WND is now among the top 500 websites of all kinds in the U.S. and within the top 2,500 in the world, according to Alexa.com, the public ranking agency owned by Amazon.
The site ranks at 496 nationally and 2,453 globally.
Alexa ranks WND third in the category of political coverage, 656th among all U.S.-based sites, 10th in breaking news, and No. 1 among “conservatives.”
Because of the way ://URLFAN.com is structured, it measures only references to WorldNetDaily, not WND, a domain that has accounted for approximately 25 percent of the site’s traffic for several years.
“Unlike Alexa, there is no approximating in our ranking system since we’re using concrete data to generate the results,” explains ://URLFAN’s website. “://URLFAN is here to provide website publishers with a useful tool in tracking their websites and how their content is referenced by other websites. Our system parses the millions of blog posts that are generated everyday, literally counting every mention of every website we come across. We filter out spam, broken links, and other various material to determine how many times your website was mentioned today. We reference this against every other website and determine where you rank among them.”