An independent Web-based traffic-ranking service reports WorldNetDaily has entered the top 500 websites in the world based on total visitors.
TrafficRanking.com shows WorldNetDaily ranked currently as the 495th largest website of any kind in the world.
The new ranking reflects an explosion of the site’s traffic, according to other Web-ranking services as well as WorldNetDaily’s own internal statistics, said Joseph Farah, editor and chief executive officer.
Just last week, WorldNetDaily reported the site had streaked up some 321 places in the last three months to join the top 750 largest websites in the world, according to the public rankings of Alexa.com. That figure is based on a three-month average. Yesterday, WND moved up to 710 in the quarterly rankings. More recent daily and weekly rankings on Alexa.com also show WorldNetDaily among the top 500 websites.
It was just in January that WorldNetDaily announced it had joined the top 1,000 most heavily trafficked websites on the Alexa.com charts. Alexa.com is a ratings and website search partner of Amazon.com. Yesterday’s Alexa ranking of WorldNetDaily worldwide among all websites was 443.
WorldNetDaily now is surpassing the following sites in daily traffic: Los Angeles Times, Salon.com, the Financial Times, Forbes and the New York Post.
“There are only a handful of U.S.-based newssites substantially larger than WorldNetDaily,” explains Joseph Farah, editor and chief executive officer. “They include CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, the Washington Post, USA Today, ABC News, Fox News – all major corporate conglomerates. Only Drudge Report of the news-oriented enterprises designed explicitly for the Internet is larger than WorldNetDaily.” Drudge is currently ranked 296.
Farah points out, WorldNetDaily is actually significantly larger in total traffic than its Alexa rankings indicate. Most of the site’s revenue is produced through e-commerce activities on its shopping site, ShopNetDaily. But ShopNetDaily’s traffic is ranked separately. By itself, WorldNetDaily’s store often ranks in the top 20,000 websites in the world. If Alexa counted this traffic as WorldNetDaily traffic, it would propel the site significantly higher.
According to other ratings agencies, WorldNetDaily also remains No. 1 among all newssites in time spent per user, a distinction it has held for at least three years.
“Our people live on the site,” says Farah. “While CNN and MSNBC have audiences that are a mile wide, their support is only an inch deep. WorldNetDaily’s 4.5 million unique readers are passionate about their news choice, and they prove it by spending hours on the site every month.”
In addition, for nearly two years, WorldNetDaily ranked as the “most popular website in the world” in rankings by the independent European website Global100.com. The Global100.com weekly poll, participated in by Internet surfers worldwide, measured popularity and reader loyalty. Founded in 1993 by software engineer Jurgen Appelo of The Netherlands, the service began as WorldCharts.com – a weekly, global top-100 list of the most popular PC games. WorldNetDaily dominated the Global100.com charts until the day the company shut down in 2001.
