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Overall, there was little change in the combined amount of visits to the current top 50 most popular news websites in July (6.8 billion visits) compared to June (6.6 billion visits). Combined year-on-year traffic remains 10% lower than in the same month last year, when there were a combined 7.6 billion visits to these leading 50 sites. The second-fastest growing site year-on-year was that of leading commercial Australian news broadcaster, 9news.com.au which saw visits increase 33% from 42.6 million to 56.7 million. It was followed by abc.net.au, which saw visits up 31% from 103.4 million to 135 million, while news.com.au was the fifth-fastest growing site with visits up 16% to 113.1 million. For the second month in a row Australian news sites dominated the list for the top five fastest growing sites in June.
Far-right fake news site Gatweaypundit.com was the fastest growing site in August according to Press Gazette’s ranking of the biggest English language news websites in the world. When it came to monthly gains,  only a handful of sites saw an improvement in traffic compared to August. Ctvnews.ca, the news site of Canada's CTV Television Network saw the biggest month-on-month gain (80.7 million visits - up 15%). It was followed by technology news specialist theverge.com (44.8 million visits - up 8%) and msn.com (960.5 million visits - up 5%). Of the top ten news sites by volume of visits in October, only MSN saw a year-on-year increase in the number of visits (up 16% compared to October 2020).
Similarweb’s data includes visits to all the BBC’s content and not just news. Most of the world's major English news websites saw steep traffic drops in November, possibly as a result of a series of Google updates. Transfer deadline day is here - we'll keep you abreast of all the live updates should they happen at Kenilworth Road. Get the latest news and updates on crime in your area, from realtime alerts from your local police to monthly summaries of how crime has changed in your area and the actions police are taking to combat it. As the industry changes, we track the ever-shifting trends, aiming to connect rigorous academic research with the practical experiences of professional journalists, media managers and policy-makers.
December was also a slow month for the top sites for month-on-month growth with just three of the top ten news sites (MSN, Google News and Mail Online) seeing more traffic compared to November. Last month’s fastest climbing site, news aggregator newsnow.co.uk, was the biggest faller down nine places from rank 32 to rank 41 in February (56.2 million visits). Cnn.com and edition.cnn.com (614.4 million visits, down 26%), Google News (364.7 million visits, down 27%) and nytimes.com saw the biggest falls. Until February the publisher, which acquired popular word game Wordle in January last year, regularly ranked as the fastest-growing website in the world, according to data from digital intelligence platform Similarweb.
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The fall in visits was potentially linked to a less intense news cycle one year after the invasion of Ukraine, something that has likely affected many general news sites, and as well as lower interest in the Wordle puzzle. The news division of US broadcaster CBS was the fastest-growing English-language news website in the world in June, according to Press Gazette’s monthly ranking of global online traffic. These news articles are ranked based on their quality, originality of content, freshness of content, and where permitted based on your settings, your previous activity and purchases within Google News, and activity in other Google products.
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Both increases are likely linked to the increase in demand for news about the Middle East following the outbreak of conflict between Israel and Gaza in October. The drops may be the result of updates rolled out by Google to its search algorithm since September, which have tended to downgrade SEO-explainer style articles. “The world is a mess,” Jane Goodall, the prolific environmentalist and foremost expert on chimpanzees, told TIME CEO Jessica Sibley at the TIME100 dinner on the first night of the summit. This week’s properties are in Kips Bay, Turtle Bay and on the Grand Concourse.
The majority of the top ten sites saw declines of more than 20% year-on-year. The biggest falls after the New York Times were recorded by CNN (visits down 31% year-on-year), Google News (down 28%), Mail Online (24%) and the BBC (down 23%). None of the top ten largest sites grew in March, which may reflect a lower level of interest in news compared to March last year when audiences were keen to get regular updates on Russia’s newly-launched invasion of Ukraine. Politico re-entered the top 50 this month (49.1 million visits, rank 47), while British regional title Manchester Evening News which was ranked 50 in March did not make the list this month. It was followed by Google News (372.8 million visits, down 24%) and Yahoo Finance (203.8 million visits, down 21%).
It was followed by 9news.com.au, which saw visits up 22% from 41.6 million to 50.8 million, and smh.com.au to which visits were 22% higher at 47.4 million. It was followed by far-right fake news site, thegatewaypundit.com, which was last month's fastest growing site. The site which has published false information about Covid-19 and the 2020 US presidential election grew 28% year-on-year to reach 39.4 million visits.
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The site, the digital arm of broadcaster Nine News, had 45.6 million visits in September - an increase of 30% compared to the same month last year according to data from web analytics firm, Similarweb. Sports news site Sportz Bonanza was the fastest growing site overall among the whole top 50 (46.1 million visits, up 3764%). It was among only eight sites in the top 50 that saw more traffic in June 2022 compared to June 2021. Every other top ten site by number of visits in contrast saw year-on-year traffic falls, with five sites (Google News, foxnews.com, theguardian.com, Yahoo Finance and the BBC) all seeing double-digit declines in visits.
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