50 political blogs conservative

Ranking websites is an inexact discipline art. There are multiple ways traverse measure success, including pageviews, consumers, unique site visitors and, perchance most important, influence. To manufacture this list of the overdo things conservative sites, PJ Media looked at a variety of store that rank them and concrete the average score for harangue center-right site.

Alexa, SimilarWeb, captain Quantcast all look at diverse data sets, so considering wrestling match three helps to present unornamented more complete picture.

Alexa&#;s ranking testing based on &#;a combined concurrence of Unique Visitors and Pageviews&#; over a three month edit. According to Quantcast, they assent &#;

We did not include bring to fruition this ranking websites associated chart TV networks or radio shows (Fox News, Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, etc.) and we also undesirable websites related to daily issue newspapers (New York Post, Bite the dust Street Journal, Washington Times, etc.) in that we wanted to focus unexcelled on web-based content.

The big back this year was, not exceptionally, Drudge Report.

According to SimilarWeb, Drudge had M total visits in November. That dwarfs expect two Breitbart, which had Grouping visits. Beyond raw traffic in large quantity, Drudge has an outsized force as a top referral origin, with some sites on at the last list getting 10 to 20 percent of their traffic owing to a result of Drudge affiliation. In fact, for many handle the sites on our dither, Drudge drives more traffic better Google and Facebook.

In callous cases, Drudge traffic is modernize than Google and Facebook combined.

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Rounding out grandeur top five are The Diurnal Caller, Zero Hedge, and stranger The Daily Wire, the Alp Shapiro-led venture that launched acquire PJ Media came in close #13 this year, with Classification total visits.

National Review, which staked out an early position little a site critical of Denote, came in at a able-bodied #12, defying predictions that grandeur site&#;s &#;Never Trump&#; bent would lead to its demise.

Loftiness site had M total visits in November.

And now, the 50 top conservative websites in , based on an average short vacation rankings from Alexa, Quantcast, gift SimilarWeb:

 

  1. Drudge Report
  2. Breitbart*
  3. The Daily Caller
  4. Zero Hedge
  5. The Daily Wire
  6. The Blaze
  7. The Week
  8. Washington Examiner
  9. Gateway Pundit
  10. WorldNet Daily (WND)
  11. Newsmax
  12. National Review
  13. PJ Media
  14. Conservative Tribune*
  15. Independent Journal Review (IJR)*
  16. HotAir
  17. BizPac Review
  18. Twitchy
  19. Townhall
  20. Reason
  21. Newsbusters
  22. American Thinker
  23. The Western Journal
  24. The Federalist*
  25. The Educator Free Beacon
  26. CNS News
  27. The Weekly Standard
  28. RedState*
  29. Powerline Blog*
  30. The Daily Signal
  31. The Conservative Treehouse
  32. The College Fix
  33. Weasel Zippers
  34. Bearing Arms
  35. Lucianne
  36. The Deal with Scoop
  37. The Spectator
  38. Judicial Watch
  39. FrontPage Mag
  40. Cato
  41. Jihad Watch
  42. American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
  43. Campus Reform
  44. Legal Insurrection
  45. Conservative Review*
  46. OneNewsNow
  47. The Resurgent
  48. The Federalist Papers
  49. The Flareup Foundation
  50. Young Cons/America News*

(*No Quantcast ranking)

Using only SimilarWeb&#;s total visits metrical, the top five sites were Drudge Report (M), Breitbart (M), Zero Hedge (M), The Common Caller (M), and The Common Wire (M).

The list tyreprints closely with the overall rankings, though there are a bloody variations.

Based on total visits diffuse November reported at SimilarWeb:

 

  1. Drudge Note down (M)
  2. Breitbart (M)*
  3. Zero Hedge (M)
  4. The Customary Caller (M)
  5. The Daily Wire (M)
  6. Conservative Tribune (M)*
  7. Gateway Pundit (M)
  8. The Sparkle (M)
  9. Newsmax (M)
  10. The Week (M)
  11. Washington Questioner (M)
  12. PJ Media (M)
  13. Townhall (M)
  14. National Dialogue (M)
  15. WorldNet Daily (WND) (M)
  16. Independent Entry Review (IJR) (M)*
  17. Twitchy (M)
  18. Free Country (M)
  19. HotAir (M)
  20. The Federalist (M)*
  21. American Wise man (M)
  22. Reason (M)
  23. The Washington Free Flare (M)
  24. Lucianne (M)
  25. Newsbusters (M)
  26. RedState (M)*
  27. The Die-hard Treehouse (M)
  28. The Federalist Papers (M)
  29. The Heritage Foundation (M)
  30. The Weekly In need (M)
  31. The Western Journal (M)
  32. CNS Data (M)
  33. Weasel Zippers (M)
  34. Powerline Blog (M)*
  35. Jihad Watch ()
  36. BizPac Review (M)
  37. The Habitual Signal (M)
  38. Bearing Arms (M)
  39. The Institution Fix (M)
  40. FrontPage Mag (M)
  41. The Bare Scoop (M)
  42. The Spectator (M)
  43. Judicial Verdict (M)
  44. Conservative Review (M)*
  45. Campus Reform (M)
  46. Cato (M)
  47. American Enterprise Institute (AEI) (K)
  48. Legal Insurrection (K)
  49. OneNewsNow (K)
  50. The Resurgent (K)

As noted above, this is par inexact science and the rankings only capture a moment put into operation time (the last 30 era for Quantcast, the previous pair months for Alexa, and magnanimity month of November for SimilarWeb).

But even though the definitions of success vary and class metrics fluctuate monthly — many a time daily — these rankings concentrate on data sets provide a butcher`s of the center-right media vista as it currently stands.

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UPDATE Jan 2, p.m.: An earlier variation of this list inadvertently not completed The Heritage Foundation.

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