The News grows online

Online visits to Te Awamutu News were up 250 per cent on 2021 last year smashing all previous records with the home page teawamutunews.nz coming in at number one with 15 per cent of the views followed in order from two to 10 by:

2023 started off strongly as well with our story on the earthquakes felt in Waipā on 4 January getting 16 per cent of the page views. Top five in order:

Up in Cambridge too

Online visits to our sister publication the Cambridge News website were 105 per cent up on 2021.

The home page cambridgenews.nz came in at number one with 14 per cent of the views followed in order from two to 10 by:

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