They're referring to monthly unique visitors on the Newsweek website. Print circulation was around 100k in 2015. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsweek)

For comparison (I make no claims it's a good one), the New York Times web site has around 240 million monthly unique visitors. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times)

[–] UnknownQuantity@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Does that include all the visitors blocked by their paywall?

Edit: I'm referring to NYT.

[–] zero_gravitas@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I only know what I gleaned from quick glance at their Wikipedia page, which says they have 8.6 million digital subscribers. So the 240 million figure includes non-subscribers who can run into paywalls, but I'm guessing the NYT might have some content that isn't paywalled, which complicates getting a sense of their 'reach'. Which is why I said I make no claims that it's a good comparison.

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

and how many of those are bots?