Hitwise has released a ranking of some of the top news sites, measured by traffic on Election Day. CNN.com came out on top, seeing a 146 percent spike over the day before. But MSNBC.com, Fox News, and the Drudge report all saw nice bumps as well. ABCNews.com had a record day, with a 113 percent jump in traffic over the day before. And CNN’s Political Ticker blog by itself saw a 122 percent jump. (Twitter traffic rose 43 percent and traffic to Twitter Election 2008 rose 1,100 percent).
Some sites, amazingly saw declines from the day before, such as Time.com (-21%), Current TV(-53%), and Slate (-33%).
Here is a list of the top election news sites (you can see all the stats in the table below):
1.Yahoo News
2. CNN
3. MSNBC
4. Google News
5. FOXNews
6. Drudge Report
7. The New York Times
8. FOXNews.com Elections
9. USA Today
10. ABCnews.com
11. The Huffington Post
12. AOL News
13. Real Clear Politics
14. The Washington Post
15. CNN Political Ticker
16. CBSNews.com
17. Time
18. Electoral Vote Predictor
19. The Politico
20. MSN Election 09
21. Townhall.com
22. Free Republic
23. Daily Kos
24. Current TV
25. Slate
26. FiveThirtyEight
27. Michelle Malkin
Conspicuously missing from this list are the news sites provided by search engines Yahoo, Google and AOL. If these were included, Yahoo News would take the top spot above CNN with a 55% increase in traffic and 0.72% market share. Google News would take 4th place behind MSNBC with a 58% increase, and AOL News would come in at 12th place behind The Huffington Post with a mere 19% increase. Update: I’ve inserted those three in the rankings above)
Hang on, where’s Yahoo?
How can this list not even have a mention of news.yahoo.com ? this is pathetic…you left out the most visited news site…whats the point in taking a look at the rest…its sad how u guys completely ignore yahoo and its products all the time though quite a few of them are doing a kick-ass job! bring yahoo! news on this list please!
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yesterday, I saw many of my colleagues clicking on yahoo election dashboard, and it is not even on the list?
drudge report i dont get the hype they link to other sites content .
Drudge is GREAT! They post links to the most interesting articles. AND they’re not things like fingers found in food; they actually talk about the world around the United States.
That is why you are a dropout.
But Drudgereport DOES lean RIGHT and represents this decade’s surge in conservativism. So there are imbalances even to their choices of interesting articles. One example of their loyalties was their coverage of Obama’s historic victory: it was low key, almost embarrassingly so.
As opposed to the blatant overstating and criminal omission in stories reported and not reported by CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC, NPR and the liberal dailies and weekly pubs. (yes I know I omitted Fox News..and so did the UCLA study stating they really were “fair and balanced”)
I was constantly amazed at what the sheep who were all moon eyed over Obama DIDN’T know about their candidate. The hysterical claims regarding Palin and McCain and ignorance, sometimes willfully about Obama. At least I supported McCain in spite of his many failings because I knew what they were and chose the lesser of two evils.
I had hoped my kids, who by the way supported Obama and were as ignorant as anyone else about him, wouldn’t have to endure another Jimmy Carter but it seems each generation has difficulty learning from the previous one. Their indoctrination in college is the likely culprit for their attitude or the cult of personality we have from the sludge that passes for entertainment on TV.
Government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take it all away from you. Keep your eyes open because unless Obama really is the Messiah, he can’t possibly live up to the hype or deliver on his promises.
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Twitter exploded last night! The numbers pulled in by CNN was unbelievable! My next question is, What is the record number of visitors pulled in by one website in one day? Did the traffic last night break any records?
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I’ve always had issues with Hitwise as a serious research organisation. Publishing a list of the “top news sites” and leaving out two of the top ten (including #1) doesn’t really help…
how can hitwise miss google, yahoo & aol.. was it intentional?
Ranking becomes incomplete without these three (Google, Yahoo, AOL) not being on the list.
Maybe Google and Yahoo! were left off the list because they are purely news aggregators and offer no original content of their own. (Not that the “real” news sources have been doing much of their own work for years anyways.)
Although I guess a “site” is a “site”. Fuck content.
God bless Google… we can now read the same AP article six billion different ways.
last i checked, huff po, RCP and Drudge are aggregators too. Whats the difference.
huffpo produces reams of original content, unlike drudge, which is 99.9% aggregator
cnn and msnbc did a great job analyzing and providing election results and exit polls. Yahoo was slower, later and less info
is AP not big to be in top 12?
Everything on Google and Yahoo is AP.
I Love drudge! Also Breitbart.com for my news.
This election is historic for two reasons: the election of an African-American president and confirmation of the rapid downfall of print media circulation. Newspapers aren’t necessarily losing readers, they’re just losing them to their Internet sites and that’s where the advertising dollars of the future will be made.
Did you track the following:
http://www.intrade.com
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com
fivethirtyeight.com is a stat site that was almost perfect and intrade showed where the betters were putting their money.
Want to know what’s wrong with this country? People that list Drudge and Breitbart as their source of “news.” As newspapers go under, there are literally people who claim Fox and Drudge as their only conduits to the outside. Reading the opinion boards on these goofball sites gives you an idea just how backward this nation still is. And talk radio seems to be inciting their listeners to potential violence. The far right has declared war on America. God help us.
you are crazy
Thought the you guys didn’t believe in God. And yes, we have declared war on the New Changed America.
Goddamn The United Islamic Socialist States of American!!!
get over it. America rejected, with a landslide, your neanderthal, theocon, rightwing values and mindset. Love it or leave it repug
Ahem…those sites get you complete news…I suppose you get yours filtered from CNN and the like.
And yes, we are declaring war against liberalism…we are tired of you people stealing from us and indoctrinating our children with your lack of morals.
Seen any black helicopters today? Are we supposed to just read the Washington ComPost or NY Times Obama? I did and kept finding their OpEd on the front page.
There are plenty of examples where conservativism was successful and precious few where socialism and liberalism worked. Conservativism fails when we stop being conservative. African Americans would wield a whole lot more power if they held the rights feet to the fire and made them walk the walk of conservativism and not pander to those seeking to keep them as “slaves” to liberalism with a stipend and no opportunity. Things mean less to you if they are given, guaranteed and free.
Yahoo is going down.
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Yet another anti-Yahoo post by this website.
Is it TechCrunch editorial policy to try to damage that business?
Four years ago after the election…online new went the opposite – it went way down. Now everyone is online – either because they are mad or they are happy about the election results.
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Drudge only links to other sources, Reuters, Yahoo, Breitbart, and local papers as well, true. But WHY the hell is it known as a conservative site? I saw a study that said it was among the least partisan. Some left-tards in the tin foil hats don’t care about facts. The far from center, both directions, are going to ruin this country.
because perception is the new reality. Kerry made patronizing remarks regarding Fox News and the liberals this cycle refused to debate on their channel. WHat are they afraid of, another “Joe The Plumber” moment wherein they are forced to plug holes in their platform or answer questions that aren’t softballs from faux journalist who are getting tingles down their legs ove rtheir candidate?
Conservativism wasn’t defeated this time because it wasn’t on the ticket. We just proved you really can buy an election and the Federal Election Commissioin is a farce.
Personally, as a completely unbiased observer, I think the most compelling, unique, and balanced political news can be found on http://www.CNSNews.com.
Craig Bannister
Communications Director
CNSNews.com
What about newsmax.com?
Did the PBS.org site not make the cut?
Drudge has become the National Enquirer blog of the right, can’t take it seriously, same as Fox news…talking points for the Bush administration/conservative base. They will both continue to slide as their alarmist propaganda continues to fall flat and is rejected by the majority. I haven’t looked at Drudge for several weeks because of the obvious bias, finally checked today to see how he was slanting the Obama victory. I got my answer and I won’t be back. What is the purpose of running an outdated black and white photo today of Michelle Obama with a grimace and stance that your targeted audience will gleefully interpret as “militant” ?
So don’t go back. STOP WHINING!
BTW saw the picture you are refering to and there is NO grimace. Considerinig her statements about this being a downright mean country, her college thesis material and not being proud of this country until it nominated her husband, they were extremely gracious in their choice of pictures. Stick you head back in the sand (if that’s where you keep it…I doubt it) and STOP WHINING! YOU WON! Or are you starting to realize he can’t be the all powerful Messiah he portrayed himself as? Be careful what you ask for.
Huffinton Post is a hateful leftist site. Lots of strange people who hate anyone who did not vote for Obama.
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what about the Arabic news sites like news.maktoob.com ? i wish you can do some analysis and comparison in the future between the arabic news sites.