Metrics: CBS News Website Fastest Growing Website YOY

The New York Times website was the fastest-growing top ten news website in the world by a large margin in January, according to Press Gazette’s monthly ranking of global online traffic to English-language newsbrands.

• Top 50 most popular news websites in the US (monthly ranking)

Total monthly visits to nytimes.com were up 60% year-on-year to 641.3 million, according to data from digital intelligence platform Similarweb.

The second fastest-growing top ten site was Microsoft news aggregator msn.com (911.3 million visits, up 18%), while third-fastest growing was foxnews.com (351.4 million visits, up 6%).

Among the whole top 50, the fastest-growing site for the second month in a row was CBS News (66.5 million visits, up 75% year-on-year). It was followed by New York Times, the AP news website (71.3 million visits, up 38% year-on-year) and people.com (172.8 million visits, up 27% year-on-year).