The Washington Examiner Registers Ninth Consecutive Month of Audience Increases
October 21, 2019, New York, NY – The Washington Examiner extended its streak of nine consecutive months of steep year-over-year (YOY) increases in unique visitors, based on the TheRighting’s exclusive analysis of September desktop and mobile traffic from Comscore. The Examiner experienced a sharp 142% uptick in September traffic compared to September 2018, according to Comscore data, making it the sixth time in 2019 that the Examiner posted a triple-digit gains. Uniques visitors surged from just under to six million a year ago to 14,359,000 last month.
TheBlaze recorded its eleventh straight month of growth in unique visitors. With nearly six million uniques in September, it became the third highest-ranked conservative website for the month behind the Examiner (14,359,000) and perennial leader Foxnews.com (95,170,000).
Breitbart dipped 30% in YOY traffic making it the 28th time in the last 29 months that the influential conservative website has lost audience. The Gateway Pundit also stumbled, registering a YOY traffic loss of 61%. It was the eighth month of losses in 2019 for the website.
“Another month of huge traffic gains helped cement the Examiner’s position as one of the major success stories in conservative media this year,” said Howard Polskin, president and chief curator, TheRighting. “September also marked another month of significant increases of millions of unique visitors to three major mainstream news websites because of noteworthy news events like the revelations about the Ukrainian phone call. More audiences may have been seeking original reporting and analysis about the unsettled political landscape from sources that have been considered trustworthy for decades.”
Among the three leading US mainstream news brands, CNN attracted 14 million more YOY uniques in September for a 13% change; the New York Times was up 7.5 million (+9% change); and the Washington Post increased three million (+4% change).
Leaders and Laggards Among Top 20 Conservative Websites for September 2019
(by unique visitor percentage increase/decrease from year ago)
Leaders:
· Washington Examiner (+142%)
· TheBlaze (+49%)
· Hot Air (+39%)
Laggards:
· The Gateway Pundit (-61%)
· Western Journal (-36%)
· Daily Caller (-36%)
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. That information is posted on the Metrics section of TheRighting’s website.
TheRighting also publishes an A-Z Guide to Right-Wing Media on its website and updates it regularly. The guide features descriptions about prominent right-wing media websites.
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, September 2019, U.S.
