Traffic to Israeli news sites up 63-172%

Number of unique visitors to news sites increased by 63% to 172% on January 5th 2006, the day following Israeli Prime Minister's stroke and hospitalisation, Nielsen//NetRatings found. January 5th saw the highest number of unique visitors to Israeli news sites since Nielsen//NetRatings started measuring online activity in Israel in 2003. In the following week, daily traffic levels were between 30% and 40% higher than previous three months' daily average.

Ynet news section saw its traffic increase by 124%; Nana News