The Top Ten Conservative News Websites of 2021 As Ranked By Searches (2024)

Here is a list of the top 10 conservative news websites in America as ranked by the estimated number of monthly searches for each site. The search volume data comes from the search engine optimization tool AHREFs. And as for what constitutes a “conservative” outlet, The Media Bias Chart® by Ad Fontes Media was referenced, which plots major news outlets on a left-to-right spectrum by assigning each a bias score.

None of the opinions or editorial decisions of the below outlets are endorsed by me or OutKick, just calling it how it is.

Onto the list, starting at No. 10:

10. The Daily Caller - Estimated Monthly Searches: 382K

Tucker Carlson and his old college roommate Neil Patel, a former advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney, founded The Daily Caller in 2010 as a conservative counter to Arianna Huffington’s rapidly ascending Huffington Post. The site grew quickly, turning a profit just two years after its creation.

Tucker became less involved with the day-to-day operations of the site in 2016 into 2017 after assuming his primetime role on Fox News, and then he stepped away all together in 2020, selling his stake back to Patel.

Since then searches for the site show a bit of a downward trajectory.

But as it still is today, The Daily Caller is a mainstream conservative news website with deep ties in Washington, whose contributors have included the likes of Newt Gingrich, Judge Jeanine Pirro, and Ann Coulter.

9. The Epoch Times - Estimated Monthly Searches: 397K

Certainly the most mysterious entry on this list. The Epoch Times was founded in 2000 by a Chinese American dissident named John Tang, who is an adherent to a new wave eastern religious movement called Falun Gong. A movement that the Chinese Communist Party sought to eliminate in the late 1990s as it enforced state sponsored atheism.

The site’s original purpose was to challenge the totalitarian rise of the Chinese Communist Party, while assisting Chinese Americans in assimilating to life in the United States.

Searches for The Epoch Times surged in April of 2020 as the site was one of the first to openly speculate about the true origin of Covid and the Chinese government’s role in potentially covering it up. Though at the time their reporting was roundly dismissed as “conspiracy theory” and “misinformation,” it increasingly seems like they may have been onto something after all.

Searches for the site surged again in November and December of 2020 as it openly challenged the credibility of the presidential election results.

8. The Daily Wire - Estimated Monthly Searches: 439K

It was Andrew Breitbart who introduced the polemical wunderkind Ben Shapiro to the business-minded producer Jeremy Boreing in 2009. After a couple job stints here and there, the pair would form The Daily Wire in 2015 with a focus on personality driven journalism and digital distribution optimization, specifically on Facebook.

That focus has proven well placed. The Daily Wire is now one of the fastest growing news outlets in the world, featuring a plethora of high profile talent such as: novelist and screenwriter Andrew Klavan, best selling author of books with no words Michael Knowles, the Virginian Matt Walsh, and the fiery Candace Owens, as well as regular collaborations with the likes of Adam Carolla and Dennis Prager.

But it is the individual starpower of Shapiro which cannot be overstated. He is perhaps the most searched for political commentator in the world, accruing some 810K searches per month. More even than Tucker Carlson and Joe Rogan.

7. The Blaze - Estimated Monthly Searches: 452K

Former Fox News personality Glenn Beck started The Blaze in 2010 before merging it with Mark Levin’s Conservative Review TV in 2018, forming The Blaze Media as we know it today.

Like The Daily Wire, The Blaze has a deep bench of conservative talent streaming on its services, including Beck himself, Dave Rubin, Jason Whitlock, Steven Crowder, Allie Beth Stuckey, and that guy from Duck Dynasty, Phil Robertson.

Since 2015 searches for The Blaze would indicate somewhat of a downtrend, but the growth in popularity of its individual personalities, especially Crowder, more than make up for it.

6. InfoWars - Estimated Monthly Searches: 974K

Say what you will about Alex Jones, and there is plenty to say, but simply put, he’s amassed a sizable following for his InfoWars.

Searches for the outlet spiked big time during both the 2016 and 2020 elections, but even in between those inflecting events, searches for the site remain steady.

5. The New York Post - Estimated Monthly Searches: 1.2M

Founded in 1801 by none other than Alexander Hamilton, as the mouthpiece for his Federalist Party, The New York Post is America’s oldest continuously published newspaper. The modern era of The Post can be traced back to 1976 when Rupert Murdoch purchased it, eventually rolling it into his News Corp. in 1993.

Recently it has been said The New York Post is the preferred newspaper of Donald Trump.

Since 2015, searches for The New York Post show steady and consistent growth. But it was in October of 2020 when searches for the site surged to all time highs. You’ll recall it was at this time when The Post published its Hunter Biden exposé, which was suppressed by big tech in an effort to protect Joe Biden just before the presidential election.

I guess this just goes to show, when you tell people they can’t see something, it only makes them want it that much more.

4. The Gateway Pundit - Estimated Monthly Searches: 2M

The Gateway Pundit was founded in 2004 by Jim Hoft to focus on the issues Heartland Americans care about and to expose the wickedness of the left. In just fifteen years Hoft took his one man blog and grew it into one of the internet’s largest destinations for conservative news and commentary.

All of this despite big tech’s best efforts to wipe the site clean off the internet. Internal Facebook reports show that The Gateway Pundit is considered a repeat misinformation offender, meaning content shared by the site is pushed to the bottom of its follower’s news feed even if engagement is high. Then Google recently demonetized Gateway Pundit’s domain by disallowing ads from serving on the site, resulting in hundreds of thousands of lost dollars for Hoft and his site. And don’t forget about Twitter, which permanently banned Hoft’s personal account from the platform in early 2021.

But no matter, searches for the site are consistently up and to the right and went absolutely wild in December of 2020 as speculation around election integrity hit a crescendo.

3. Breitbart - Estimated Monthly Searches: 2.2M

You might say Andrew Breitbart is the single most important figure in the formation of conservatism as we know it today. He was the first to act on and popularize the observation that politics is downstream from culture. Winning elections is necessary and good. But the culture is the real prize.

The news outlet he founded under his namesake in 2007 was all predicated on that belief. And it quickly became the conservative vanguard in the culture war. The site would go on to give a number of influential if controversial conservatives a platform, including Ben Shapiro, Milo Yiannopoulos, and Steve Bannon.

Today the site is still a conservative cornerstone, showing consistently high levels of search volume under the guidance of now editor-in-chief Alex Marlow.

2. Newsmax - Estimated Monthly Searches: 3.8M

Founded in 1998 by Christopher Ruddy, Newsmax has always aspired to stand on equal footing with the gargantuan Fox News. And though that aspiration is unlikely to materialize anytime soon, on election night in November of 2020, Fox News did indeed grant Newsmax an opening.

You may recall how some conservatives became disenchanted with Fox News after the network announced that the key-swing-state of Arizona would be won by Biden when only 73% of the state’s votes were in. That call for Biden came in hours before the Associated Press and days before most major networks made the same declaration.

Even though it ended up being the right call, the timing and optics frustrated plenty of viewers. Viewers who then turned to Newsmax.

As it was then and in the days immediately after, searches for Newsmax soared. And while those searches have since slowed, Newsmax now has a baseline level of search volume that is easily 5x what it was prior to the election.

1. Fox News - 33M

What else is there to say that hasn’t already been said? Fox News amasses triple the number of searches than the rest of this list combined. And its search trajectory is steady, consistently up and to the right.

The Top Ten Conservative News Websites of 2021 As Ranked By Searches (2024)

FAQs

What is the most popular conservative news website? ›

In September 2023, Fox News ranked first among the most popular multiplatform conservative and right-wing websites in the United States with over 78.6 million unique visitors from mobile and desktop connections.

Which newspapers are conservative? ›

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  • National Catholic Register.
  • The New Atlantis (journal)
  • New Hampshire Union Leader.
  • New York City Tribune.
  • New York Post.
  • The New York Sun.
  • News Corporation.
  • Newsmax.

Which is the best website for news? ›

Our Top 10 Best News Websites in 2024:
  • The New York Times - Best news website overall.
  • CNN - Best for breaking news.
  • Reuters - Best for breaking news stories.
  • Wall Street Journal - Best for business news.
  • BBC - Best for unbiased coverage.
  • NPR - Best for in-depth commentary.

What is the conservative news station? ›

Fox News has been described as conservative media, and as providing biased reporting in favor of conservative political positions, the Republican Party, and President Donald Trump. Political scientist Jonathan Bernstein described Fox News as an expanded part of the Republican Party.

What is the most untrustworthy news source? ›

By this measure, The Weather Channel persists as the most trusted news source, as it was in 2022 and 2023: Americans are 43 percentage points more likely to call The Weather Channel trustworthy as they are to call it untrustworthy. The Weather Channel is followed by two public broadcasters: the BBC (+25) and PBS (+22).

Does CNN lean left or right? ›

CNN Digital
Bias RatingLean Left
TypeNews Media
RegionNational
OwnerTurner Broadcasting System
Established1980
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What is the most unbiased news source? ›

AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. Four billion people see AP journalism every day.

What is the right leaning media? ›

New right-leaning media outlets, including Breitbart News, NewsMax, and WorldNetDaily have instead a core mission to promote a conservative or right-wing agenda, often (unlike The Wall Street Journal and other mainstream conservative journals) supporting a hierarchy based on race, religion, nationality, or gender.

How reliable is the Guardian? ›

In an Ipsos MORI research poll in September 2018 designed to interrogate the public's trust of specific titles online, The Guardian scored highest for digital-content news, with 84% of readers agreeing that they "trust what [they] see in it".

What is the most read news website in the US? ›

1. The New York Times. The New York Times provides breaking news, multimedia, reviews & opinion on Washington, business, sports, movies, travel, books, jobs, education, real estate, cars & more.

What is the best site to get it news? ›

The best places to find out about technology news and learn more about the tech world are:
  • TechCrunch.
  • The Next Web.
  • Wired.
  • Tech2.
  • Gizmodo.
  • Mashable.
  • The Verge.
  • Digital Trends.
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What is the best news search engine? ›

The best free news search engines
  • Google News. The most popular news search engine, or rather news search engines, are undoubtedly Google News. ...
  • Google News Archive Search. ...
  • Yahoo! News. ...
  • Topix. ...
  • Bing News.

What type of news station is Newsmax? ›

Newsmax, Inc.

(or Newsmax.com, previously styled NewsMax) is an American cable news, political opinion commentary, and digital media company founded by Christopher Ruddy in 1998. It has been variously described as conservative, right-wing, and far-right.

What is the first conservative channel? ›

The First, also called The First TV and stylized as The F1rst, is a conservative opinion and commentary network in the United States started in October 2019. It has five hosts, including Bill O'Reilly.

Is NPR a conservative radio station? ›

NPR has been accused of displaying both liberal bias – as alleged in work such as a UCLA and University of Missouri study of Morning Edition – and conservative bias, including criticism of alleged reliance on conservative think-tanks.

Who is a popular conservative news personality? ›

Media personalities: publishers, editors, radio hosts, columnists and bloggers
NameLifetimeNotability
Sean Hannity1961–host of Hannity and The Sean Hannity Show
Ann Coulter1961–political commentator
Laura Ingraham1963–Fox News and talk radio commentator
Adam Carolla1964–
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What is the most read news website? ›

Top 15 News Sites In 2024
  • 1. Yahoo! News. Yahoo! News is the number one pick in our selection. ...
  • Google News. Google News falls right behind Yahoo News in terms of popularity, which places it right on the number 2 ranking in our list. ...
  • CNN. ...
  • The New York Times. ...
  • MSN. ...
  • Fox News. ...
  • NBC News. ...
  • HuffPost.
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What is the American conservative newspaper? ›

The American Conservative (TAC) is a magazine published by the American Ideas Institute which was founded in 2002.

What publications do conservatives read? ›

Pages in category "Conservative magazines published in the United States"
  • The American (magazine)
  • American Affairs.
  • The American Catholic Quarterly Review.
  • The American Conservative.
  • The American Enterprise.
  • The American Interest.
  • The American Mercury.
  • American Outlook.

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