PJ Media was the only right-wing news website tracked by TheRighting that increased its year-over-year (YOY) visits in December. According to TheRighting’s exclusive analysis of mobile and desktop traffic based on Similarweb data, PJ Media attracted 4.9 million visits in December, up 5% from December 2024 when PJ Media had 4.7 million visits.
For the second month in a row, YOY visits sagged to The Free Press, the right-titling news and opinion website co-founded by Bari Weiss. Last month, The FP had 3.8 million visits last month, compared to 4.7 million visits in December 2024.
“Trafffic-wise, it was a lousy month for all websites, right, left and mainstream,” said Howard Polskin, President, TheRighting. “I expect YOY visits to remain soft in January 2026 because they will be compared to January 2025, when Donald Trump began his second term as President of the United States.”
Among the three mainstream news websites TheRighting tracks on a monthly basis, The New York Times registered the lowest decrease in YOY visits (-1%), followed by Fox News (-19%) and The Washington Post (-21%).
YOY Winners and Losers Among Top 20 Right-Wing News Websites, December 2025
(by percentage increase/decrease of visits from year ago)
Winner
–PJ Media (+5%)
Losers
–Washington Examiner (-53%)
–Daily Wire (-53%)
–Outkick (-44%)
A Note About Methodology
TheRighting uses data from Similarweb, the digital market intelligence company, to measure visits to websites. Until its December 2024 report, TheRighting relied on data from Comscore which measured unique visitors to websites.
