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Top 50 news websites in the US in July: BBC drops five places as paywall introduced; Most report traffic declines. (datawrapper.dwcdn.net)
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[–] underline960@sh.itjust.works 7 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

The report doesn't clearly establish a link between paywalls and a drop in site visits (which I would have liked to see).

One of the un-paywalled sites lost traffic mostly due to changes in the Google algorithm.

Overall, it just seems like a regular update of the website traffic rankings, juiced up by a clickbait headline.