Last week's guest-host Andrew Krucoff has compiled a mega-report on traffic of New York media websites. He is now forgiven for absconding with my Gawker Stalker reports from last week.

Inside: using the (fairly) decent data of Alexa traffic rankings, we find out that little old Gothamist is suddenly kicking New York magazine's butt online, that the Voice is pounding the NY Press, and the NY Observer was sometimes beating the New Yorker — until the NY'er put all those nasty pictures from Iraq online. There's a lesson in that for all of us, and the facts don't lie... sort of. We're nosing around in Alexa's stats — they work by counting the number of times a site gets clicked on as a search result. So, well, Judith Miller would print it, and so would we, but...

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[Update: when reached for comment on this whole internet traffic debacle, a spokeswoman for New York magazine said "Gothamist is notsomuch kicking our ass." Seriously, she did, and pointed us to this graph, which indeed shows Gothamist not kicking New York magazine's ass.]