Despite news that ad revenue is slowing down, the Newspaper Association of America reports that traffic to newspaper websites continues to grow, reports MediaPost.

The NAA numbers show 59 million people visited newspaper websites in the first quarter of the year, up 5.3 percent over the same period in 2006. Page views are also up, from 2.7 billion in Q1 2006 to 3.1 billion in the first three months of 2007. Visitors spent an average of 45 minutes on a site, 11.5 percent more than last year.