List: General News Sites Most Popular

Most visited websites 2017 Q4 vs Q3

SimilarWeb US releases a quarterly review of website sites based on their average rank over the previous quarter, in comparison to the quarter before that. SimilarWeb has just inssied is Q4 2017report, which compares to  Q3 2017.

The reports now seven new sites entered the top 100 this quarter, including three sports-related news sites–maxpreps.com, sbnation.com and rotoworld.com. In addition, both nbcsports.com and si.com saw big increases rising by 24 and 21 places, respectively. This seasonal demand for sports news coincides with the football season at both college and national levels. Popular pages at these sites last quarter include profootballtalk.nbcsports.com and 17776 – a serialized speculative fiction multimedia narrative published at SB Nation.

Outside of sports the new entries to the top 100 included three general news sites (newsweek.com, complex.com and polygon.com) and a tech news site (techradar.com)