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If I read that visualization correctly, their homepage traffic increased +1000% while the pageviews on specific areas like tech / politics didn't increase at al

• brandnewlow 17y ago
  When was the last time you clicked on a category tab on any site? I can't recall every doing it. I think psychologically we assign very specific use cases to our media. Go here for X. Go there for Y. Go there for Z. If you go looking for X, it's either there or it's not. You're not going to click on a tab to try and see if that subsection has what you're looking for. You're going to hop to another site that's focused just on doing X. </gross but perhaps helpful generalization>
• Timothee 17y ago
  That's a good point. It probably means that people go to cnn.com to know what's going on, but don't see CNN as the best place to get in-depth or specialized content.