The most popular news sites in traffic, more readers Facebook Twitter [STATS]

Facebook is a valuable source of traffic for news sites, like Twitter on top, according to the Pew Research Center poll released Monday. The study analyzed data from Nielsen, 25 pages with news from the largest number of visitors per month. About 35% to 40% of traffic comes from web sites link to other sites, compared with readers of typing the URL directly, or another party on the same page. No wonder that Google dominates the routing of traffic. test products and new media companies for over 30% of all clicks. But Facebook has also developed a significant share of any hearing.

The Huffington Post ever recommendations on Facebook, which represented 8% of visitors. The New York Times, 6% of traffic from social networks. ; This is only a portion of traffic from Google, the study said. But they do Facebook, the most influential and growing. According to Nielsen figures show the effects of certain public places. ;

For all its success in breaking news, Twitter has the same effect. The site contains the highest percentage of traffic from Twitter, the Los Angeles Times, the loan can not micro-blogging platform for 3.53% of traffic. Twitter has created a much lower percentage of traffic to other sites too. Part of the difference between the transfer of the user base of Facebook and Twitter are different. Facebook has more than 500 million users, Twitter has 200 million accounts - many of them inactive.

However, the impact of reference is not the only problem is the number of users. Drudge Report news to the town is a veteran in the second or third in the national team has more than half the seats. For example, if the Drudge Report more than 30% of traffic in the British newspaper the Daily Mail, 19% of traffic on the New York Post, 15% to 11% of the Washington Post and Boston Globe;.