Wednesday, November 30, 2016

U.S. Digital Media Pageview Rankings, October 2016

From DigitalVision, :

US Media Publications Ranking October 2016
As the presidential election frenzy enters its post-election lull, let’s take a moment to visit one of the most controversial periods in election history and the impact that it had on October’s media publications ranking.

The recent election period saw a general awakening of politically heavy news sites; the first signs of change were visible already few months prior to the election. Take the publication fivethirtyeight.com, which was ranked at a mere 106 in June 2016. Over the last few months, it jumped 93 positions, reaching 13th place in October and was flanked by prominent domains like washingtonpost.com and businessinsider.com.

Keyword Contenders
Another indication of fivethirtyeight.com’s progress can be seen in the graph below which displays the top sites contending for the keyword “election” from May 2016 – Oct. 2016. Fivethirtyeight.com showed the highest increase in its share of the search term, sparring against cnn.com, nytimes.com, bbc.com and the washingtonpost.com.....

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Here are the first 20 of 100:

Rank in October 2016 Publication Combined Page Views
1 espn.com 2,205,261,000
2 msn.com 2,079,402,000
3 drudgereport.com 1,732,988,000
4 news.google.com 1,363,243,000
5 cnn.com 984,350,000
6 sports.yahoo.com 943,013,000
7 finance.yahoo.com 828,649,000
8 foxnews.com 817,923,000
9 nytimes.com 642,838,000
10 buzzfeed.com 594,440,000
11 huffingtonpost.com 541,696,000
12 washingtonpost.com 473,956,000
13 fivethirtyeight.com 362,745,000
14 businessinsider.com 361,513,000
15 usatoday.com 344,366,000
16 cnet.com 305,204,000
17 forbes.com 273,921,000
18 bbc.com 270,975,000
19 dailymail.co.uk 258,344,000
20 nbcnews.com 242,117,000