The New York Times reports, in an article by Andrew Ross Sorkin:
The company [CNet], founded in 1992, has more than 2,600 employees. It has been particularly hard hit because of increased competition in its core market from technology-focused blogs like TechCrunch, written by a handful of people at a fraction of the cost. In September, page views at TechCrunch surpassed those at CNet’s News.com, long considered the industry stalwart. In October, TechCrunch and its sister site had eight million page views compared with News.com’s six million page views, according to comScore Media Metrix.
Did they really report that page views at TechCrunch exceeded those at CNet? With a straight face? No, seriously… TechCrunch is that POS effort by Arrington, right? Six silly valley insiders, Loic Lemeur, and a geek in Omaha read it every week? That one?
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Shelley 01.07.08 at 6:40
Page views is a bad measurement. A site that updates frequently, with a lot of discussion like Techcrunch has, would have many more page views. What should be measured is unique visitors, not views. I think that the numbers would change, considerably, if the Times referenced a decent research site, not a site run by financial dweebs with pretensions of geekness.