Foxnews.com Records Hefty Spike in January Traffic

February 28,  2023, New York, NY – Year-over-year (YOY) traffic to Foxnews.com jumped 34% in January 2023, more than any other major right wing website, according to TheRighting’s exclusive analysis of mobile and desktop traffic based on Comscore data.  The website attracted 100,523,000 unique visitors, a 25.5 million increase compared to its January 2022 audience.  It was the second month in a row of audience growth after almost of a year of declines.

“Fox News appears to have attracted visitors drawn to the ongoing spectacle surrounding Kevin McCarthy’s tumultuous bid to become Speaker of the House, Biden’s mishandling of classified documents and the breaking news about the two mass shootings in California,” said Howard Polskin, President and Chief Curator, TheRighting. “The news environment a  year ago lacked the drama and strife that characterized last month.” 

Winners and Losers Among Top 20 Conservative News Websites for January 2023

(by unique visitor percentage increase/decrease from year ago)

Winners

·      Fox News (+34%)

·      Washington Examiner (+28%)

·      Epoch Times (+26%)

Losers

·      The Federalist (-76%)

·      Breitbart (-62%)

·      Townhall (-56%)

TheRighting follows three mainstream news brands.  Both The New York Times brand (+16%) and CNN.com (+6%) posted YOY audience increases.  The Washington Post sagged 12%.   CNN led all news websites tracked by TheRighting with 140,118,000 unique visitors in January. 

The Truth About Truth Social Traffic

Donald Trump’s Truth Social website saw its month-to-month traffic drop slightly from 3,583,000 in December 2022 to 3,393,000 in January 2023, a dip of 5%.  YOY comparisons will not be available until next month.   

Here are the January 2023 unique visitors for the five conservative-friendly social media platforms TheRighting follows: 

·      Rumble (7,198,000; -19% vs year ago)

·      Truth Social  (3,393,000; year-ago data NA)

·      MeWe (1,050,000; -25% vs year ago)

·      Gettr (363,000; -81% vs year ago)

·      Parler (150,000; -79% vs year ago)

Each month, TheRighting examines Comscore data on dozens of prominent conservative websites that post original content.  TheRighting ranks the top 20 conservative websites on the basis of unique visitors and also provides data on whether unique visitors have increased or decreased year-over-year. 

Source: Comscore Media Metrix® Multi-Platform, Custom-defined list, including, but not limited to Foxnews.com, Breitbart.com, DailyCaller.com, WashingtonExaminer.com, WesternJournal.com, Washingtontimes.com, Total Digital Audience, January 2023, U.S.

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