Dave Earley<p>Australia's Top 20 news website rankings for February are out this morning. Big thanks to the 7.5 million Australians who read Guardian Australia last month 🙌</p><p>ABC News held No1 with 12.4m readers, with newscomau 2nd with 12.2m</p><p>GdnAus dropped -430k readers, but still held 6th spot 652k readers clear of SMH on 6.88m. Despite a small audience drop, Age overtook BBC to jump into Top 10. Keep in mind the month was 3 days (-10%) shorter as well!</p><p>Elsewhere in the Top20, The Australian jumped two spots in the table to 12th, overtaking NYTimes, while Forbes dropped 5 spots to 18th and SkyNewsOz was down two spots to 17th.</p><p>NIH weirdly reappears at 13th with a huge 810k readers added in Feb, but maybe the big news is The Nightly making their first ever appearance in the Top 20. </p><p>CourierMail are also back in Top20 for the first time since Oct last year, with DailyTele & Fox Sports dropping out</p><p>I might add that I am particularly pleased to see Guardian Australia's attention time (average minutes per person) up at 20mins here, which is the highest it's been since Oct/Nov last year, but would put us at 4th if you sorted the Top20 on that measure.</p><p>Link to January's Top20 rankings in the comments.</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/audience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>audience</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>journalism</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/newspapers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>newspapers</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/journalists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>journalists</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/digitalmedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>digitalmedia</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/audiencedevelopment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>audiencedevelopment</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/audienceengagement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>audienceengagement</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/audiencegrowth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>audiencegrowth</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/seo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>seo</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/newsproduct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>newsproduct</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/auspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>auspol</span></a></p>