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The Capital Region's number one local Web site

42% of Dane County's adult Internet users visit madison.com – that's nearly double the amount of traffic of the next-most-visited local site.*

Internet users from all over the Capital Region and beyond look to madison.com to get all the local information they need: breaking news from the Wisconsin State Journal and The Capital Times, entertainment and restaurant listings, Marketplace, blogs, forums, and contributions and links from readers and organizations all over the area.

*Source: The Media Audit, 2006

Visitors to madison.com

Active online consumers in Dane County

  • 36% spent $500 or more on Internet purchases in the past year.
  • 34% bought airline tickets on the Internet in the past year.
  • 36% used the Internet to read news in the past month.

Source: Scarborough Research Study, 2006-2007

Madison

Named one of the most wired cities in the United States by International Demographics in 2005

  • 78% of adults in Dane County use the Internet at least once a month
  • 65% log on every month from work
  • 95% log on every month from home

Source: Scarborough Research Study, 2006-2007

The madison.com audience

Young:
43% of visitors to madison.com are under 35 years old.

Educated:
49% have obtained at least a college degree.

Affluent:
46% have a household income of over $75,000.

Scarborough Research Study, 2006-2007

Growing:
Heavy self-promotion, continued investments in staffing and resources, and user-focused content changes have resulted in a 32.2% increase in traffic since January 2002.

  Jan 2005 Jan 2006 Increase
Impressions 7,566,079 10,002,846 32.2%
Visits 1,429,722 1,890,427 32.2%
Average session length 9 min 4 sec 12 min 6 sec 33.4%

Source: madison.com server logs

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