The Drudge Report, for the second year in a row, ran away with the competition, claiming the top spot and trouncing all other right-leaning sites by a significant margin. Other sites, like Ace of Spades HQ, were not included because they are not ranked at SimilarWeb and Alexa. The site has become an influential part of the national political dialogue - not to mention the religious landscape - so it made the list. Some might also ask why satire site The Babylon Bee, a new entrant to the list this year, was included. Because the site has an influence on the conservative/right-leaning debate, we have decided to include them here along with other sites that made an impact in 2018. There are legitimate questions about whether a site like Infowars, known to traffic in conspiracy theories, ought to be included. This list, I expect, will be no exception. With any list that attempts to rank “conservative” entities or individuals, there is always significant debate about what it means to be conservative. We also excluded websites related to print newspapers ( New York Post, Wall Street Journal, Washington Times, etc.) because we wanted to focus solely on the new media landscape. Not included in our rankings are TV/video networks (Fox News, CRTV, TheBlazeTV, etc.). SimilarWeb is less forthcoming about what they’re measuring, but according to this post at Quora, “rankings are determined by traffic - monthly visits (non-unique).” This year, we decided not to use Quantcast because a significant number of websites in our category are not quantified there.Īlexa’s rankings are based on “a combined measure of Unique Visitors and Pageviews” over a three month period. In last year’s list of the top conservative sites, we calculated the average of rankings from Quantcast, SimliarWeb, and Alexa. (Scroll down to skip the analysis and go straight to the list.)īut before we get to that, an explanation of how these rankings were compiled is in order. While there was no change in the top four, there were some sites that moved up significantly in the rankings while others fell precipitously. For the second year in a row, The Drudge Report topped PJM’s list of the top 50 conservative websites, followed by Breitbart News, The Daily Caller, and ZeroHedge.
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