Independent: In December Forbes.com hit a new record for online traffic of more than 45 million monthly unique visitors. The score places it top of the fiercely competitive American business media sector, ahead of the digital-only Business Insider, and comfortably in front of the websites of the Wall Street Journal, CNNMoney, The Atlantic and Fortune. The secret has been the contributor program devised by chief product officer Lewis DVorkin, who has assembled a team of 1,800 writers and bloggers. Only 35 percent of these contributors are “compensated.”