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.
Visits to cbsnews.com were up 69% to 87.4 million, according to data from digital intelligence platform Similarweb.
It was followed by apnews.com (87 million visits, up 53%), which recently signed a deal with Open AI to license its archive, and timesofindia.com (194.3 million, up 35%).
Among the ten biggest websites by number of visits in June, CNN saw the biggest growth. Visits to CNN.com and its non-US domain edition.cnn.com were up 7% year-on-year in June (708.4 million visits), in contrast to its performance in May when visits fell 9%.
Google News saw the largest fall in traffic among the top ten. Visits to the site of the tech giant’s news aggregator were down 18% year-on-year (392.2 million visits), while the New York Times (579.6 million visits, down 15%) and Yahoo Finance (227.1 million visits, down 14%) also saw double-digit falls. Nytimes.com has seen a sustained year-on-year fall in visits in 2023, according to Similarweb figures.
The BBC maintained its position as the biggest newsbrand in the world. It was followed by msn.com, CNN, the New York Times and Mail Online (409.6 million visits) which last month overtook Google News to enter the top five.
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| Top 20 news websites in the world in June |
The position of all the sites in the top ten remained unchanged from May.
Cbsnews.com and newsnow.co.uk made the biggest jumps in rank, climbing six places each compared to May. UK-based aggregator News Now was also the biggest climber last month. Meanwhile cosmopolitan.com (down seven places) and businessinsider.com (down nine) made the largest falls.
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