CNN.com traffic for day after bin Laden’s death in top 10
More than 21 million mobile page views
Story pushes @CNN to more than 2 million followers; 71,000 retweets of CNN bin Laden posts
Following the news of Osama bin Laden’s death, people came to CNN.com by the millions for the latest developments, resulting in May 2 ranking among the top 10 biggest days in CNN.com’s history.
On May 2, CNN.com generated:
- 125 million global page views: the 6th highest day on record and 127% over the prior 4-week average (behind Election day 2008, day after 2008 Election, Obama Inauguration, Japan tsunami, 2006 Midterm elections)
- 17.9 million global video views: the 5th highest in CNN.com’s history, 450% over the average (see how other news events ranked)
- 1.3 million live video views, more than 2000% over the prior 4-Monday average
(Source: Omniture SiteCatalyst)
Full ratings for bin Laden’s death below the jump.
Updated May 5, 2011 at 1:47 pm.
Below are the full ratings for CNN.com’s coverage of Osama bin Laden’s death on Sunday, May 1, and Monday, May 2. On those two days, CNN.com generated:
- More than 172.7 million global page views combined on Sunday and Monday.
- More than 23.0 million global video views combined on Sunday and Monday.
- 576 iReports submitted to the iReport Open Story: World Reacts on Monday of which 95 have been vetted for use on CNN. Submissions are 98% higher than the first day of theJapan tsunami, and vetted submissions up 28%.
(Source: Omniture SiteCatalyst. Records cover all days since 2006; iReport – Business Objects)
CNN on Mobile Web:
- CNN Mobile’s website reached 21.1 million global page views combined on Sunday and Monday. On Sunday, they reached 7.7 million, up 26% and on Monday, they reached 13.4 million, up 96% over prior 4-Mondays.
- CNN’s mobile web had 174.4 thousand domestic video starts combined on Sunday and Monday. On Sunday, there were 26.7 thousand, a 23% gain over the same day prior 4-week average, and on Monday, 147.7 thousand video views, up 684%.
(Source: Bango Analytics. Note: International mobile site doesn’t include video.)
CNN on Social Media
- There have been 12 posts on the death of bin Laden which have generated over 63,000 likes and comments. The top post was: Breaking News: Osama bin Laden is dead, CNN John King’s reported Sunday night, citing sources, and it had over 10,000 interactions, the highest level ever recorded. This is already 62% higher than the number of interactions surrounding theJapan quake and tsunami that was tracked for 6 days.
(Source: Facebook Insights)
- There have been 85 posts on the @CNN and @cnnbrk accounts which have been re-tweeted over 71,000 times. This breaking news story has also helped push the @CNN account to over 2 million followers. @cnnbrk has 4.2 million followers.
- The top re-tweeted story was on the @CNN account: Osama bin Laden is dead, CNN John King’s reported Sunday night, citing sources. Watch CNN for the latest. This was re-tweeted more than 10,000 times.
(Source: Twitter analytics)
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