Le Huffington Post becomes No. 1 in France

From France comes the mildly surprising news that Le Huffington Post has become the country’s premier online-only news source. Figures released this morning by Mediametrique/Netratings show that the site received 1.916 million unique visitors in July 2012, beating Rue 89 (1.476m unique users), one of France’s most popular websites, into second place. The rest of the rankings see Le Nouvel Observateur’s site Le Plus in third place (1.262m), Atlantico (1.258m) in fourth, fifth place taken by Slate France (966,000) and paying site Mediapart comes sixth with 578,000 unique visitors. Since its French debut the site has generated a healthy flow of traffic.

By February, a month after it went online, Le Huffington Post recorded 4.2 million unique users, 5.6 million visits in total and 11.2 million page views. At barely four weeks old, the youngest member of the French pure-player family was ranked 12th out of the Hexagon’s 50 most-visited news sites. The impressive stats were not however solely attributable to the efforts of Le HuffPost. In France, the site works in partnership with Le Monde and the agreement between the two publications saw Le Huffington Post take over the French newspaper’s pre-existing news site, Lepoint.fr. Visitors to Le Point were redirected to Le HuffPo’s homepage, which undoubtedly made a significant contribution to the new website’s traffic levels

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