Only The Free Press Increases Traffic as Other Sites Sag
Traffic to every right-wing news website but one dropped precipitously in March, according to TheRighting’s exclusive analysis of mobile and desktop traffic based on Similarweb data. Only the Bari Weiss-cofounded Free Press registered an increase in year-over-year (YOY) visits.
The Free Press attracted 4.7 million visits in March 2026, up from 4.4 million in March 2025.
“It’s surprising that more eyeballs weren’t driven to right-wing news websites after the February 28 start of the war with Iran,” said Howard Polskin, President, TheRighting. “Year-over-year visits are down almost completely across the board. It’s especially unexpected because March 2025 was not a month with many headline-grabbing events. This could represent a wave of consumer news avoidance signifying that audiences are fatigued from the constant noise and drama of the Trump administration.”
Of the three mainstream news websites TheRighting tracks on a monthly basis, only CNN registered a March YOY increase (+3%). The Washington Post (-24%) and the NY Times (-.6%) both declined. NBCnews.com, which TheRighting tracks intermittently, had its second straight month of YOY increases in visits (+15%), probably the result of intense audience interest in the disappearance of the mother of “Today Show” anchor Savannah Guthrie.
YOY Losers and Winners Among Top 20 Right-Wing News Websites, March 2026
(by percentage decrease of visits from year ago)
Winner
–The Free Press (+7%)
Losers
–The Federalist (-55%)
–The Washington Times (-53%)
–Daily Wire (-50%)
Visits Jump from February to March
Every right-wing news website in TheRighting’s top 20 experienced a traffic surge from February 2026 to March 2026. The month-to-month increases were led by the Daily Signal (+36%), Truth Social (+23%), and Infowars (+21%). CNN led all news websites tracked by TheRighting, with visits growing 26% in that period.
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.
