The network logged 20,470 visits and 23,610 page views across 68 sites in the week of September 13 to 19. Visits rose 31.7% on the prior week, from about 15,500. Page views climbed faster, up 41.1%. That’s roughly 4,900 more visits than a week earlier, and two sites account for half of it.
Two sites did the heavy lifting
israelnews.org went from about 110 visits to 1,410 (up 1,182%) and jumped to second place. referently.com went from about 170 to 1,320 (up 676%) and took third. Together they added around 2,450 visits. Strip them out and the rest of the network still grew about 16%, which is a solid week on its own.
Both surges share a shape. Almost every visit was a single page view, and almost all of it came through Chrome. That points to a concentrated source, a link, a feed pickup or an automated crawl, more than to readers browsing around. Next week’s numbers will show whether it holds.
technologies.org kept the top spot with 2,500 visits (up 3.7%) and 2,800 page views (up 9.8%). It’s the steadiest performer in the network and the only one of the top three with healthy load times.
Top 10 sites by visits
| # | Site | Visits | Change | Page views | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | technologies.org | 2,500 | +3.7% | 2,800 | +9.8% |
| 2 | israelnews.org | 1,410 | +1,181.8% | 1,430 | +1,091.7% |
| 3 | referently.com | 1,320 | +676.5% | 1,320 | +676.5% |
| 4 | analysis.org | 1,100 | +34.2% | 1,110 | +32.1% |
| 5 | osint.org | 830 | +53.7% | 1,040 | +65.1% |
| 6 | pho.tography.org | 680 | −11.7% | 690 | −12.7% |
| 7 | technologyconference.com | 590 | −49.6% | 670 | −54.4% |
| 8 | marketresearchmedia.com | 530 | +96.3% | 550 | +96.4% |
| 9 | cybersecuritymarket.com | 530 | +12.8% | 600 | +22.4% |
| 10 | opinion.org | 510 | +37.8% | 570 | +54.1% |
The top 10 brought in exactly 10,000 visits, just under half the total. The other 58 sites split the remaining 10,470.
Movers further down
marketresearchmedia.com nearly doubled, from about 270 visits to 530. osint.org added close to 300 visits (up 53.7%) and posted the best engagement in the top 10 at 1.25 page views per visit. opinion.org grew 37.8%, and its page views rose faster still, so readers there are clicking through to a second piece more often. analysis.org kept its momentum with 34% growth and moved into fourth.
On the other side, technologyconference.com lost half its traffic, falling from about 1,170 visits to 590. Event listings tend to spike ahead of big conference dates and ease off between them, so this reads as timing. pho.tography.org slipped 11.7% to 680 visits after a stronger previous week.
Load times got worse
Median page load time across the network more than doubled, from about 2.3 seconds to 4.75 seconds (up 109%). That figure only covers sites reporting real-user timing, and this week that’s the top three. The two surging sites dragged it up.
- israelnews.org: 8.5 seconds median load, up 108%. Largest Contentful Paint at the 75th percentile hit 5.4 seconds, well past the 4-second line where Google calls it poor.
- referently.com: 5.9 seconds median load, up 381%. LCP at 3.9 seconds, in the “needs improvement” band, and slightly better than last week.
- technologies.org: 2.7 seconds median load, up 19%. LCP held flat at 2.1 seconds, inside the “good” range.
Layout stability and responsiveness are fine everywhere. Cumulative Layout Shift sits at 0.04 on technologies.org, 0.08 on israelnews.org and zero on referently.com, all under the 0.1 threshold. The 500% jump on technologies.org sounds alarming but it’s a move from a near-zero base. Interaction to Next Paint ranges from 48 to 64 milliseconds, far below the 200ms limit.
Sites four through ten don’t report Core Web Vitals, so there’s no speed data for them this week.
What to watch
The question for next week is whether israelnews.org and referently.com keep their new baseline or fall back. If the traffic sticks, both sites need faster pages, israelnews.org first. If it fades, the network’s real growth rate is the 16% underneath, and that’s still a good number.