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Visits to CNN.com and its non-US domain edition.cnn.com were up 7% year-on-year in June (708.4 million visits), in contrast to its performance in May when visits fell 9%. The BBC maintained its position as the biggest newsbrand in the world with a combined 1.1 billion visits to the bbc.com and bbc.co.uk domains, although this does include visitors to its entertainment and other content. The BBC was again the biggest newsbrand in the world with a combined 1.1 billion visits to the bbc.com and bbc.co.uk domains, although this does include visitors to its entertainment and other content.
Visits to Yahoo! Finance were up 13% (268.3 million visits) while MSN's traffic was almost static (890.4 million visits - up 1%). When it comes to number of visits the BBC, which dominates in the UK, also continues to hold the number one spot globally. Its closest competitors, Microsoft's popular desktop news aggregator MSN and the website of cable stalwart CNN, had 882.5m and 612.7m visits respectively, leaving the BBC the clear leader by a margin of 30% over second-place MSN. Second placed MSN, Microsoft’s news aggregator, received 884.2m visits (no change compared to December 2021), while third-place CNN received 624.7m visits (up 2%). After the BBC, the best-ranked UK sites globally were dailymail.co.uk (in sixth place) and theguardian.com (344m visits - up 9%, ranked seventh). RT.com narrowly missed the top ten, coming in eleventh place for number of visits.
Also among the top ten fastest growers month-on-month were dailystar.co.uk (35.3m visits, up 5%), nypost.com (109m, up 1%) and the website of Russian-state owned RT (131.8m, up 0.5%). BBC.co.uk and BBC.com combined came out on top with 1.3bn website visits in June. This was 10% more than in June last year, when both sites combined received 1.2bn visits. Mail Online (357.2m visits - down 5% year-on-year) and theguardian.com are, as in November, the other two British offerings in the top 10. Visits to the site of the UK tabloid were down 10% (90.3m visits) in contrast to the strong performance of its sister site in the US, the-sun.com which has performed very well in recent months.
UK-based aggregator News Now jumped the most places in this month’s ranking, climbing five spots compared to April to rank 43 (54.5 million visits). Cbsnews.com and newsnow.co.uk made the biggest jumps in rank, climbing six places each compared to May. Other than new entrant The Times of Israel, Reuters saw the biggest jump in rank, climbing seven places to 23rd (113.2 million visits), followed by ABC News. It was followed by another new entrant, Al Jazeera, which was this month’s second-fastest news site with visits up 147% to 102.9 million, which propelled the Qatari newsbrand to rank 27. James Rourke was killed on a construction site just months after graduating from university, at a time when his employer was already under investigation over another death.
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Last month Press Gazette reported that most of the world's top 10 biggest English news sites saw double-digit falls in traffic in November due to the effect of 2020's "Trump bump" which temporarily benefitted many sites covering US politics. Year-on-year comparisons however show a very different picture as January 2021 contained major news events such as Covid-19 surges and the Capitol insurrection and Joe Biden’s inauguration in the US. As in previous months where Press Gazette has reported traffic falls for most leading sites compared to one year ago, all of the ten biggest sites by number of visits saw significant year-on-year falls in traffic. Several of the world’s leading news sites including the BBC, New York Times and Guardian saw small month-on-month traffic increases in January. The biggest year-on-year growth overall, however, was to Live Universal Awareness Map (liveuamap.com) which had 74.8m visits, an increase of 3390% year-on-year.
Overall, the current top 50 most popular news websites saw a combined 4% fewer visits in June (7.2bn) versus May (7.5bn), and traffic remained 10% lower than in June last year, when there were a combined 8bn visits to these leading 50 sites. Australian news sites 9News and ABC were among the fastest growing sites in June. Was the fastest growing site, with year-on-year visits up 34% from 46.3 million in July 2020 to 62.1 million in July 2021 according to data from web analytics firm Similarweb.
Live Universal Awareness Map was followed by aljazeera.com (75.8m visits, up 168%), reuters.com (121.4m visits - up 76%), nytimes.com and RT.com (207.8m visits, up 58%). Yahoo Finance was the only top ten site that saw a year-on-year fall in traffic (visits were down 17% to 273.2m). The best-ranked British newsbrands after the BBC were dailymail.co.uk (in sixth place, 354.5m visits), theguardian.com (seventh place, 283.7m visits) and express.co.uk (ranked 19th, 100.6m visits). Of the sites that ranked in both October and November, Nbcnews.com (rank 28 in November, 98.1 million visits) gained the most places, jumping nine spots. The start of the war in Ukraine last February led to a surge in traffic for some newsbrands, which may be linked to this month’s year-on-year falls in comparison. It was followed by last month’s fastest-growing site cbsnews.com (up 25% to 61.9 million) and timesofindia.com (up 15% to 202.5 million).
CNN rose one place up the ranking to take second place from MSN (690.5 million visits), which fell to third. The order of the remainder of the top ten remained unchanged with the New York Times (618.8 million visits) and Mail Online completing the top five. Readers who have taken the plunge said it had improved their lives, marriages and mental health.
It was followed by MSN, CNN, New York Times and Google News in a top five ranking unchanged from January. Among the top 50 as a whole, the fastest-growing was Indian site timesnownews.com (51 million visits, up 80% year-on-year). Times Now, which is owned by Indian media giant Times Group, was one of four English language news sites from the sub-continent in the fastest-growing list. Also included were hindustantimes.com (149.6 million visits, up 28%), news18.com (168.8 million, up 17%) and timesofindia.com (178.3 million, up 16%). None of the top ten English-language newsbrands in the world saw year-on-year growth in May, according to Press Gazette’s monthly ranking of global online traffic.
Visits to CNN were up 6% year-on-year to 703.3 million, according to data from digital intelligence platform Similarweb, while visits to dailymail.co.uk were up 3% to 427.7 million. None of the ten biggest news websites in the world increased their traffic year-on-year in September. Press Gazette's monthly ranking of the top 50 news websites in the world, using Similarweb data. InYourArea aggregates all the latest news for your local area from news sites, blogs and social networks. We are the only service that gives you a 360 view of up to the minute updates on your area. The Federated Data Platform (FDP) is new software that will sit across NHS trusts and integrated care systems (ICSs), allowing them to connect data they already hold, such as vaccination and hospital records, in a secure and safe environment.
All of the top ten news sites tracked by Press Gazette saw double-digit falls in traffic despite the busy news agenda. Among this group the largest year-on-year slumps were seen by MSN (down 28% year-on-year), Fox News (273.8 million, down 26%), CNN (down 25%), and Google News (down 19%). Websites with a traditional focus on scale, often built with the aid of SEO explainer-style articles, appear to be among the hardest hit by the updates.
After the BBC, best-ranked British newsbrand, The Guardian climbed one spot compared to September, ranking sixth this month. It displaced another British newsbrand the Mail Online (387 million visits) which fell to seventh place. A number of sites not in last month’s top 50 entered the ranking in November, among them politico.com (rank 38, 70.5 million visits) and thehill.com (rank 47, 56.7 million visits). Politics-focused news site politico.com saw the biggest fall in rank, dropping 11 places to 49th (50.8 million visits).
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Website of Indian news magazine India Today was the fastest growing top 50 site in October (69.7 million visits - up 62% year-on-year). It was followed by livemint.com, the website of the Indian financial daily, Mint (45.3 million visits - up 38%) and Warner Media's India news site news18.com (129.3 million visits - up 34%). The New York Times and Mail Online were the only top ten news sites to grow their worldwide audiences year-on-year for the second month in a row, according to Press Gazette’s ranking of global online traffic to English language newsbrands. Three British newsbrands also ranked among the fastest-growing sites in the top 50. Third-fastest growing was the Sun’s US digital edition, the-sun.com (60.8m million visits, up 58% year-on-year), which we have consistently reported as having seen strong growth according to Similarweb data. The BBC once again topped the list for number of worldwide visits at 1.2 billion, unchanged from October.
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The site, which presents the latest updates on issues including conflicts, protests, terrorism and natural disasters from around the world in the form of a map, is likely to have seen increased interest due to the current war in Ukraine. Al Jazeera saw the biggest month-on-month traffic fall in April (down 41% compared to March). Bucking the trend among this list of ten leading sites was the New York Times which had 546.5m visits in March (up 51%) and Mail Online (354.5m visits, up 11%). The New York Times’ acquisition of Wordle in January will likely have been among the factors that have helped increase its popularity.
British news aggregator newsnow.co.uk was among the top ten fastest growing sites in January (69.7m worldwide visits - 5% growth). Overall, just over half (27) of the top 50 sites saw more visits this March compared to the same month last year. The growth in traffic is likely in many cases to have been driven by an increased interest in news about the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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It was followed by the BBC.co.uk and BBC.com sites (1.1bn visits, down 11%) and Fox News (252.5m visits, down 6%). You can update your base country or region at anytime using App Store Connect or the App Store Connect API. If you choose to do so, prices in your selected base country or region won’t be adjusted when prices are globally equalized on the App Store to account for foreign currency changes or new taxes.
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Independent.co.uk (92.4 million visits) was the biggest climber, jumping six places to 26, while cnbc.com (139.3m visits) and Indian broadcaster NDTV.com (110.9 million visits) each fell four places to rank 17 and 24 respectively. Mail Online overtook Google News to enter the top five this month (394.8 visits, down 15% year-on-year). The DMGT-owned site saw faster month-on-month growth than Google News (7% compared to 5% for Google News) leading it to climb one position in this month’s ranking. The positions of the remaining top ten sites by number of visits were unchanged from April.
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Next placed CNN racked up just under half the number of visits as the BBC sites (630.1 million), although the BBC’s lead over the CNN in July has reduced slightly compared to June when the BBC had over 700 million more visits than CNN. Similarweb’s data for the BBC does however, include visits to both BBC’s main site as well as its news offering. There were 1 billion visits in October to the Microsoft site which aggregates news, as it continued to eat into the BBC's position as the leading news site in the world. Bbc.co.uk and bbc.com meanwhile had 1.1 billion visits from around the world in October, according to data from web analytics firm, Similarweb. Similarweb’s data for the BBC includes visits to the BBC’s main site as well as its news offering while its data for MSN is for the entire portal.
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