Traffic at Top Newspaper Web Sites Declines in November

The difficult comparisons of the November 2008 presidential news cycle meant that more than half of the top 30 newspaper Web sites lost unique users in November 2009. USAToday.com, NYTimes.com and the LA Times lost more than 20% of its unique users in November 2009 year-over-year. The Washington Post and Wall Street Journal eked out gains up 2% and 6% respectively. Newsday went behind a pay wall in late October -- unique users for that month were 2.2 million. In November, Newsday had 1.7 million uniques. The top newspaper Web site on the list that has the most sessions per user? That would be the Atlanta Journal-Constitution at 5.43.