LA Times Memo: Disasters, Homicides = Big Hits!

Colleagues:

It’s official–we had a steady and slow summer for Web traffic. August remained flat against June and July with 72 million page views for the month. That’s up 19% over this time last year, so the bigger picture continues to show a growing site.

We did a light redesign of our articles in August. Notable differences include bigger photos, bigger headlines and a cleaned-up page. Here’s an example of the old article design, and here’s the new.