Weekly Analytics, September 27–October 3, 2026: Network Visits Fell 5.5% and Two Sites Caused All of It

The 76 sites in the network logged 18,150 visits and 20,050 page views between September 27 and October 3, 2026. Visits were down 5.5% on the week before, page views 4.7%. Median page load time was 2,685 ms. That's shown as 2.4% faster than the previous week, which doesn't square with last week's figure of 3,709 ms.

Two sites account for the whole drop. technologies.org lost about 1,130 visits and opinion.org about 1,470. That's 2,600 between them, against a net loss of 1,060 for the whole network, so either one on its own lost more than the network did. Everything else gained about 1,540 visits, roughly 11%. Some of that may come from the five extra sites (76 this week, 71 last). The eight other sites in the top 10, all of them counted last week too, still grew 9% between them.

Top 10 sites by visits

technologies.org is still first by a wide margin, with twice the visits of the next site. Its 2,100 visits are down 35% from 3,230, and below the roughly 2,500 it had two weeks ago. Most of the loss came from unidentified browsers, which fell from 1,510 visits to 820; Chrome went from 1,680 to 1,250.

opinion.org gave back last week's jump. Visits fell 76%, from 1,930 to 460, with page views down by almost the same share. It had 370 and then 510 visits in the two weeks before the jump, so it's back about where it was.

Three sites are new to the top 10. ancientrome.org rose 74% to 470 visits and apicourse.com 73% to 450; both had fewer than 300 a week earlier. exclusive.org climbed 44% to 620 visits while its page views went the other way, down 32% to 630. A week ago about 430 visits produced about 920 page views, a little over two pages each. This week it was one page per visit. The newcomers replace brandstoshop.com, technologyconference.com and zgm.org, which dropped off the list.

analysis.org, pho.tography.org and marketanalysis.com held steady at 1,050, 740 and 660 visits. With opinion.org out of second place, pho.tography.org moves up to third. osint.org fell 13% to 600 visits but still gets more pages per visit than any other site in the table (1.25). cybersecuritymarket.com slipped 11% to 470.

Load times and Core Web Vitals

Only the top three sites have speed data.

pho.tography.org is the fastest of the three by a distance. Median load time was 1.2 seconds, down from about 1.8 a week earlier. LCP at the 75th percentile dropped from about 2.3 seconds to 1.0, and CLS is zero. That's quick for a site built around photos.

technologies.org traded one problem for another. CLS fell from 0.12 to 0.08, back under Google's 0.1 mark for good. LCP went the other way: the 75th percentile rose from 2,160 ms to 2,856 ms, past the 2.5 seconds Google counts as good, so one page view in four now waits longer than 2.8 seconds for the main content. Median load time still improved, to 2,551 ms from 2,741. INP didn't report this week (last week it was 56 ms).

analysis.org keeps getting better on LCP, now 1,892 ms, down 19% after a 10% drop the week before. INP is 40 ms, well inside Google's 200 ms threshold. The weak spots haven't moved. CLS has sat at 0.21 for three weeks, above the 0.1 mark, and the median page load is the slowest of the three at 3.8 seconds, up 7%. That mix usually means the main content shows up fast, then something else keeps loading and pushes the layout around.

Next week, watch LCP on technologies.org and pages per visit on exclusive.org.