If the goal of a wall is to keep people out, the Times of London is having a good result from its registration wall:
Times ‘registration wall’ results in significant traffic drop
Results from the London Times’s paywall implementation are coming in. For the first part of the implementation, the Times has gone to a registration wall, rather than a paywall—the site is still free to read, but users must register to do so.
According to statistics from Hitwise, the Times’s site lost about 1/3 of its traffic just from users who were unwilling to take the time to register to keep reading for free.
(via Infoneerpulse, TeleRead)
- First peek at traffic stats for Times’ new site (blogs.journalism.co.uk)
- Times Traffic Drops Off a Cliff After Paywall Launch (thenextweb.com)
- UK Newspaper The Times requires Free account, Traffic Drops by Half (crenk.com)
- Regwall cuts The Times’s online readership in half (boingboing.net)
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