One of the fact-checked statements.
The most-watched presidential debate in U.S. history wasn’t just a boon for television.
NPR’s website enjoyed its largest single-day audience ever Monday, thanks in part to a page that provided live fact-checking during the debate, the network said Tuesday.
More than 5 million users visited NPR.org Monday. By Tuesday afternoon, the fact-checking page had received more than 7.4 million pageviews from 6 million users. From June to August, NPR’s website averaged 33.2 million users each month, according to the network.
The fact-checking page also peaked at 294,000 simultaneous users as measured by audience-tracking platform Chartbeat, making it among the most-viewed pages across sites of Chartbeat customers.
Ninety NPR stations embedded a module of the feature on their websites. The network is still working on estimating traffic to those sites, according to a spokesperson. NPR does not yet know how many people listened to the network’s live audio stream of the debate.
Perhaps…but NPR’s audience is DOWN since they banned comments. http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/npr.org
I’m assuming Alexa is an accurate reflection of reality. Can’t say for sure.
Also of interest is the fact 25% of the audience is non US?