CNN.com ranked numero uno news website for July 2004

MUMBAI: The number 13 may be considered unlucky by many, but CNN's website CNN.com has won laurels the 13th time! The website has been ranked as the number one news organisation website for July 2004, according to Nielsen//NetRatings’ Home and Work Panel.

The online tracking company reported that CNN.com garnered 21 million unique users for the month thus topping among TV and newspaper Web sites.

In addition, CNN.com far out-paced other news organisations' websites in the amount of time users spent on the site in July 2004. Users of CNN.com spent more than 924 million total minutes on the site, up nine per cent from June 2004, according to Nielsen/NetRatings.

The monthly report follows Nielsen/NetRatings’ analysis of Web traffic following the 2004 Democratic National Convention. According to that report, CNN.com garnered the most users among news organisations’ websites for all four days of the convention, averaging nearly 4.2 million unique US home and work users on a daily basis. In addition, CNN.com also out-ranked other news organisations' websites in the amount of time a user spends on the site. Each user spent an average of nearly 8.5 minutes on the site each day.