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US Media Publications Ranking April 2017, Drudge Report beats Google, CNN & Washington Post!



The latest SimilarWeb US Media Publications ranking is here!


April showers were not the only things falling this month as the top 100 websites received 3.9% fewer total pageviews compared to March 2017. Within the heavily concentrated upper tier there was little movement with the top five websites attracting 35% of all traffic to the top 100 in April 2017.


Notable changes in SimilarWeb Ranking

Four new websites entered the top 100 in April this year: avclub.com, jezebel.com, bostonglobe.com and theblaze.com. Correspondingly, these were the websites that left the top 100: independent.co.uk, newyorker.com, realclearpolitics.com and vogue.com.

The Drudge report came in third, beating Google, Cnn & Washington Post.


It was a good month for the Fusion Media Group as seven of its websites saw an increase in the rankings. The Onion’s sister publication, avclub.com, saw the largest increase jumping 69 positions from 119 to 50 thanks to drastic increase in engagement (pages/visit) that almost tripled compared to the previous month (174% growth in desktop pages/visit and 47% increase in mobile web pages/visit). The article named “What’s the worst movie you ever saw in the theatre?” was by far the most popular content on the website in April.


Financial news and services website thestreet.com was the second biggest winner in April moving up 17 places similarly due to increased engagement with improved pages per visit. The most search stock for the website in April was Rolls Royce.


It was also a great month for refinery29.com which closed the month 16 places higher than in March. Once again the driving force behind this increase was engagement, with the number of desktop pages per visit improving from 6.01 to 7.08. The most viewed article on the site for April was their rundown of new releases for Netflix, “Everything Coming To Netflix In May“.


Top Non-Branded Keywords

While PotUS continues to be a key draw for news sites, April was a busy month with stories about United Airlines, Bill O’Reilly and the ill-fated Fyre Festival grabbing the public’s attention. Here are the top ten non-branded keywords driving traffic to US media publications in April 2017:

  1. trump
  2. united airlines
  3. north korea
  4. donald trump
  5. syria
  6. aaron hernandez
  7. bill o’reilly
  8. fyre festival
  9. united
  10. russia

Based on the combination of desktop and website traffic in April 2017, the top 100 media publications ranking looks like this:

US Media Publications by Pageviews, April 2017


Domains Rank in April 2017 Rank in March 2017 Monthly Change Combined Pageviews
msn.com 1 1 0 1764.4 M
espn.com 2 2 0 1393.4 M
drudgereport.com 3 3 0 1248.2 M
news.google.com 4 4 0 1165.8 M
cnn.com 5 6 1 841.0 M
finance.yahoo.com 6 5 -1 827.9 M
sports.yahoo.com 7 7 0 741.4 M
foxnews.com 8 8 0 671.4 M
nytimes.com 9 9 0 538.0 M
buzzfeed.com 10 11 1 481.4 M
washingtonpost.com 11 10 -1 446.1 M
huffingtonpost.com 12 12 0 351.4 M
businessinsider.com 13 13 0 321.5 M
cnet.com 14 14 0 260.1 M
bbc.com 15 16 1 259.0 M
usatoday.com 16 15 -1 251.0 M
dailymail.co.uk 17 17 0 235.6 M
nbcnews.com 18 19 1 219.8 M
forbes.com 19 18 -1 218.2 M
news.yahoo.com 20 32 12 165.2 M
bloomberg.com 21 22 1 156.3 M
popsugar.com 22 28 6 144.3 M
sfgate.com 23 26 3 142.1 M
pitchfork.com 24 25 1 139.0 M
politico.com 25 21 -4 131.0 M
ksl.com 26 33 7 129.8 M
nydailynews.com 27 30 3 123.3 M
seekingalpha.com 28 24 -4 118.7 M
cbssports.com 29 20 -9 118.6 M
liveleak.com 30 38 8 118.2 M
theguardian.com 31 27 -4 116.4 M
cbsnews.com 32 31 -1 114.6 M
nypost.com 33 34 1 113.2 M
breitbart.com 34 23 -11 110.8 M
people.com 35 37 2 107.3 M
npr.org 36 29 -7 107.1 M
tmz.com 37 40 3 106.9 M
abcnews.go.com 38 39 1 104.4 M
gizmodo.com 39 43 4 98.3 M
wsj.com 40 35 -5 97.9 M
latimes.com 41 44 3 93.1 M
usnews.com 42 42 0 92.9 M
centurylink.net 43 45 2 91.6 M
slate.com 44 41 -3 83.2 M
bleacherreport.com 45 52 7 80.6 M
reuters.com 46 49 3 80.6 M
cnbc.com 47 36 -11 79.1 M
rollingstone.com 48 48 0 77.6 M
marketwatch.com 49 47 -2 74.9 M
avclub.com 50 119 69 73.8 M
lifehacker.com 51 55 4 72.2 M
thehill.com 52 46 -6 71.8 M
espncricinfo.com 53 68 15 69.7 M
pcmag.com 54 69 15 67.9 M
complex.com 55 63 8 67.1 M
zerohedge.com 56 53 -3 66.4 M
wenxuecity.com 57 50 -7 65.1 M
telegraph.co.uk 58 64 6 65.0 M
delish.com 59 56 -3 62.8 M
refinery29.com 60 76 16 61.1 M
chron.com 61 59 -2 61.0 M
cracked.com 62 60 -2 60.3 M
dailykos.com 63 51 -12 59.6 M
mashable.com 64 54 -10 59.4 M
nbcsports.com 65 67 2 59.4 M
thechive.com  66 62 -4 58.5 M
thedailybeast.com 67 58 -9 58.2 M
thestreet.com 68 85 17 53.7 M
chicagotribune.com 69 79 10 53.6 M
caranddriver.com 70 70 0 53.6 M
bbc.co.uk 71 80 9 53.3 M
tomshardware.com 72 73 1 53.0 M
littlethings.com 73 77 4 52.4 M
rotoworld.com 74 66 -8 52.4 M
arstechnica.com 75 91 16 52.1 M
deadspin.com 76 90 14 52.1 M
time.com 77 78 1 51.8 M
theatlantic.com 78 75 -3 51.8 M
msnbc.com 79 57 -22 51.3 M
foxsports.com 80 74 -6 50.2 M
scout.com 81 72 -9 49.9 M
rawstory.com 82 81 -1 48.7 M
jalopnik.com 83 98 15 48.4 M
wired.com 84 71 -13 48.4 M
digitaltrends.com 85 83 -2 48.3 M
hollywoodreporter.com 86 89 3 48.2 M
si.com 87 65 -22 46.7 M
nationalgeographic.com 88 84 -4 46.5 M
theverge.com 89 97 8 46.4 M
univision.com 90 82 -8 46.3 M
ibtimes.co.uk 91 61 -30 45.5 M
health.com 92 94 2 44.1 M
bhg.com 93 95 2 43.0 M
eonline.com 94 93 -1 42.9 M
jezebel.com 95 103 8 42.8 M
vice.com 96 88 -8 42.6 M
kotaku.com 97 99 2 42.3 M
tomsguide.com 98 96 -2 42.0 M
bostonglobe.com 99 107 8 41.6 M
theblaze.com 100 102 2 41.0 M