How biz news sites added, lost readers in past year

Below you will find the charts from comScore Multi-platform Report US showing the top 15 business and financial news websites for March 2015 and March 2014 in terms of unique viewers for each of those months.

A few takeaways:

1. Yahoo Finance has lost more than 20 million unique viewers year over year;

2. Business Insider has gained nearly 20 million unique viewers year over year. It has also risen from No. 5 to No. 2 in the rankings;

3. Forbes Digital has gained about 6 million unique viewers in the past year;

4. The Dow Jones & Co. sites have lost unique viewers and fallen from No. 2 to No. 4. This might explain the redesign of The Wall Street Journal’s website earlier this week;

5. The International Business Times website has jumped from No. 8 to No. 5 in the category.

6. CNBC has risen from No. 10 to No. 8 in the rankings in the past year and gained 9 million unique viewers;

7. Fortune.com, which launched almost a year ago, is now the No. 11 site in the category.