310,756 US residents visit Echonews online in July

Exciting news showing that your community newspaper, Echonews is gaining the attention of United States residents broke last week as the web traffic put total visitors to www.echonews.ng, our online medium at 310,756.

The figures were disclosed on Cloudflare, a web search tool which monitors and analyses web pages across the world.

The site also showed that the traffic recorded by the residents of United States was far above the figures for Nigerian visitors which stood at 53,655, Ireland, 15,157; France, 11,305 and South Africa, 7,029.

Cloudfare defined visitors who clicked on our site between 8pm and midnight as unique and recorded that 6,184 such visitors were regularly on the site in July adding that daily unique visitors flunctuated between minimum of 613 and maximum of 1,095 per day.

Echonews Newspapers Limited Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Kehinde Bamigbetan described the news as a “positive development”

“It confirms the viability of our multi-media strategy. Although we shall probe the demographics further, it is probable to say that that most of the visitors are Nigerians who are eager to know what is happening at home. Besides, community journalism is the mainstream in the US, they can relate to Echonews as they relate to The Washington Post or New York Times.”

Bamigbetan, who is a former Commissioner for Information & Strategy in Lagos State, said he seeks to use the Echonews community newspaper project to demonstrate that for the media to serve the people effectively, it must be local.

He assured Echonews online visitors that more tools for reporting news will be added soon to increase traffic.