The total amount of unique visitors for these websites barely exceeds 300,000 per month, according to Alexa. By comparison, an average daily newspaper in a small American city easily exceeds this number. Yet still, this is twice as much traffic as the websites received earlier, the company says.
The Daily Stormer, which takes its name from Nazi Germany journal Der Stürmer, seems to have received the biggest spike in visitors, eclipsing the Stormfront, which was the main Alt-Right hub prior to US elections.
"The [white racist] sites aren't insignificant but they're not the whole picture," warns Oren Segal, director of the Anti-Defamation League's Center on Extremism.
Unsurprisingly, the media were quick to connect this surge to Donald Trump's successful election campaign. However, the president-elect himself strongly denies the connection.
"It's not a group I want to energize, and if they are energized, I want to look into it and find out why," Trump told reporters, pointing out that this spike should be compared to previous elections, which has not yet been done.
According to the president-elect, his agenda includes steps to counteract racism and any division within the United States whatsoever.
"What we do want to do is we want to bring the country together, because the country is very, very divided," he said. "It's very, very divided, and I'm going to work very hard to bring the country together."
"Interestingly enough, if you look into the statistics about who actually engaged in a majority of the attacks in the US since 9/11, it has actually been the far-right," Weeks said. "It is often conveniently left out, and very few people actually know about it, but it's not typically the Muslim terrorists that most in law enforcement are worrying about."
