WorldNetDaily.com officially joined the top 500 websites in the world this week, according to the independent traffic ranking service Alexa.com.
The new Alexa ranking, based on traffic over the last three months, was released this week. According to Alexa, a subsidiary of Amazon.com, WorldNetDaily is now ranked as the 491st largest website in the world.
Other Web-based traffic-ranking services show WorldNetDaily even higher than Alexa.
The new Alexa ranking reflects an explosion of the site’s traffic, confirmed by WorldNetDaily’s own internal statistics, said Joseph Farah, editor and chief executive officer.
WorldNetDaily’s ranking on Alexa has climbed 120 places in the last three months.
“There are only a handful of U.S.-based newssites substantially larger than WorldNetDaily,” explains Farah. “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 222.
Farah points out, WorldNetDaily actually is 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 25,000 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.
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.
