• by Ray Schultz , December 25, 2023

The top 10 news websites all suffered traffic declines in November YoY while sites close to the Israel-Hamas war saw impressive growth, according to a study by the UK’s Press Gazette. 

The titles, and their reported slumps, included: 

• finance yahoo.com: -10%
• dailymail.co.uk: -11%
• news.yahoo.com:--12%
• bbc.co.uk & bbb.com: -16%
• nytimes.com: 18%
• theguardian.com: -18%
• news.google.com: -19%
• cnn.com: -25%
• foxnews.com: 26%
• msn.com: 28%

Perhaps not surprisingly given recent events, the some of the strongest growth YoY was seen by the English-language Times of Israel site and Al Jazeera:  

• times.ofisrael.com: 429% 
• newsweek.com: 71% 
• aljazeera.com: 69%
• livemint.com: 26%
• indiatimes.com: 26% 
• independent.com.uk: 25% 
• forbes.com: 19% 
• hindustantimes.com: 17% 
• news18.com: 14% 
• indiatoday.in: 10%

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