percentage of Internet users who said they read blogs, as of Dec. 200572 Percentage of Internet users who said they got news online9 Percentage of Internet users who said they made their own blogs
3,800,000 Number of visits to the top 10 new blogs during Dec. 200660 Percentage of newspaper Web site readership that is male
40 Percentage of newspaper Web site readership that is female66 Percentage of news blog readership that is male34 Percentage of news blog readership that is female
226 Percentage increase in male readership to blogs in 2006183 Percentage increase in female readership to blogs
55,500,000 Approximate number of unique visitors to newspaper Web sites in 2006
31 Percentage increase in total readership to newspaper Web sites in 200621 Percentage increase in visitors to the New York Times Web site between Dec. 2005 and Dec. 200662 Percentage increase in visitors to the New York Post Web site during that time9 Percentage increase in visitors to the Web sites of the top 10 daily newspapers over the previous year
The information cited above comes from Nielson//Net Ratings, the Huffington Post, the New York Times, Yahoo.com and The PEW Internet and American Life Project.
