Web traffic for Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Tuesday: Great example of breaking and owning a local story and getting it to the web fast. We broke the Dodds arrest and had story and photos online in record time, along with email and text message alerts. Other media outlets could only cite us as the source because we responded quickly and owned it. Well-executed and efficient effort on everyone's part, for the initial response and for following up with local and AP content throughout the day, which ended strong with 29,484 unique visitors and 159,999 page views (you'd think we could get one more view to hit 160,000...!)

Top stories: Dodds stories (several of them) together earned 14,058 views. A business story, "Martha Stewart eyes Seabrook specialty-foods firm" got second stop at 2,753 views. Top photo gallery was "Photos of the Week" by a huge margin, with "Seacoast Karaoke Idol" in second still getting residual traffic from the previous day.

Page views spiked as soon as the the Dodds news broke:



Top stories:

4,090 - Police search for Dodds, wanted on warrant
3,905 - Gary Dodds arrested after search
3,289 - Gary Dodds taken into custody
2,774 - Convicted ex-candidate arrested
2,753 - Business Martha Stewart eyes Seabrook specialty-foods firm
1,576 - Eight charges in alleged rape of disabled woman
1,328 - Man sentenced for dog death tells judge he once robbed eight banks
1,240 - Entertain Portsmouth native on 'Dancing with the Stars'
820 - Portsmouth police log
722 - Entertain Kisses and disses: Your dog attacked my dog
699 - Dad rescues 2 children as car rolls into pond
625 - Photo Zoom: Gary Dodds arrested after search
588 - Susan T. Duffy

Top photo galleries:

3,300 - Flash Gallery: Photos of Week April 28-May 4
986 - Seacoast Karaoke Idol 2008
582 - Kennebunk/port Little League
390 - Friday Sports at Exeter High