Monthly Report for February 2011

The second month of the new year was a marked improvement over the first.

Here are our basic stats:

Here is our most recent Clustrmap, last updated on March 1.

Our Clustrmap reset the morning of 2/28, starting over from scratch, so the above map represents just one day’s traffic.

Our durations were well down from 196 seconds last month:

Number of visits: 37554 – Average: 159 s	Number of visits	Percent
0s-30s	31930	85 %
30s-2mn	1689	4.4 %
2mn-5mn	1010	2.6 %
5mn-15mn	1067	2.8 %
15mn-30mn	653	1.7 %
30mn-1h	744	1.9 %
1h+	461	1.2 %

That’s expected, because we had more visitors.

Search engine referrals rose significantly.

19 different referring search engines	Pages	Percent	Hits	Percent
Stumbleupon (Social Bookmark)	7248	66.8 %	10951	68.3 %
Google	3155	29 %	4479	27.9 %
Microsoft MSN Search	277	2.5 %	277	1.7 %
Microsoft Bing	48	0.4 %	86	0.5 %
Yahoo!	29	0.2 %	44	0.2 %
Google (Images)	24	0.2 %	37	0.2 %
AOL	13	0.1 %	13	0 %
Microsoft Windows Live	12	0.1 %	29	0.1 %
Unknown search engines	11	0.1 %	12	0 %
Ask	9	0 %	9	0 %
Yandex	5	0 %	18	0.1 %
Digg (Social Bookmark)	3	0 %	52	0.3 %
Alexa	3	0 %	3	0 %
Scroogle	3	0 %	3	0 %
MyWebSearch	2	0 %	12	0 %
Earth Link	1	0 %	1	0 %
Baidu	1	0 %	1	0 %
Excite	1	0 %	1	0 %
MetaCrawler (Metamoteur)			1	0 %

Our top three non-blog referrers are:

http://www.reddit.com/ 13,300+

http://www.buzzflash.net/ 1,750+

http://www.jabberwonk.com/ 1,350+

Our top 15 referrer blogs are:

http://www.jackjodell.blogspot.com/

http://america-weeps.blogspot.com/

http://parsleyspics.blogspot.com/

http://themanwhowalksalonewalksfaster.blogspot.com/

http://republic-of-gilead.blogspot.com/

http://whohijackedourcountry.blogspot.com/

http://samandimp.wordpress.com/

http://annette-justmylittlepieceoftheworld.blogspot.com/

http://infidel753.blogspot.com/

http://okjimmseggrollemporium.blogspot.com/

http://www.timsscaredstiff.com/

http://theleftinme.blogspot.com/

href="http://www.oldamericancentury.org/">http://www.oldamericancentury.org/

http://bildungblog.blogspot.com/

http://thebeekeepersapprentice.com/

There’s some linkey-love in return  The best ways you can publicize Politics Plus is to use the share button at the bottom of each post to list our articles on the the sites where you belong, and to quote PP articles on your own blogs.  The operative commandment here is “thou shalt steal.”  We’re on the same side here, so I won’t mind.  Even if you want to repost a whole article, that’s OK.  Just link back, please.

Technorati was strange again last month.  In spite of great statistical improvement our authority is down in every category except World, and we’re about to fall off the A list.  I still have absolutely no idea why.

• Global 500 (rank 3,422)
• US politics 551 (rank 226)
• Politics 499 (rank 404)
• World 474 (rank 263)

We have 385,203 links on other websites, up from 169,169 last month.

We have 2,010 posts and 15,252 comments, as of midnight 3/1.

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Now we’re in a slower political time, because the next major election is almost two years away, so I don’t expect us to put up the same numbers we did last year.  Nevertheless, I think we have an important role to play finding and sharing the facts that are too honest for the mainstream media to touch. I  evaluate events from a left wing perspective, but with honesty and integrity.  Please keep joining in.  Without your participation, this would just be an average blog.