Cleveland.com, the Web site that hosts Plain Dealer stories, increased its traffic in March by 89 percent over March 2007 and is now the 28th most popular newspaper Web site in the country, according to rankings released Monday. Editor & Publisher, a newspaper industry monthly journal, commissioned Nielsen Online to do the rankings. Nielsen ranked the top 30 newspaper Web sites based on monthly traffic. Cleveland.com was the fourth biggest gainer in March, trailing Web sites for the Village Voice, the Wall Street Journal, and the Dallas Morning News. It was the first time cleveland.com had made the top 30 list. According to Nielsen,

about 1.5 million people visited cleveland.com in March.