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Ten Philadelphia competitors and their January Web traffic

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Perhaps one of the most influential realities of the Web is metrics. The details of traffic and audience online have so rapidly become expansive that they have likely not yet been entirely harnessed.

Arguments still rage around the accuracy and importance of a myriad of Web analytics, but, away from page views, an increasing standard is to compare sites by their monthly unique visitors, though that number’s efficacy has no doubt come into question.

Until now, very little attention has been paid publicly to comparing Philadelphia’s many competitors by way of traffic comparison. With the first numbers for 2010 released this month by public Web analytics company Compete, Technically Philly decided to compile the first such digest.

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CBS stations launch 24-hour news ticker on Center City newsstands

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Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter was on hand Nov. 24, 2009 to introduce a partnership between the region's seven CBS stations and the city's newsstand association to run a ticker. Photo by Amy Stoller for Technically Philly.

Newsstand Association of Philadelphia, meet the region’s seven CBS stations.

Mayor Nutter was on hand Tuesday morning to announce a partnership that will feed news, weather and sports updates from CBS-owned radio and TV outlets onto 24-hour news tickers and flat-screen, high definition televisions outside Center City newsstands, according to a press release.


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