Telegraph and Times fastest growing English news sites
In contrast to recent months, when right-leaning and alternative English language news websites noted the biggest relative audience growth, in March it was mostly established and mainstream brands that saw the biggest year-on-year traffic gains. The telegraph.co.uk was the fastest growing English language news website in March, with month-on-month visits up 20% from 53 million to 64 million. It was followed by thetimes.co.uk which saw visits increase 18% from 36 million to 42 million, according to data from web analytics company SimilarWeb, the Press Gazette reports.
Among the sites that saw the biggest month-on-month falls in traffic were two US politics-focused news sites – thehill.com and politico.com – and news-based social right-leaning video platform BitChute.
However, despite seeing traffic fall between February and March, BitChute stands alone in the top ten for year-on-year growth. The platform’s visits were up 144% compared to last March, as monthly visits increased from 15.3 million to 37.6 million this March.
Hellomagazine.com, thetimes.co.uk and Associated Press’ site APnews.com also saw significant growth in year-on-year visits. Monthly visits to hellomagazine.com were up 134% from 25 million to 59 million while visits to thetimes.co.uk increased from 25.6 million to 42.4 million (up 64%).
Overall, the current top 50 most popular news websites saw a combined 3% more visits in March (6.1 billion) versus February (5.9 billion), although traffic remains significantly lower than the peak of 8.5 billion combined visits in November 2020 with both the US presidential election and a worsening of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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