Controversial US media outlets Newsmax and Gateway Pundit became two of the world’s largest news websites last month, new research has found.
In a global ranking of the top 20 English-language news sites prepared for Press Gazette, Newsmax and Gateway Pundit made it into the list thanks to year-on-year growth of 613% and 306% respectively.
The rest of the top 50 was primarily made up of mainstream news websites from the US, UK, Canada and Australia.
BBC.co.uk and BBC.com combined came out on top with 1.44bn website clicks in November, up 65% since November 2019. CNN came in second with 1.36bn clicks on its websites (CNN.com and edition.CNN.com), up 134%.
The next largest websites belonged to the New York Times (705m views, up 189%), Fox News (606m, up 89%), the Guardian (481m, up 89%), Mail Online (366m, up 12%) and the Washington Post (298m, up 103%).
The study, undertaken by SimilarWeb for Press Gazette, also examined the top sources of traffic – direct, email, referrals, social media and search – for news websites:
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