Gawker celebrated the end of 2009 setting a new record for pageviews. But Nick Denton anointed monthly uniques as the new king and I'm happy to report we crossed a milestone this week with an audience topping 4 million readers.
The holidays usually mean that December is a slow traffic month around here. But after this month's series of big exclusives, we're ending 2009 with a new monthly traffic record of more than 33 million pageviews which tops McSteamy-driven August.
Compete.com released their monthly unique visitor numbers today and Gawker had another strong month, staying ahead of old-line (and much larger) outfits like ABCNews.com and NYMag.com.
No celebrity deaths last month. But exhaustive coverage of the Eliot Spitzer's call-girl scandal helped boost pageviews in March. (A story that salacious is unlikely to be repeated in April but, then again, nobody expected New York's self-righteous Governor to blow up quite so spectacularly.) Anecdotally, Gawker has…
"So how can the average eBusiness site duplicate these numbers? Well, aside from pissing off rich religions and carrying celebrity news, there may not be any easy way. Still, blogs can take a shot, and it seems likely that staying up on current events and tossing in references when possible will make any site look a…
