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By HowardElliott (registered) - website | Posted January 26, 2010 at 13:17:44

On behalf of The Spectator, I apologize for the error. You're quite right, it's significant. While the opinions expressed don't reflect those of our newspaper, we have and take full responsibility for all our print content. We will run a correction in tomorrow's newspaper. There is no intention on the part of The Spectator to in any way belittle the work being done by Ryan through RTH or any other community-run social media source. On the contrary, we aspire to get to be as good at this part of web experience as Ryan and others in Hamilton are. And we expect to make real progress, soon. To clear the air on traffic, The Spec's web traffic details are proprietary, but for the record some of the basic numbers are as follows. We use Omniture Site Catalyst for traffic measurement.

TOTAL PAGE VIEWS, 2009: 61,767,755

TOTAL MONTHLY VISITORS, 2009: (IPs log in once but in the past month but may have logged in more) 5,983,458, slightly less than a half million monthly.

TOTAL DAILY UNIQUE VISITORS,2009(IPs logged in at least once daily but possibly multiple times): 10,038,284, a little more than 836K daily uniques each month.

We are pleased with the progress we made in 2009, and have ambitious traffic generation goals for 2010 as well. We intend to learn as much as we can from all the successful web players, including Ryan, as we push towards our objective of become a key source of on-line information and community.

Again, our apologies. We wish Ryan and the RTH family continued success.

Howard Elliott Managing Editor The Hamilton Spectator

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