Monthly Report for August 2016

Last month, all categories were up from July, except for Visits.  The massive increase in Bandwidth occurred, because I optimized thousands of previously uploaded photos, so that aberration won’t repeat.

Here is our latest summary:

 

 

Year over year, 2016 Uniques and visits are marginally lower than those from 2015.  Pages, Hits and Bandwidth are 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  about 45% male and 55% female. 

Here is our archived ClustrMap for August 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.  You can sure tell the difference in Lona!

Here are our top five articles:

Jane Smiley: Capitalist Pigs 1/17/2010 2,100
Why You Cannot Reason with Trump Supporters 8/19/2016 460
Unquestioning Support for Cops 7/18/2015 384
It’s Not Just the South 8/18/2016 383
Another Appropriate Trump Advisor 8/23/2016 377

The count represents only the people who followed an external link to that specific article.  Two were from earlier years.  The other three were from August.  I sincerely hope our other authors crack the top five next month.

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

Care2 3,297
Google 1,717
Stumbleupon 176
Google (Images) 139

Care2 up by almost 1000,  Google  is up over 250, Stumbleupon is up 40, and Google (Images) is up 36 from July.

Here are our top  blog/news referrers:

http://infidel753.blogspot.com/
http://bildungblog.blogspot.com/
http://hamsandwich66.blogspot.com/
http://scaredstiff-tim.blogspot.com/
http://oakcreekforum.blogspot.mx/
http://www.badgirlchats.com/
http://disaffectedanditfeelssogood.blogspot.com/
http://www.dailynewsbin.com/
http://okjimmseggrollemporium.blogspot.ca/
http://www.addictinginfo.org/
http://marketwatch666.blogspot.co.uk/

We had 11 sites  with 2 or more referrals, up three from July.  Putting blogs’ links here increases the ratings of their sites, so this “linkey love” is our thank you for their support.

While optimizing the site for better performance, I discovered that our Top Commentators plugin was such a resource hog that it was increasing the time it took to load our pages by 33%, so I discontinued it.

We have 258,156 links on other websites, up considerably from July.  I expect that to decrease, because thousands of our 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, I’ve stopped posting links 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 September 1, we have 6,793 articles and 81,968 comments.

Nobody won a Big Mouth Award in August, but one for the 82,000th comment will be awarded tomorrow.

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 are still interfering with my writing.  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 succeed!  You are the reason America can survive!!

Now lets keep kicking Baaa Baaa Bagger butt!!

Remember . . .

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