The Washington Post Registers 5X Mobile Boost From Google’s Progressive Web Apps
(Robert Andrews / Beet.TV)
Mobile page load times have dropped from three seconds to one second.
How The Daily Beast Gets 40 Percent of Readers to Visit Its Homepage
(Max Willens / Digiday)
Speed makes a difference, but there are good insights into editorial here, too.
Smarter Survey Results and Impact
(Avinash Kaushik / Occam’s Razor)
The difference between reporting and analysis. If you do surveys, give it a read.
Q&A: Former LA Times Reporter on Story That Led to $185 Million Wells Fargo Fine
(Pete Vernon / Columbia Journalism Review)
Journalism has an impact, sometimes it just takes a while. (Five years, in this case.)
Facebook’s News Feed Turns 10
(Jessi Hempel / Backchannel)
An oral history.
From MetricShift
Story by Story, More Page Views for Trump than Clinton by Conrad Lee
DigitalEd: Smarter Audience Analytics for Journalists by Ben DeJarnette
Influencers and Community Help Boost Instagram Video Views by Gabrielle Boland
Branded Content May Be King, But It’s Still Accountable to Someone by Ian Gibbs
Why Journalists Can No Longer Ignore Snapchat by Tim Cigelske
How Media Metrics Training Works In The Real World by Kevin Davis
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Jason Alcorn (@jasonalcorn) is the Metrics Editor for MediaShift. In addition to his work with MediaShift, he is an analyst with the Media Impact Project and works as a consultant with non-profits and newsrooms.