Top US News Sites for December 2003

News Site(source: Nielsen//Netratings) Unique Audience (000) Time Per Person (hh:mm:ss)
CNN 19,970 0:32:17
MSNBC 19,629 0:18:10
Yahoo! News 18,134 0:27:30
AOL News 15,027 0:40:09
Gannett 9,685 0:13:24
NYTimes.com 9,549 0:37:21
Knight Ridder Digital 8,171 0:13:29
IBS 8,124 0:13:34
Tribune Newspapers 7,755 0:14:54
ABCNEWS Digital 7,188 0:13:55
USATODAY.com 5,642 0:21:03
washingtonpost.com 5,115 0:22:15
Hearst Newspapers 5,109 0:15:28
Associated Press 4,799 0:05:47
Fox News 4,529 0:32:42
CBS News 4,327 0:06:38
MSN Slate 4,254 0:08:56
BBC News 3,759 0:09:40
Advance Internet 3,526 0:15:16
WorldNow 3,482 0:08:56

What we find particularly interesting are figures for the aggregate total time spent that month by the newspaper sites’ average users:

  NYTimes.com 37:21
  WashingtonPost.com 22:15
  USATODAY.com 21:03
  Hearst Newspapers 15:28
  Advance Newspapers 15:16
  Tribune Newspapers 14:54
  Knight Ridder Newspapers 13:29
  Associated Press 5:47 (albeit not a newspaper)

Short, short, short! Let us remind you that those are the aggregate total times for all visits the average user made all month.