The New York Times was the fastest growing website among the Top 10 news sites worldwide for number of visits in March. Visits to the site of the U.S. daily were up 76% year-on-year to 662.1m, according to data provided to Press Gazette by digital intelligence platform Similarweb. The New York Times’ surge in popularity is likely to have been in part driven by its acquisition in January of the highly popular word game Wordle.
It was followed by dailymail.co.uk (393.7m visits, up 17%) and CNN’s sites (cnn.com and edition.cnn.com) (805.7m visits, up 17%).
Yahoo Finance was the only Top 10 site that saw a year-on-year fall in traffic (visits were down 17% to 273.2m).
