Monthly Report June 2016

June's Report has very much been a shared effort . . . TC provided the information and graphics while I, Sasquatch, entered it into the format and wrote much of the commentary.  Unfortunately, the second graphs of Unique Visitors etc which TC sent me were positively gorgeous, but did not transfer well . . . no colour, no gridlines.  I suspect this may be because I work directly in WordPress while TC does not.  I'll have to try to figure it out for the next time.

Here is our latest summary:

Reported period	Month Jun 2016
First visit	01 Jun 2016 – 00:01
Last visit	30 Jun 2016 – 23:59
	Unique visitors	Number of visits	Pages	Hits	Bandwidth
Viewed traffic *	9,081	35,213 (3.87 visits/visitor)	104,204 (2.95 Pages/Visit)	248,077 (7.04 Hits/Visit)	6.53 GB (194.59 KB/Visit)
Not viewed traffic *			430,868	496,254	9.47 GB

 

Reported period	Month Jun 2015
First visit	01 Jun 2015 – 00:00
Last visit	30 Jun 2015 – 23:58
	Unique visitors	Number of visits	Pages	Hits	Bandwidth
Viewed traffic *	8,798	27,484 (3.12 visits/visitor)	79,415 (2.88 Pages/Visit)	212,991 (7.74 Hits/Visit)	3.04 GB (116.09 KB/Visit)
Not viewed traffic *			315,608	358,347	5.55 GB

Year over year, 2016 significantly exceeds 2015 both in viewed and not viewed traffic.  Month over month, June is down in Unique Visitors, Number of Visits and Bandwidth, although not a lot.  Pages and Hits are marginally higher.

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.  We are also about 43% male and 57% female.  So who says that women don't have opinions about serious subjects!

Here is our archived ClustrMap for June 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 3,239

SURVEY: DNC Platform Drafting Committee 6/7/2016  374  (This one is JD)

Last Week’s Most Insane Republican Moments 6/12/2016 255

North Carolina Personal Nullification 10/23/2014 251

Beware the Fartfuhrer of Fitzwalkerstan 7/13/2015 235

 

The count represents only the people who followed an external link to that specific article.  There is an increase of almost 1,000 hits on Jane Smiley: Capitalist Pigs, and in May, it was up 500.  I wonder if this article has become required reading for a school?  With the exception of Jane Smiley: Capitalist Pigs, all of the top articles are new to the list, with only two from 2016.  Congratulations to JD, the Erynator,for cracking the top five!

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

Care2 2,348

Google 1,371

Stumbleupon 128

 

Google is down by  just under 750, and Google (images) has dropped below 100 so does not show.  Stumbleupon is down while Care2 is down 27.

 

Here are our top  blog/news referrers:

http://theprogressivewing.com/

http://infidel753.blogspot.com/

http://caucus99percent.com/

http://bildungblog.blogspot.com/

http://oakcreekforum.blogspot.com/

http://hamsandwich66.blogspot.com/

http://www.boomantribune.com/

http://www.dailykos.com/

 

Once upon a time I included fifteen here with two or more referrals.  This month, there are 8, a doubling of May's figures and up one from April.  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, 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 for June. Those who leave their URLs in their comment headers, also get “linkey-love” here, unless I forget to copy the data before it resets.  We had a three way tie for fifteenth place.

TomCat (178)

Joanne Dixon (151)

Lynn Squance (127)

Lona Goudswaard (106)

jla (88)

SoINeedAName (77)

Pat B (75)

Edie (74)

Jim Phillips (56)

Mitch D. (52)

Vivian Birdwell (26)

Arielle (10)

Jerry Critter (9)

pam (5)

Avril Lomas (4)

Carrie Burton (4)

gene jacobson (4)

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

We have 306,635 links on other websites, down considerably from May, and even April.  This is certainly disappointing because it means that we aren't being seen in as wide a venue.

As of Midnight on June 1, we have 6,638 articles and 79,905 comments.

Kudos to Mitch D for posting the 79,000th 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.

Your Administrators are Lynn Squance, aka Sasquatch or Squatch, SoINeedAName, aka Nameless, and I, aka TomCat, the Founder.  Your Authors are Joanne Dixon, aka JD and Lona Goudswaard, the Nap Bandit.

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 notes in square brackets when I delete such links, (example: [faux noise delinked]) 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.

Given our expanded talent, I expect to continue our upward trend, although my cancer surgeries may occasion a temporary drop.  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!  You are the reason we are a success!!

Now lets keep kicking Bagger butt!!  

Don't forget . . .

VOTE BLUE NO MATTER WHO!!!