The future is 33% here (well 31.58%)

Posted: December 3, 2008 by datechguy in tech
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Patterico Pontifications has some traffic numbers that show where the future of the net is, hint its not with newspapers:

As you can see, Hot Air had 23,713,333 page views in October, as measured by SiteMeter. By contrast, latimes.com had 75,088,000 page views.

This means Hot Air had 31.58% of the traffic that all of latimes.com had in October 2008. That’s almost 1/3 the traffic of the entire web site of a major American newspaper.

And that’s two guys blogging away — meaning either one of the Hot Air bloggers is almost certainly getting more Internet eyeballs than any one writer on latimes.com.

And as Michelle Malkin points out, hot air doesn’t have auto refresh most papers (and Drudge) do.

Frankly the newspaper industry is in the same boat that the porn industry is in, how do you sell a product when a similar one is available online for free?

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