Monthly Report for March 2016

In March Politics Plus was up from February category, except bandwidth.  Thanks and kudos to Lynn, our beloved Sasquatch, who completed all our recent Monthly Reports, except January which I did.  I hope to be able to stay on top of them for a long time.

Here is our latest summary:

We were up from March 2015 in every category.

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, Democrats, and politically active. 

Here is our archived ClustrMap for March only.

ClustrMap misses a lot of visits, because many visits can’t be easily traced to a location.  They have changed their format..  When you click the map in the left column, it shows the current month only, no longer the year to date..

Here are our top five articles:

Jane Smiley: Capitalist Pigs 1/17/2010 1,475
5 Right-Wing Conspiracy Theories… 11/25/2015 218
Poll Results–3/5/2016 3/5/2016 186
Brussels Unprepared 3/13/2016 184
Hateful Hairball is a Nazi 3/10/2016 162

The count represents only the people who followed an external link to that specific article.  I’m quite pleased that three from March made the cut,  I’m especially pleased that another from one of our new co-administrators made it too.  Congrats Squatch!  

Here are our top non-blog/news referrers (100 minimum):

Care2 2,800
Google 2,096
Stumbleupon 221
Google (Images) 150

All four are up from February.

Here are our top  blog/news referrers:

http://infidel753.blogspot.com/
http://bildungblog.blogspot.com/
http://yournewswire.com/
http://parsleyspics.blogspot.com/
http://okjimmseggrollemporium.blogspot.com/
http://disaffectedanditfeelssogood.blogspot.com/
http://politics.blog.ajc.com/

Once upon a time I included fifteen here, but these seven are the only ones with two or more referrals.  This is the one stat that still disappoints me most, although we are up from four in February, because it means that we are no longer a go-to site for bloggers.  However, we seem to have become a go-to site for activists!.  Putting blogs’ 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, unless I forget to copy the data before it resets.

Joanne Dixon (143)
jla (130)
Lona Goudswaard (111)
Lynn Squance (111)
Pat B (92)
Edie (89)
SoINeedAName (70)
Mitch D. (55)
Jim Phillips (49)
Vivian B. (47)
Pat A (22)
Arielle (12)
Jerry Critter (12)
Avril Lomas (8)
dave c (7)

People who submit articles to Care2 can use their submitted news link from there.. 

We have 348,690 links on other websites, down substantially from February.

As of Midnight on March 1, we have 6,388 articles and 76,870 comments.

Kudos to Lona Goudswaard for posting the 76,000th 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.

In case you did not know, we are no longer a one-author blog.  Due to my reduced availability I appointed two Administrators, who are also authors.  They are Lynn Squance, aka Sasquatch or Squatch and SoINeedAName, aka Nameless.  I also appointed two more Authors.  They are Judi Angell, aka JL A, and Joanne Dixon, aka JD.  Please Join me in praising and thanking all four for a job well done.

This is our policy on links.  We do not embed links to extreme Republican websites, like Faux Noise, Breitfart or World Nut Daily.  However I leave an editors note when I delete such links, so readers, who wish to follow them can click through to the source article.  I also remove topical links.  Finally, I blank the target on all links, so they open in a new tab or window.  Please do so, or if you commonly leave links and don’t know how to blank the target, please say so.

It’s nice to see us in an upswing, and given our expanded talent, I expect that to continue.  One way you can help is to share our articles, not only with your family and friends, but also, on other sites, linking back to the article here.  The more exposure we get, the better we shall do at fulfilling our stated purpose, “Overcoming Right Wing Insanity One Day at a Time!”

Thank you for all that you do, here and elsewhere.  You are why we are here!  Now, lets roll up our sleeves and kick some Republican butt out of political office and into the unemployment line.!!