Financial information publisher Taloussanomat discontinued its printed paper and concentrated its resources fully to online site at the beginning of the year. The decision has been well received by the users – Taloussanomat.fi had last week for the first time 300,000 unique weekly visitors.
Measured by the number of visitors, Taloussanomat.fi was last week Finland's largest financial news site. Taloussanomat is the fourth largest among the sites with newspaper background.
Digitoday, focusing on technological stories and part of Taloussanomat, had 98,837 unique visitors last week. This number is not included in Taloussanomat's visitor numbers. Last week, the most popular stories on Taloussanomat.fi were related to real estates, telecom company Elisa and cars.
Finland's largest newspapers online on week 2 were (measured with unique visitors)
Iltalehti 1,231,680
Ilta-Sanomat 1,197,484
Helsingin Sanomat 912,200
Taloussanomat 309,833
Kauppalehti Online 309,110
Kaleva 135,838
Aamulehti 112,731
Turun Sanomat 97,165
Keskisuomalainen 52,081
Etelä-Suomen Sanomat 34,507
Taloussanomat is part of Sanoma, the newspaper division of the SanomaWSOY Group.