Our coverage of the Casey Anthony verdict netted 5,412 unique visits, our second highest total since 7,384 on Jan. 9, with our continuing coverage of the Arizona massacre that resulted in the near killing of Congresswoman Gabbrielle Giffords.
NSBNews.net put up a breaking news alert announcing a verdict had been reached, which drew a record 134 visitors at the same time, according to our administrator reader. The number of visitors held steady for the duration of the night at 60 to 120 people on at any one time.
The larger daily figure of 5,412 unique visitors comes from our Google Analytics.
Of that total, 5,164 were by those accessing us through nsbnews.net and the remaining 248 via VolusiaNews.net.
A unique visitor is someone whose IP adress is counted once in a 24-hour period, even if that user visits multiple times. Google Analytics measures our unique visitors on a daily cycle beginning at 12:01 a.m. New York time.
Our top five most visited stories were:
1) Casey Anthony trial: Not guilty of verdict;
2) 2-year-old Orlando boy drowns in Daytona Beach Shores hotel pool; becomes 7th small child in Volusia County to die in pools;
3) Poll: NASCAR loses out to hot dog eating contest;
4) Dad charged with leaving 4-year-old son in car;
5) Reflecting on the strength or lack thereof of the Consitution on the 4th of July (column by Peter Mallory)
Our top 10 local visits were as follows: 1) New Smyrna Beach; 2) Daytona Beach; 3) Orlando; 4) Miami; 5) Port Orange; 6) Jacksonville; 7) Fort Laiuderdale; 8) Tampa; 9) Edgewater; 10) St. Petersburg.
New Smyrna Beach-based NSBNews.net was Florida's first Internet-only daily newspaper when it was launched April 7, 2008. VolusiaNews.net, an alternate URL, was added last Oct. 1.