Monthly Report for August 2015

In August, Politics Plus increased in activity slightly from July.

Here is our latest summary:

Data from August 2015:

Data from August 2014:

This August was a mixed from last year, but more up.

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 still mostly older, well educated, poor and middle class, and politically active Democrats. 

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 3 to August 20, when it was last updated. 

Here are our top five articles:

Jane Smiley: Capitalist Pigs 1/17/2010 5,460
Bill Maher–New Rules–8/28 8/29/2015 296
Last Week’s Hilariously Unhinged Republican Moments 8/9/2015 278
Personal Update–8/22/2015 8/22/2015 238
Last Week’s Despicable Republican Moments 209

The count represents only the people who followed an external link to that specific article.  I’m quite pleased that four from August made the cut, but I’m surprised one was a Personal Update.  Perhaps we’re entering a pattern where our newer content drives more traffic, except for the one from 2010.

Here are our top non-blog/news referrers:

Care2 2,538
Google 1,164
Stumbleupon 268
Baidu 160

All but Google are up.

Here are our top blog/news referrers:

http://bildungblog.blogspot.com/
http://oakcreekforum.blogspot.com/
http://progressiveerupts.blogspot.com/
http://zenman1550.tumblr.com/
http://reconstitution.us/rcnew/
http://anaverageamericanpatriot.blogspot.com/
http://ragingprogressive.tumblr.com/
http://mockpaperscissors.com/

I have usually included fifteen here, but these eight are the only ones with two or more referrals.  This is the one stat that still disappoints me most, because it means that we are no longer a go-to site for bloggers.  However, it seems we’re becoming a go-to site for activists, which is also good.

Here are our top commentators:

jla (237)
Edie (166)
Lynn Squance (155)
Joanne D (144)
SoINeedAName (92)
Jim Phillips (74)
Lona Goudswaard (72)
Patty (54)
Vivian B. (47)
Pat A (46)
Jerry Critter (33)
mamabear (16)
Beth (12)
Avril Lomas (10)
Arielle (6)
Dotti Lydon (6)

There’s one extra because of a tie.  As the resident Big Mouth, I don’t count.  Those who leave their URLs in their comment headers, also get “linkey-love” here.  People who submit articles to Care2 can use their submitted news link from there. 

We have 304,347 links on other websites.

As of Midnight on September 1, we have 5,728 articles and 68,274 comments.

Kudos to Lona and Mamabear for posting the 67,000th and 68,000th 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.

The political campaign is heating up much earlier than it normally has.  Whether you support Bernie, Hillary, Joe (if he runs) or Martin, please base your arguments on the good things about your choice.  However, it’s open season (politically) on the Republican candidates.  They and the Republican Bubble Machine will be repeating so many lies so often that we’ll be hard pressed to keep repeating  the truths.  Expect little help from the media.  I’ll do my best to assist you, by exposing the lies and presenting the truths clearly.

Thank you for all that you do, here and elsewhere.  You make doing this job worth the effort!