• Journalism.co.uk, Thursday, August 29, 2013 3 AM

News sites are the third biggest traffic driver to other news sites, a new reporthas found. The first monthly 'authority report' was published by analytics platform Parse.ly. The report "takes a look at the state of the industry as assessed from our analytics data spanning 5 billion page views per month", John Levitt from Parse.ly told Journalism.co.uk by email. The research analysed data from "hundreds of online news publishers", all of which are Parse.ly clients, and found, perhaps unsurprisingly, that Google was the top driver of traffic in July, followed by Facebook.

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