Monthly Report for December 2014

Posted by TomCat at 12:01 am Blog News, Monthly Report, Politics

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In December, Politics Plus was little changed from November. At the suggestion of Gene from Care2, I considered returning to graphics from AWSTATS. Although AWSTATs tends to miss a lot of valid traffic, while trying to filter out bots, crawlers, spammers and hackers, it has other features that make it worth using. The graphs are easier to understand, and it has the ability to isolate time periods to compare, as I do below.

Here is our latest summary:

Stats12-2014

Data from December 2014:

Reported period	Month Dec 2014
First visit	01 Dec 2014 – 00:01
Last visit	31 Dec 2014 – 23:58
	Unique visitors	Number of visits	Pages	Hits	Bandwidth
Viewed traffic *	10,150	29,249 (2.88 visits/visitor)	76,869 (2.62 Pages/Visit)	219,862 (7.51 Hits/Visit)	3.10 GB (111.26 KB/Visit)
Not viewed traffic *			325,283	368,893	5.64 GB

Not viewed pages includes people who read RSS feeds and RSS readers.

Data from December 2013:

Reported period	Month Dec 2013
First visit	01 Dec 2013 – 00:00
Last visit	31 Dec 2013 – 23:59
	Unique visitors	Number of visits	Pages	Hits	Bandwidth
Viewed traffic *	9,171	30,033 (3.27 visits/visitor)	74,284 (2.47 Pages/Visit)	224,365 (7.47 Hits/Visit)	5.15 GB (179.7 KB/Visit)
Not viewed traffic *			248,731	320,245	4.45 GB

The last two Decembers are very similar.

Here is our latest ClustrMap:

Map12-2014

ClustrMap misses a lot of, because many visits can’t be easily traced to a location. It shows only the visits from March 2 to November 2, when it was last updated. The map has not been updated in over a month.

Here are our top five articles:

Jane Smiley: Capitalist Pigs 1/17/2010 1,528
Another Police Murder 11/29/2914 528
Open Thread–9/8/2014 524
Open Thread–12/15/2014 311
Open Thread–12/12/2014 304

I’m pleased to see more from 2014. For years my Open threads were largely ignored, but lately they have become one of our most popular items.

Here are our top non-blog/news referrers:

Care2 1,694
Google 1,611
Stumbleupon 600

Care2 and Google are down, Stumbleupon is up. Microsoft Bing fell below 100, so it is not listed.

Here are our top blog/news referrers:

http://crooksandliars.com/
http://oakcreekforum.blogspot.com/
http://infidel753.blogspot.com/
http://bildungblog.blogspot.com/
http://frieddogleg.blogspot.com/
http://zenman1550.tumblr.com/
http://www.politicususa.com/
http://theleftinme.blogspot.com/
http://www.synapticstew.com/
http://jackjodell53.wordpress.com/
http://alterx.blogspot.ca/
http://rixar13.wordpress.com/

Normally I include fifteen here, but these twelve are the only ones with two or more referrals. But that’s up two from last month. Putting their links here increases the ratings of their sites, so this “linkey love” is our thank you for their support.

Here are our top commentators. As the resident Big Mouth, I don’t count. Those who leave their URLs in their comment headers, also get “linkey-love” here.

Lynn Squance (101)
Edie (67)
Joanne D (65)
Patty (51)
Rixar13 (49)
Pat A (46)|
SoINeedAName (40)
jla (30)
Jerry Critter (23)
Jim Phillips (21)
Vivian B. (17)
mamabear (9)
Steve (7)
Arielle (6)
dave c (4)
Infidel753 (4)

There are over 15, because of a tie.

We have 259,369 links on other websites.

Our Technorati rating no longer exists, because Technorati no longer exists as a blog rating entity. They have left a vacuum in blog authority rating. If you learn of someone filling that need before I do, please let me know. I have registered with Quantcast. They miss a ton of raw data, but among those they can identify they will be a valuable source of information. I learned that hard way that I have to pull the data off before a new month starts. However I did learn that we are mostly older, well educated, poor, and politically active. That remains the same for December. I forgot to get the data off on time.

As of Midnight on January 1, we have 5,288 articles and 59,164 comments.

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 as your avatar. Whenever you comment under that email address here or on any WordPress blog (several others too), that image will become your avatar.

A new year is upon us. We know we will be facing major challenges. Exactly what they will be remains unclear, as we need to see exactly what slithers out of the Republican Party’s bag of villainous behavior. Whatever it takes, we’ll do it together!

Thank you for all that you do.

15 Responses to “Monthly Report for December 2014”

Pat A says:

January 3, 2015 at 9:29 am

Thanks for this TC – I always enjoy the ClustrMap – it really gives me hope for the world that so many people in such diverse places take an interest in other places (if you see what I mean!).

[Would it be possible to explain to me in words that a small child can understand {I know my limitations!} what 'Bandwidth' is and why it is there in the statistics at the top?].

I do like your penultimate sentence TC "Whatever it takes, we’ll do it together!" – bravo!!
- TomCat says:
  
  January 3, 2015 at 6:08 pm
  
  Pat, bandwidth is the measure of how much information is pulled frim our site by your computers. A single letter of the alphabet uses one byte of bandwidth. A long videdo may use hundreds of Megabytes.
  
  For you to understand the numbers, 1 Kilobyte (or K) is 1024 bytes. 1 Megabyte (or M) is 1024 K. 1 Gigabyte (or G) is 1024 M. One Terabyte (or T) is 1024 G. The entre Encyclopedia Britannica is abput one G. In December, people here viewed three times that much.
  
  Does that help?
  - Lynn Squance says:
    
    January 3, 2015 at 10:35 pm
    
    It certainly helps me!
Jim Phillips says:

January 3, 2015 at 10:53 am

Looks like May & June were the good months for visitors, etc in 2014.

I enjoy the cluster maps. Gives me an idea of where your PP site is being viewed and read. Makes me wonder who they are…
Lynn Squance says:

January 3, 2015 at 1:38 pm

Like Jim, I like the cluster map because it gives me an idea where the site is being viewed! . . . around Davis Inlet, Labrador (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davis_Inlet for an egregious example of how First Nations have been treated in Canada), in Nunavut and the Northwest Territories (Arctic Canada), even just north of Churchill, Manitoba on Hudson's Bay. Of course in the south, there is much more activity . . . looks like Metro Vancouver even gets a yellow dot although that could also be Seattle since we are so close. I also wonder who these people are and why they come. Are they like me coming out of general interest, but also to gain insight into conservative politics etc? We have an election later this year and the Conservatives are already out with their propaganda, and have been for months now. There is talk that the PM may drop an election writ in March hoping to catch the opposition with their collective pants down. As I said, watching the US conservatives gives us ideas as to how Harper and his harlots may act.

" … we need to see exactly what slithers out of the Republican Party’s bag of villainous behavior." — I was thinking " … we need to see exactly what slithers out of the cesspool called the Republican Party …" which would take into account behaviours and people.

Now that the midterms are over and the Republicanus/Teabaggers have a majority in the Congress, I think PP will get busier following the GOP shenanigans, Obama's veto pen, and the possible candidates for POTUS in 2016.

"Whatever it takes, we’ll do it together!" Just what I've been telling my mother for years now. Thanks TC for all your hard work and coaching for this neophyte. Very much appreciated.
- Rixar13 says:
  
  January 3, 2015 at 5:57 pm
  
  The once-nomadic Innu of Labrador have struggled under a haze of isolation, poverty and addiction ever since their 1967 settlement.
  
  Whoa, a very sad story indeed. 😥
  - Lynn Squance says:
    
    January 3, 2015 at 10:40 pm
    
    Isn't it though! Both our countries have Trails of Tears, and I am sure that Australia and New Zealand do too.
SoINeedAName says:

January 3, 2015 at 1:44 pm

TC –

I think it'd be fun to have a contest where you provide a large Map and then have folks ID all those little dots out in the middle of the huge Oceans and Seas – not the landmass ones, just the Oceans and Seas … out in the middle of nowhere.

While you may not have all locations, I'm assuming you have a list of locations to where the dots correspond.
- TomCat says:
  
  January 3, 2015 at 6:14 pm
  
  Feel free to run it. I get a list of states and countries.
jla says:

January 3, 2015 at 2:43 pm

Hope an upward trend resumes after the holidays in the new year.
Patty says:

January 3, 2015 at 3:23 pm

I'm also a fan of the cluster maps. They make we wonder who the readers are. The techno stuff is all Greek to me.
TomCat says:

January 3, 2015 at 6:16 pm

Thanks all. I'm trying t5o get an early start tonight, as I'm fighting Republicitis.
Edie says:

January 3, 2015 at 8:45 pm

Thanks, TC, for all you do. The cluster maps tell me that there are more like us out there. I just wonder why more don't participate in comments.
Vivian B. says:

January 5, 2015 at 1:12 pm

Howdy, TC! Glad to see you are feeling better! You had a rough couple weeks there. And I have missed you.
Looks like you have had a banner month!

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