The latest announcement from the Gawker Media network reads:

With a subtle peak, July 2008 surpassed the previous all-time traffic record (January’s MacWorld spike) to set a brand new record of 254 million monthly pageviews! For benchmarking against other publishers, that’s twice what the Los Angeles Times’ site LATimes.com received in July (source: Editor & Publisher). With growth over May and June at just over 6% each month, Gawker Media has resumed an aggressive but normalized upward trend.

This confirms the results of Bloggasm’s Simon Owens’ earlier research, which showed that the network’s new pay rates are having a great effect on traffic.