Record Traffic Day At CNN.com: 27 Million Uniques, 276 Million Page Views

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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

CNN emails to tell us they brought in 27 million unique visitors to their site on election day yesterday, a record. Comscore says they averaged just 5 million unique daily visitors in September, so this is more than 5x normal traffic.

The site also generated an astounding 276 million page views. An average day on CNN is about 35 million page views, according to Comscore worldwide stats.

And all that without the Magic Wall and pseudo-holograms that kept people glued to CNN cable channel all day.

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