I’m back to doing these, but let’s start with a big hand for the Squatch for doing such a great job with June’s report.  Last month, hits and bandwidth were up from June, but the more important stats were down. 

Here is our latest summary:

Year over year, 2016 stats are marginally lower than those from 2015.

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 still about 43% male and 57% female.  I wonder if they are basing that on Squatch’s feet.

Here is our archived ClustrMap for July 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 2,373
Brussels Unprepared 3/23/2016 304
5 Looniest Right-Wing Moments This Week 1/20/2016 278 (by the Squatch!)
Republicans Move to Legalize Hate 7/11/2016 231
Open Thread – 7/6/2016 7/6/2016 211

The count represents only the people who followed an external link to that specific article.  With the exception of Jane Smiley: Capitalist Pigs, all of the top articles are new to the list, with four from 2016, and two from July.  Congratulations to Lynn, the Sasquatch, for cracking the top five!

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

Care2 2,333
Google 1,457
Stumbleupon 136
Google (Images) 103

Google is up by almost 100, and Google (images) is back over 100.  Stumbleupon is up 8 while Care2 is down 15.

Here are our top  blog/news referrers:

http://infidel753.blogspot.com/
http://bildungblog.blogspot.com/
http://oakcreekforum.blogspot.com/
http://hamsandwich66.blogspot.com/
http://noisyroom.net/blog/category/authors/terresa-monroe-hamilton/
http://jewishvoiceny.com/index.php
http://alterx.blogspot.ca/
http://progressiveerupts.blogspot.com/
http://author.addictinginfo.org/
http://disaffectedanditfeelssogood.blogspot.com/
http://mauigirlsmeanderings.blogspot.com/
http://theprogressivewing.com/
http://www.democraticunderground.com/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/
http://buckdogpolitics.blogspot.com/

Once upon a time I included fifteen here with two or more referrals.  This month, there are 14, up from 8 in June, but this time, I included 6 with only one referral.  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 July. 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 tie for fifteenth place.

Joanne Dixon (162)
Lynn Squance (130)
Edie (112)
Lona Goudswaard (105)
jla (84)
Pat B (80)
SoINeedAName (80)
Mitch D. (71)
Jim Phillips (58)
Vivian Birdwell (16)
Jerry Critter (12)
Arielle (8)
Avril Lomas (5)
Carrie Burton (4)
d bishop (3)
Phil Hanson (3)

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

We have 172,106 links on other websites, down considerably from June.  This reflects that fact that thousands of these links are over five years old, dating back to a time, when we consistently averaged over a million hits a month.  I used to have the time and energy for 7-8 articles per day. Major sites (like Care2), where I used to post links are no longer available, and I’ve stopped at other major sites, and I no longer visit 20 – 30 blogs per day, because I just can’t do everything I used to do.  However, as quantity has gone down, quality has gone up.

As of Midnight on August 1, we have 6,722 articles and 81,059 comments.

Kudos to Joanne and Lona for posting the 80,000th and 81,000th 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.

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 the Erynator and Lona Goudswaard, aka Lona the Napster.

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 overall upward trend, although my cancer surgeries and resulting problems probably occasioned this 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 Baaa Baaa Bagger butt!!  

Don’t forget . . .

Vote Blue to Dump Trump

or he’ll get you in the rump!!