Ranking websites is an inexact science. There are multiple ways to measure success, including pageviews, users, unique site visitors and, perhaps most important, influence. To create this list of the top conservative sites, PJ Media looked at a variety of sources that rank them and determined the average score for each center-right site. Alexa, SimilarWeb, and Quantcast all look at different data sets, so considering all three helps to present a more complete picture.
Alexa's ranking is based on "a combined measure of Unique Visitors and Pageviews" over a three month period. According to Quantcast, they measure "
We did not include in this ranking websites associated with TV networks or radio shows (Fox News, Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, etc.) and we also excluded websites related to daily print newspapers (New York Post, Wall Street Journal, Washington Times, etc.) because we wanted to focus solely on web-based content.
The big winner this year was, not surprisingly, Drudge Report. According to SimilarWeb, Drudge had 157.06M total visits in November. That dwarfs number two Breitbart, which had 82.75M visits. Beyond raw traffic numbers, Drudge has an outsized influence as a top referral source, with some sites on our list getting 10 to 20 percent of their traffic as a result of Drudge links. In fact, for many of the sites on our list, Drudge drives more traffic than Google and Facebook. In some cases, Drudge traffic is more than Google and Facebook combined.
Rounding out the top five are The Daily Caller, Zero Hedge, and newcomer The Daily Wire, the Ben Shapiro-led venture that launched in 2015. PJ Media came in at #13 this year, with 12.59M total visits.
National Review, which staked out an early position as a site critical of Trump, came in at a robust #12, defying predictions that the site's "Never Trump" bent would lead to its demise. The site had 9.25M total visits in November.
And now, the 50 top conservative websites in 2017, based on an average of rankings from Alexa, Quantcast, and SimilarWeb:
Using only SimilarWeb's total visits metric, the top five sites were Drudge Report (157.06M), Breitbart (82.75M), Zero Hedge (50.56M), The Daily Caller (25.33M), and The Daily Wire (23.23M). The list tracks closely with the overall rankings, though there are a few variations.
Based on total visits in November reported at SimilarWeb:
Drudge Report (157.06M)
Breitbart (82.75M)*
Zero Hedge (50.56M)
The Daily Caller (25.33M)
The Daily Wire (23.23M)
Conservative Tribune (18.74M)*
The Blaze (16.32M)
Newsmax (14.79M)
The Week (14.17M)
Washington Examiner (14.09M)
PJ Media (12.59M)
Townhall (10.38M)
National Review (9.25M)
WorldNet Daily (WND) (9.22M)
Independent Journal Review (IJR) (8.17M)*
Twitchy (5.85M)
Free Republic (5.84M)
HotAir (5.69M)
The Federalist (5.61M)*
American Thinker (5.17M)
Reason (4.7M)
The Washington Free Beacon (4.47M)
Lucianne (4.45M)
Newsbusters (4.29M)
RedState (3.85M)*
The Conservative Treehouse (3.76M)
The Federalist Papers (3.64M)
The Weekly Standard (3.21M)
The Western Journal (3.03M)
CNS News (2.86M)
Weasel Zippers (2.72M)
Powerline Blog (2.57M)*
Jihad Watch (2.36)
BizPac Review (2.34M)
The Daily Signal (2.26M)
Bearing Arms (2.07M)
The College Fix (1.86M)
FrontPage Mag (1.66M)
The Right Scoop (1.37M)
The Spectator (1.2M)
Judicial Watch (1.18M)
Conservative Review (1.11M)*
Campus Reform (1.05M)
Cato (1.04M)
American Enterprise Institute (AEI) (930.1K)
Legal Insurrection (909.5K)
OneNewsNow (594.1K)
The Resurgent (371.5K)
Young Cons (249K)*
As noted above, this is an inexact science and the rankings only capture a moment in time (the last 30 days for Quantcast, the previous three months for Alexa, and the month of November for SimilarWeb). But even though the definitions of success vary and the metrics fluctuate monthly often daily these rankings and data sets provide a glimpse of the center-right media landscape as it currently stands.
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And what "part" or role is Trump "trying to play"?? I mean the guy IS President. And doing what Presidents are elected to do (for ALL Americans.) Unless you can cite a policy that isn't and more like King 0bama?
At his core Trump is a NYC Bernie Bro, big government nanny state progressive thug.
You can't possibly prove this hyperbolic charge ad comparison to either Comrade Bernie, Herr Bloomberg, or claim that Trump is either a Prog-Thug OR Nanny-Stater.
I want YOU in your own words to explain what YOU feel. And what you see. You're merely taking someone else's argument/case and subbing it as your own.
Who cares about labels? Or what Trump has said in the past? What matters is what he's been doing as Prez, his vision and accomplishments. This is about an ideology of MAGA.
Remember -- The man still must deal with Globalists, Leftists, Party-People, members of Congress owned by Lobbyists, Saudis, the Homo-Fascists enablers, Muzzie-Enablers, Snowflake-Enablers, the treacherous GOPe, Commie-Dems, the Uni-Party element -- and he's got to get a majority of them to legislate MAGA.
Already the accomplishments of Trump are reversing the Poppy-Clinton-Dubya-0bama NWO trashing and globalizing of the USA. FACT. REALITY. That makes Trump the Real-Deal.
As far as you can see thus far, is Trump making good on his promises to "Make-America-Greater" thus far? Are we in much better shape than a year ago? 8? 16? 24 years? Yes or no?
In your opinion or from what you recall since Clinton's Presidency (or during Poppy/Dubya/0bama respective regimes), were there any policies or agenda that were positive? HELPED America be great? (think about it...Thanks.)