B
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35%
35% -- referral traffic share for Top 25 US news websites (2011)
Referral traffic (traffic from links) accounts for 35% to 40% of total traffic to the top 25 US news websites.
- Reported as a range: 35 - 40%
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Value
35%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2011
Entity
Sample Size
25
Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
60
Freshness
95
Source
Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism
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Tier B
http://www.editorsweblog.org/2011/05/09/a-pew-center-study-into-online-news-reading-more-traffic-fro… ↗
Source Article
Editors Weblog - A Pew Center study into online news reading: more traffic from Facebook but Google is still top referrer
Original Research
Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism
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Methodology
Source reports a range of 35-40%; midpoint 37.5 used. Based on 9 months of Nielsen Company audience data analyzed by Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism.
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Top 25 US news websites: 35% referral traffic share. Source: Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism (2011). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/top25-us-news-referral-traffic-share
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