• by Joe Mandese , March 27, 2019

Right-wing political news site Breitbart had its sixth consecutive month of losses in year-over-year unique visitors, according to the latest edition of TheRighting.

TheRighting, which tracks conservative website traffic based on a proprietary analysis of data from Comscore, found Breitbart's unique users declined 33% in February vs. the same month in 2018.

Six other conservative websites drew more uniques than Breitbart: Fox News, The Washington Examiner, National Review, The Washington Times and The Western Journal. 

"Breitbart usually ranks a strong No. 2 behind perennial conservative powerhouse Fox News," notes TheRighting's founder Howard Polskin.

Year-over-year uniques to Foxnews.com jumped 18%, its fourth consecutive month of traffic gains. Fox News had 101,896,000 uniques in February, up 15 million from a  year ago

CNN.com and the two other prominent mainstream media sites that TheRighting follows each month had relatively soft results for year-over-year unique visitors February 2019 vs. February 2018:  CNN.com (-7%), The New York Times brand (+3%) and Washingtonpost.com (-2%).  

The top five right-wing websites in February based on the total number of unique visitors are:

1. Foxnews.com (101,896,000)
2. TheBlaze (9,078,000)
3. The Washington Examiner (8,383,000)
4. National Review (6,555,000)
5. The Washington Times (6,284,000)