Helped by its acquisition of Wordle, The New York times saw audience growth of 34% more visits compared to a year earlier. The Daily Mail posted a 3% increase.

            Other big sites experienced mostly declines. CNN was down 2%, msn.com 4%, foxnews.com 6%, news.google.com 8% and finance.yahoo.com 15%.

            Despite traffic decline of 22%, the BBC sites still ranks number for visits in June with 1 billion visits. They are followed by msn.com at 843.4 million visits, cnn.com and edition.cnn.com at 589.3 million visits, Google News at 479.7 million visits, and nytimes.com. at 449.5.