Infographic: Traffic from Facebook to German Newspaper Sites Shows Increase Across the Board, Compared to Google Sites

Across the board, all the newspaper sites saw an increase in the percentage of their traffic coming from Facebook. Bild.de saw 14.3 percent of its traffic come from Facebook, showing an 11.2-percentage point increase from the previous year, benefiting the most from the social networking site. In contrast, the newspaper sites saw varying levels of changes in the percentage of traffic coming from Google Sites. Welt.de, which had the highest percentage of traffic coming from Google Sites, saw nearly 30 percent of traffic coming in brought about by a slight 0.6-percentage point increase. Spiegel.de and FAZ.net, on the other hand, experienced declines.