CNBC.com Sees Traffic Dividends From Market Swing
The financial markets’ recent roller coaster ride has been frightening to most, but good news for CNBC.com.
On Thursday (May 6), as the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged nearly a thousand points, the site enjoyed its largest traffic hour ever, generating 2.6 million pages views from 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., an increase of 130 percent compared to that time period’s average.
CNBC’s mobile site also set a record, delivering 424,000 page views on Thursday.
The traffic surge comes on the heels of a record April for CNBC.com,
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