Top Sports Websites in Canada

Key Insights on Top Sports Websites in Canada on January 2026

As of January 2026, nhl.com leads Sports in Canada with 17.61M monthly visits. Its audience skews mobile-first (32.5% desktop / 32.5% mobile), and traffic is up month over month 41.76% and up year over year 17.21%. espn.com holds second with 13.58M visits and a mobile-leaning mix (45.17% desktop / 54.83% mobile), while sportsnet.ca ranks third with 9.01M visits.

Across the leaders, sofoot.com is the most mobile-first (98.72% of visits), whereas chess.com is the most desktop-reliant (73.77%). Momentum favors ausopen.com in the latest month (6,313.36%), while fifa.com shows the steepest pullback. On a yearly view, fifa.com posts the strongest expansion (278.97%), contrasted with olympics.com (-77.69%).

Acquisition patterns also differ: nhl.com is driven primarily by search, nhl.com by direct, and nhl.com by referral; overall, 87 of the top 100 sites are direct-led, 13 are search-led, and 0 lean on social.

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