Monthly Report for June 2011

In June, Politics Plus enjoyed record performance in every category except one, unique visitors, which fell 404 short of the record.  Visits, page views, hits and bandwidth are all up from March’s record.  I consider page views most important, because to generate more than one page view on a visit, someone has to open other pages to actually read them.

Here are our basic stats:

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

Our Clustrmap reset the morning of 2/28, starting over from scratch, so the above map represents just four months’ traffic. The largest circles represent over 1,000 visits.  The tiniest represent one to ten.

Our average durations were up from 195 seconds last month:

Number of visits: 54652 – Average: 219 s	Number of visits	Percent
0s-30s	44399	81.2 %
30s-2mn	3025	5.5 %
2mn-5mn	1651	3 %
5mn-15mn	1710	3.1 %
15mn-30mn	1213	2.2 %
30mn-1h	1635	2.9 %
1h+	1019	1.8 %

That’s excellent, because more visitors spent mote time here individually.

Search engine referrals were up considerably.

21 different referring search engines	Pages	Percent	Hits	Percent
Stumbleupon (Social Bookmark)	17916	82.1 %	22341	78.9 %
Google	2981	13.6 %	4808	16.9 %
Microsoft MSN Search	477	2.1 %	477	1.6 %
Yahoo!	122	0.5 %	166	0.5 %
Microsoft Bing	94	0.4 %	144	0.5 %
Microsoft Windows Live	51	0.2 %	143	0.5 %
Ask	35	0.1 %	35	0.1 %
Unknown search engines	33	0.1 %	34	0.1 %
Google (Images)	27	0.1 %	43	0.1 %
AOL	22	0.1 %	23	0 %
Digg (Social Bookmark)	20	0 %	20	0 %
Rambler	9	0 %	9	0 %
MyWebSearch	9	0 %	18	0 %
Yandex	4	0 %	15	0 %
Go.com	3	0 %	3	0 %
Dogpile	2	0 %	2	0 %
Virgilio	1	0 %	1	0 %
Interia.pl	1	0 %	1	0 %
Scroogle	1	0 %	1	0 %
Baidu			1	0 %
Netscape			10	0 %

Our top four non-blog referrers are:

http://www.reddit.com/               9,000+

http://www.buzzflash.net/           4,600+

http://www.care2.com/               4.400+

http://www.jabberwonk.com/       1,200+

Our top 15 blog referrers are:

http://parsleyspics.blogspot.com/

http://jbm479.wordpress.com/

http://themanwhowalksalonewalksfaster.blogspot.com/

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

http://whohijackedourcountry.blogspot.com/

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

http://infidel753.blogspot.com/

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php

http://www.freespeechwisconsin.com/index.php/topic,988.0.html

http://opovet.blogspot.com/

http://jackjodell53.wordpress.com/

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

http://katieschwartz.com/

http://oakcreekforum.blogspot.com/

http://bildungblog.blogspot.com/

Here’s some linkey-love in return  The best ways you can spread the message to others is to use the share button at the bottom of each article to list our articles on the the networking sites where you belong. Quote PP articles on your own blogs also helps.  The operative commandment here is “thou shalt steal.”  We’re on the same side here, and I encourage.  Even if you want to repost a whole article, that’s OK.  Just link back, please.  Also, feel free to swipe my graphics in the articles.  If they are labeled with our URL, they are my work.

We have a new feature occasioned by a new plugin.  I almost screwed the pooch again on this one, because it reset before midnight in our time zone.  Fortunately, I had pulled it early, just in case.  Here are the top ten commenters for June.

Lisa G. (117)

Memphis Johnny (101)

Patty (84)

Phyllis (62)

Jerry Critter (60)

SoINeedAName (56)

TWM (51)

Jack Jodell (43)

Lee (21)

Leslie Parsley (17)

The widget is in the right column.  I don’t count, as I’m the resident big mouth, and I try to reply to every comment.  Those who leave their URLs in their comments, get linkey love.

Technorati remains a complete mystery to me.  Despite our record performance, our ratings declined in every category except World.  I have no idea why.  We barely made the A List.

• Global 514 (rank 2,361)
• US politics 517 (rank 285)
• Politics 493 (rank 421)
• World 440 (rank 358)

We have 485,496 links on other websites, up from 69,033 from last month.

We have 2,505 posts and 19,684 comments, as of midnight 7/1.

We have new wacky avatars, and I rotate them each month, but I recommend using your own avatar. Go to Gravatar.  Sign up using the email address you use to post comments here and upload the image you want to use.  Whenever you comment under that e mail address here or on any WordPress blog (several others too), that image will be your avatar.

Your participation remains what makes this blog worth reading, not to mention worth writing.  Many people who visit here have told me  that they come here to read your comments in addition to my articles.  Politics Plus exists to help end right-wing insanity.  Thank you all for all you do, here and elsewhere, to help make that happen.