In February, Politics Plus was little changed from January. We decreased in every category, but only because the month is three days shorter.
Here is our latest summary:
Data from February 2015:
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Reported period |
Month Feb 2015 |
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First visit |
01 Feb 2015 – 00:00 |
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Last visit |
28 Feb 2015 – 23:59 |
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Unique visitors |
Number of visits |
Pages |
Hits |
Bandwidth |
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Viewed traffic * |
9,917
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27,754 (2.79 visits/visitor) |
75,630 (2.72 Pages/Visit) |
220,134 (7.93 Hits/Visit) |
3.12 GB (117.87 KB/Visit) |
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Not viewed traffic * |
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223,765 |
258,998 |
4.49 GB |
Data from February 2014:
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Reported period |
Month Feb 2014 |
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First visit |
01 Feb 2014 – 00:01 |
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Last visit |
28 Feb 2014 – 23:56 |
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Unique visitors |
Number of visits |
Pages |
Hits |
Bandwidth |
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Viewed traffic * |
7,693
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26,136 (3.39 visits/visitor) |
61,527 (2.35 Pages/Visit) |
203,551 (7.78 Hits/Visit) |
6.51 GB (260.99 KB/Visit) |
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Not viewed traffic * |
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235,416 |
286,302 |
9.47 GB |
This February was a significant improvement over last.
Here is our latest demographic data from Quantcast:
They miss a ton of raw data, but among those they can identify they are a valuable source of information. We are mostly older, well educated, poor, and politically active.
Here is our latest ClustrMap:
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 January 13, when it was last updated. Therefore it is unchanged from last month.
Here are our top five articles:
Jane Smiley: Capitalist Pigs 1/17/2010 1,651
Warren on Vaccines 2/13/2015 484
Texas Is Premeditating Murder 11/25/2014 363
Good News from the FCC 2/5/2015 309
The Impasse Is No Mystery 2/11/2015 301
The count represents only the people who followed an external link to that specific article. I’m pleased to see three from February.
Here are our top non-blog/news referrers:
Care2 2,103
Google 1,695
Stumbleupon 1,138
Two are down. Stumbleupon is up.
Here are our top blog/news referrers:
http://infidel753.blogspot.com/
http://bildungblog.blogspot.com/
http://www.oakcreekforum.blogspot.mx/
http://rixar13.newsvine.com/
http://annette-justmylittlepieceoftheworld.blogspot.com/
http://zenman1550.tumblr.com/
http://progressiveerupts.blogspot.com/
Normally I have included fifteen here, but these seven are the only ones with two or more referrals. That’s down three 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 (129)
Edie (85)
Joanne D (84)
Pat A (80)
Patty (79)
Jim Phillips (59)
SoINeedAName (53)
jla (48)
Rixar13 (45)
Vivian B. (39)
Jerry Critter (24)
mamabear (17)
Avril Lomas (9)
Steve (6)
Arielle (5)
Yvonne White (5)
Infidel753 (5)
There are over 15, because of a tie. People who submit articles to Care2 can use their submitted news link from there.
We have 254,594 links on other websites.
As of Midnight on March 1, we have 5,400 articles and 61,387 comments.
Kudos to Lynn for posting the 61,000th comment.
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.
As the New Year continues to unfold, it’s crystal clear that the Republican Party is too incompetent to govern, even on those rare occasions, when they appear to want to do so. In addition, they have no shortage of greed, lies, and hate. They are getting away with it, because the habitat of most Americans is intersection of political ignorance and apathy, and most news media reinforce both. We still have our work cut out for us.
Thank you for all that you do, here and elsewhere. You are what makes this site happen!!
13 Responses to “Monthly Report for February 2015”
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Sounds like holding solid–kudos!
"Older, well educated, poor, and politically active" – yup, that's me, all right.
Me too!
Older, educated, poor and politically active! That’s me too, Joanne D.! I hit all those categories with a bat! And moving up the line with comments, also!
Thanks for all you do, TC!
It seems that the description of your group fits me perfectly. Thanks for all your hard work. Apathy and ignornance on the part of voters are the reasons we are in such bad shape as a country.
TC, you do great work! Numbers will only go up as the year progresses and then into next year for the presidential elections. Anybody not paying attention to Politics Plus is crazy!
Now, if only the low information electors would get on board and quit being seduced by the talking heads at Faux Noise, the US might actually get somewhere. That and convincing people that voting is a duty that they should not shirk!
BTW, I tried to get my own avatar but Gravatar didn't work for me. I ended up with a blog spot or something like that.
Just a cautionary note WRT Gravatar, at least WRT those who comment on Disqus platforms. Apparently your email address can be discovered, at least it was done a little over a year ago as reported by PC World.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2079060/disqus-scrambles-after-leak-fuels-swedish-tabloid-expos.html
I didn't know that. However, the email addresses one uses for blogging and fir business should be completely separate. I always treat the email addresses here in strict confidence, but some bloggers sell them.
You must have done something wrong.
If I read the stats correctly (and that's a fairly big 'if') and assuming we have around 20 – 30 regulars round here who leave comments, you have a vast number of people looking in from all over the world (quite literally) – I do LOVE the ClustrMaps! Hi everyone!
And yes, older, educated, poor and politically active – me too!
The numbers are looking good. I'm really glad the demographics didn't describe us as uneducated.
Keep up the good work.
Thanks all.
Many come here looking for information, but the core readers who comment are activists.
Politics Plus readers are more than twice as likely to have a graduate degree than the national average.