Most Searched and Visited News Sites by U.S. State

January 5, 2022 Alex

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Yahoo rated number one and is the most visited news website in the United States in November 2021, accompanied by CNN as the runner-up, and MSN ranking at third place as the leaders of the news websites in the U.S.

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The best U.S. news websites, according to FeedSpot.
The most popular news websites according to YouGovAmerica
Top 10 the most searched news websites
Most Searched News Websites by State
Do people trust the news?

Below are the top 10 news sites compared when ranked by traffic, social media followers, domain authority & freshness.

The best U.S. news websites, according to FeedSpot.

Rank	News Website	Facebook subscribers	Twitter followers	Instagram followers	Posts per day
1	CNN	34.6M	55.6M	10M	26
2	The New York Times	17.8M	44.7M		19
3	The Huffington Post	12.2M		2.4M	16
4	Fox News	18.9M	18.5M	4.3M	30
5	USA Today	8.5M	4.5M	1.6M	15
6	Politico	1.9M	4M	951K	10
7	Yahoo News	7.6M	1.1M	159.8K	19
8	NPR News	6.7M	8.8M	2.7M	9
9	Los Angeles Times	2.9M	3.5M	369.5K	3
10	Breitbart News Network	4.5M	1.2M	26.7K	24

Here are the most popular news websites according to YouGovAmerica based on over 20 million responses,

The most popular news websites according to YouGovAmerica

Rank	News Website	Fame (have heard of), %	Popularity (liked by), %	Disliked by, %	Neutral
1	Yahoo News	97	52	17	28
2	NBC	94	47	20	28
3	CBC News	95	45	21	29
4	CNN	94	43	30	21
5	NBC News	91	39	22	29
6	CNBC	91	39	24	29
7	ESPN	93	38	22	33
8	The Washington Post	86	38	21	27
9	The Huffington Post	84	37	21	26
10	Fox News	95	37	39	18

Yahoo News is the most searched news website across the country regarding unique monthly visitors.

Top 10 the most searched news websites

Rank	News Website	Unique Monthly Visitors
1	Yahoo News	175M
2	Google News	150M
3	The Huffington Post	110M
4	CNN	95M
5	The New York Times	70M
6	Fox News	65M
7	NBC News	63M
8	MailOnline	53M
9	The Washington Post	47M
10	The Guardian	42M

Most Searched News Websites by State

The United States is known to have considerable differences at the state-by-state level. The map below shows each state’s most searched news site based on each state’s highest popularity score on Google.

The Most Searched News Site by U.S. state

Yahoo News was the most searched news website in 12 U.S. states.

News Website	State Search Popularity
Yahoo News	12
Fox News	11
USA Today	10
CNN	7
ABC News	5
Google News	3
NBC News	3
BBC News	2

Americans get their news in various forms, but social media is a growing popular option. A survey showed that 55% of Twitter users consistently used the website for news, and Facebook and Reddit were also favored for news consumption among their users.

However, social media is the least trusted news source in the U.S. But users continue to use social media for news consumption because social networks allow them to get their news passively while scrolling through different content.

Do people trust the news?

Worldwide the United States ranks well below most major nations based on trust in news media.

Trust in the news has become increasingly essential to the American news consumer among the spread of fake news.

According to Knight Foundation, in 1994, 35% of consumers had quite a “lot of trust” in the news. In 2020, just 18% of respondents to a survey analyzing the perceived a lot of trust in the news.