Monthly Report for May 2012

For the last three months our stats have been very low, partially because I was ill and gone so much, but also because I no longer have the facilities that I used to have to publicize the blog.  More about that later.

	Unique visitors	Number of visits	Pages	Hits	Bandwidth
Viewed traffic *	12,580	29,240 (2.32 visits/visitor)	386,721 (13.22 Pages/Visit)	931,395 (31.85 Hits/Visit)	11.03 GB (395.6 KB/Visit)
Not viewed traffic *			308,868	376,322	6.19 GB

Not viewed traffic is people who read our blog without coming here, using RSS Readers, such as Feed Demon, and Aggregation sites, such as Google Reader and MyWeb.

Here are our 2011 stats.

And here are our 2012 stats so you can compare them.

Here is our most recent ClustrMap, last updated on June 1.  Note that our map reset on February 28.  The largest circles represent over 1,000 visits. The tiniest represent one to ten.

Our average durations were down.

Number of visits: 29,240 – Average: 296 s	Number of visits	Percent
0s-30s	23,733	81.1 %
30s-2mn	1,098	3.7 %
2mn-5mn	605	2 %
5mn-15mn	934	3.1 %
15mn-30mn	704	2.4 %
30mn-1h	1,329	4.5 %
1h+	837	2.8

That’s expected.  There has been less here to see.

Here are our top five articles for May.

E.P.A. Moves to Curtail Greenhouse Gas Emissions 10/01/2009  8,132 views

Open Thread–5/21/2012                                     5/21/2012  1,097 views

Go After Big Polluters with Bernie                          5/20/2012    887 views

The Republican War on Green Energy                            5/06/2012      736 views

Women Objectify Selves for a Pig                                   5/11/2012      634 views

Search engine referrals were down.

19 different referring search engines	Pages	Percent	Hits	Percent
Google	6797	70.9 %	12,527	59.6 %
Stumbleupon (Social Bookmark)	2347	24.5 %	7,818	37.2 %
Microsoft Bing	177	1.8 %	281	1.3 %
Yahoo!	83	0.8 %	117	0.5 %
Digg (Social Bookmark)	43	0.4 %	55	0.2 %
Google (Images)	42	0.4 %	99	0.4 %
AOL	37	0.3 %	42	0.1 %
Unknown search engines	22	0.2 %	25	0.1 %
Microsoft MSN Search	7	0 %	7	0 %
Ask	6	0 %	6	0 %
Microsoft Windows Live	6	0 %	14	0 %
Dogpile	3	0 %	5	0 %
Earth Link	2	0 %	2	0 %
Baidu	2	0 %	2	0 %
Seznam	2	0 %	2	0 %
MyWebSearch	2	0 %	2	0 %
Yandex	1	0 %	3	0 %
Mamma			3	0 %
Voila			1	0 %

Stumbleupon continues to disappoint, since they changed their format.

Our top five non-blog referrers are:

http://www.care2.com/          1,684

http://www.reddit.com/          1,309

http://www.jabberwonk.com/     540

http://www.tumblr.com/            246

http://www.facebook.com/         112

Our top 15 blog/news referrers are:

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

http://synapticstew.com/

http://infidel753.blogspot.com/

http://truthshallrule.blogspot.com/

http://themoderatevoice.com/

http://www.roseanneworld.com/

http://www.rumormillnews.com/

http://stfuconservatives.net/

http://jackjodell53.wordpress.com/

http://reconstitution.us/rcnew/

http://frieddogleg.blogspot.com/

http://bildungblog.blogspot.com/

http://theleftinme.blogspot.com/

http://parsleyspics.blogspot.com/

http://republic-of-gilead.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 it.  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 Politics Plus URL, they are my work.

Here are the top fifteen commenters for May.  I  copied them off in time. 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, except replies directed at someone else.  Those who leave their URLs in their comments, also get linkey-love here.

Lynn Squance (90)

Patty (57)

Rixar13 (44)

SoINeedAName (44)

Jerry Critter (39)

Edith Belcher (27)

Phyllis (27)

Lisa G. (20)

Jolly Roger (14)

Jack Jodell (11)

mamabear (7)

anon paranoid (4)

Angelica (3)

Blue (3)

Infidel753 (3)

We have 541,208 links on other websites.

We have all but disappeared from Technorati. Despite over half a million links, Technorati only recognizes links on sites that have registered at Technorati.  Because we had so much traffic on Buzzflash.net, a registered site, we used to be an A list blog.  Buzzflash.net is gone and with the slowdown, we’re back to B list.  If Care2 were to register with Technorati, we’d be in fat city.

We have 3,416 articles and 51,730 comments, as of midnight 6/1.

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 email address here or on any WordPress blog (several others too), that image will be your avatar.

Your participation remains a major part of what makes this blog worth reading, not to mention worth writing.   Politics Plus exists to help end right-wing insanity and send the Republican Party the way of the Whigs.  Thank you all for all you do, here and elsewhere, to help make that happen.  Together we will make a difference.

Here is our biggest problem  Reddit, the site that generated most of our referrals, has instituted a policy that bloggers must post at least 90% of the articles they send to Reddit from sources other than our own blogs.  That replaced an agreement I had with the moderators to post 50/50.  Digg has a similar policy.  We can get excellent traffic from those sites, but I cannot be the one to send the articles.  If you have an account with either, I would certainly appreciate it if you would post the articles you consider worthy from here.

Our current rut is my responsibility, and I hope my health permits me to return to daily blogging.