CNN.com delivered the largest daily audience in its history with 30 million unique visitors on U.S. Election Day, more than doubling the previous record of 13.4 million generated on Super Tuesday of this year.

CNN.com Live, the Internet's only multi-stream, live video news service, smashed previous records by serving 5.3 million live streams on Election Day. The number of live video streams served by CNN.com on Election Day is nearly triple that of its previous daily streaming record, which was set on September 1, 2008 - the first day of the Republican National Convention and the day Hurricane Gustav made landfall. CNN.com also served an additional 6.8 million on-demand video streams on November 4.

CNN.com generated 282.5 million page views, also marking the highest day in the site's history and more than doubling its previous record of 103.2 million page views from Super Tuesday of this year. On Election Day, CNN.com's traffic peaked during the 9pm ET hour with 35.6 million page views. CNNPolitics.com also saw record-breaking traffic on Election Day, generating 30.1 million page views - a 43% increase over its previous record. Furthermore, CNN.com's special Election Section alone generated 103.2 million page views. The Political Ticker, the No. 1 political news blog according to Nielsen Online, generated 8.7 million page views, scoring its second best day ever.  (Source: Omniture SiteCatalyst, global)

At the same time, CNN.com's 'In The Field' blog had more than a million views in the last 24 hours with more than 4,000 comments.  The majority of the views were to a single post by Christiane Amanpour, http://inthefield.blogs.cnn.com/2008/11/04/this-election-will-change-the-world saying that the election is going to change the world.

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