Weekly Analytics, September 20–26, 2026: Network Visits Fell 6% While the Top 10 Sites Grew 28%
The 71 sites in the network logged 19,210 visits and 21,030 page views between September 20 and 26, 2026. Visits were down 6% on the week before; page views were down 11%. Pages got slower too, with the median load time up 18% to 3,709 ms (it was about 3,130 ms a week earlier).
Those totals hide two moves in opposite directions. The 10 busiest sites drew 10,300 visits between them, up from about 8,070 the week before, a 28% gain. Everything outside the top 10 went the other way, falling from about 12,400 visits to 8,910, a 28% drop. So the 61 smaller sites lost about 3,490 visits, close to three times the network’s net loss of 1,260. A week earlier the same 10 sites had 39% of all visits. Now they have 54%.
Top 10 sites by visits
| # | Site | Visits | Change | Page views | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | technologies.org | 3,230 | +29.20% | 3,310 | +18.21% |
| 2 | opinion.org | 1,930 | +278.43% | 2,010 | +252.63% |
| 3 | analysis.org | 1,050 | -4.55% | 1,070 | -3.60% |
| 4 | pho.tography.org | 740 | +8.82% | 740 | +7.25% |
| 5 | osint.org | 690 | -16.87% | 830 | -20.19% |
| 6 | marketanalysis.com | 660 | +34.69% | 710 | +36.54% |
| 7 | brandstoshop.com | 550 | +19.57% | 550 | +14.58% |
| 8 | cybersecuritymarket.com | 530 | 0.00% | 560 | -6.67% |
| 9 | technologyconference.com | 480 | -18.64% | 500 | -25.37% |
| 10 | zgm.org | 440 | +15.79% | 440 | +15.79% |
technologies.org leads by a wide margin with 3,230 visits, up 29%. Page views grew more slowly (18%), so the average visit got shorter: 1.02 pages, against 1.12 the week before. Desktop Chrome and unidentified browsers split its traffic almost evenly, 1,680 visits to 1,510.
opinion.org made the biggest jump in the table. Visits went from 510 to 1,930, enough for second place. Two weeks ago it had 370. Desktop Chrome brought 1,620 of this week’s visits; Chrome on mobile brought 20.
analysis.org is third with 1,050 visits, down 5%. It’s the one site in the top three where unidentified browsers (620 visits) outnumber Chrome (420).
Further down, marketanalysis.com posted the second-biggest percentage gain in the top 10, up 35% to 660 visits. brandstoshop.com rose 20% to 550 and zgm.org 16% to 440. pho.tography.org sits fourth with 740 visits, up 9%. cybersecuritymarket.com held at 530 visits, though its page views slipped 7%.
Two sites lost ground fast. technologyconference.com had the steepest fall in the top 10, with visits down 19% to 480 and page views down 25%. osint.org dropped 17% to 690 visits; it still gets more pages per visit than any other site in the table (1.2).
Load times and Core Web Vitals
Only the top three sites have speed data.
| Site | Page load | LCP (p75) | CLS (p75) | INP (p75) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| technologies.org | 2,741 ms (+1.41%) | 2,160 ms (+5.06%) | 0.12 (+222.22%) | 56 ms |
| opinion.org | 10,094 ms (+151.60%) | 13,456 ms (+297.17%) | 0.21 (+43.45%) | no data |
| analysis.org | 3,533 ms (-6.44%) | 2,348 ms (-10.52%) | 0.21 (0.00%) | 72 ms |
opinion.org got much slower in the same week its traffic nearly quadrupled. Page load time went from about 4.0 seconds to 10.1. LCP at the 75th percentile rose from about 3.4 seconds to 13.5, so one page view in four waited more than 13 seconds for the main content to show up. Google counts an LCP under 2.5 seconds as good and anything over 4 seconds as poor. The site now serves about one in 10 of the network’s page views (a week ago it was one in 40), which accounts for part of the rise in the network median.
analysis.org improved. Its LCP dropped from about 2.6 seconds to 2.35, under the 2.5-second line and into the good range. Layout shift hasn’t moved from 0.21, still above Google’s 0.1 mark for good.
technologies.org held its load time at 2.7 seconds and kept LCP in the good range at 2.16 seconds. Layout shift is its weak spot this week: CLS more than tripled, from about 0.04 to 0.12, which takes it past 0.1. Responsiveness is fine at both sites that reported it, with INP at 56 ms and 72 ms against a 200 ms threshold.
Next week will show whether opinion.org keeps its new traffic, and whether the smaller sites win back what they lost.