Last month, all categories were up from October. I attribute our continuing slowness to my health issues and the shock of disbelief that has descended on our poor nation.
Here is our latest summary:
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Reported period |
Month Nov 2016 |
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First visit |
01 Nov 2016 – 00:01 |
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Last visit |
30 Nov 2016 – 23:58 |
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Unique visitors |
Number of visits |
Pages |
Hits |
Bandwidth |
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Viewed traffic * |
9,276
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27,473 (2.96 visits/visitor) |
81,817 (2.97 Pages/Visit) |
276,690 (10.07 Hits/Visit) |
6.78 GB (258.67 KB/Visit) |
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Not viewed traffic * |
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350,170 |
405,161 |
7.30 GB |
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Reported period |
Month Nov 2015 |
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First visit |
01 Nov 2015 – 00:01 |
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Last visit |
30 Nov 2015 – 23:59 |
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Unique visitors |
Number of visits |
Pages |
Hits |
Bandwidth |
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Viewed traffic * |
11,064
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34,904 (3.15 visits/visitor) |
143,087 (4.09 Pages/Visit) |
377,069 (10.8 Hits/Visit) |
5.80 GB (174.27 KB/Visit) |
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Not viewed traffic * |
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393,309 |
453,597 |
7.23 GB |
Year over year, 2016 is considerably lower 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, Democrats, and politically active, anmd poor to middle class. We are about 40% male and 60% female.
Here is our ClustrMap for 2016 YTD.
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, but they changed their interface to allow me to pull up the YTD map, and they just made several different formats available, including one in Russian for Republicans.
Here are our top five articles:
Jane Smiley: Capitalist Pigs 1/17/2010 769
Unquestioning Support for Cops 7/28/2015 510
Friday Fun – Joe Biden Pranks: Time for Some Chuckles 11/16/2016 388
Michael Moore’s Five Point Plan 11/11/2016 256
Chomsky on Trump’s Election 11/26/2016
The count represents only the people who followed an external link to that specific article. Three were from November. Congrats to Nameless, who not only made the list, but also, had November’s top article.
Here are our top non-blog/news referrers (100 referral minimum):
Care2 2,694
Google 2,280
Stumbleupon 256
Google (Images) 100
Care2 is up by over 400, Google is up by over 350, Stumbleupon is up 60, Google (Images) made the list.
Here are our top blog/news referrers:
http://infidel753.blogspot.com/
http://www.dailykos.com/
http://bildungblog.blogspot.com/
http://oakcreekforum.blogspot.com/
http://hamsandwich66.blogspot.com/
https://blogofthebeardedone.wordpress.com/
https://ethicsalarms.com/
https://blogs.commons.georgetown.edu/
http://progressiveerupts.blogspot.com/
http://harpers.org/
http://thehill.com/
http://www.laborers860.com/
http://okjimmseggrollemporium.blogspot.com/
http://www.rose-rosetree.com/
We had 14 sites with 2 or more referrals, up 10 from October. Putting blogs’ links here increases the ratings of their sites, so this “linkey love” is our thank you for their support. I’m most pleased with the stat and that some of the sites that linked to us are household names.
We have 237,724 links on other websites, down over 100,000 from October. 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, I hope quality has gone up.
As of Midnight on December 1, we have 7,011 articles and 84,621 comments.
Congrats to Pat A. She won a Big Mouth Award in November, for the 84,000th 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 Editors are Joanne Dixon, aka JD the Erynator and Lona Goudswaard, aka Lona the Napster. I promoted them from Author in August to give them the ability to add graphics to comments and the ability to correct my innumerable typos.
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.
Given our expanded talent, I expect to continue our overall upward trend, although my medical 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 atr America’s only hope.
Remember, last month I warned you that every state is a swing state. You passed it on, but far too few heeded our warning. As more votes have come in, we now know that, if Jill Stein voters in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania had only voted responsibly, Hilary Clinton would be President elect today. Let’s work to prevent this from happening in 2020, if our nation survives.
18 Responses to “Monthly Report for November 2016”
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Thanks TC – a very impressive array of statistics.
(BTW, re Gravatar, does 'upload any image' mean that I have to supply a picture? I don't have any that I know how to transport from A to B – I do have a few digital pictures of flowers and my animals on my machine (in Windows 7 Photo Gallery, but they proved almost impossible to attach to emails). Or looking at the site, does it mean you can choose from an array of images? Or does anyone know of somewhere whence I could legally copy a picture?).
Pat, I'll send you a Care2 PM and address this as well as Daily Kos links.
Joanne you are so kind, but I don't have access to my Care2 page – TC and Lynn know my email address – could you send something there perhaps?
A lot of hard work goes into reporting this every month.
Thank you, Tom for all you do, (and our other administrators) as well.
I've been trying to post links from here when appropriate, but I am certainly not responsible for all that. Daily Kos I know I posted at least one. I thought I also posted in comments at AlterNet and Sojourners, but don't see them. Well, I'll try harder.
It may still be "slow", as you call it, TomCat, but note that in November all categories were up from October despite you taking two much deserved breaks to recuperate from the terrible blow of the election. Recuperation that many progressive Americans were in need of, I should think. As I've mentioned last month, I believe Politics Plus also has to contend with many more other sites, and internet activity in general, than one or two years ago. No doubt that's a Drumpf effect too; everyone is so busy commenting, twittering and following that they hardly have time to read and watch everything that is put out there.
So just keep up the marvelous work you do, TomCat, and don't worry too much about it.
Just a thought:
Might be a good idea to formulate a post/manual/tutorial on ways we can help generate more clicks to attract others seeking a way out of the impending apocalypse.
Great idea!
I third what Edie seconds.
Thanks. I'll think on that.
Jill Stein voters: Once again, the problem with 3rd party bullshit, given our system. Just what did the Jill Stein voters fucking prove?
Just what did the Jill Stein voters fucking prove?
That they were more interested in protecting their own ideological purity than in protecting the actual people who will now suffer under Trump.
Very well said. I would say that they are so vain that they want to consider themselves above political reality.
Sorry JD. I had tro delete the cartoon. Torb sells his work, so using it is an © violation. Cartoons are not safe to reuse.
Thanks for all your hard work. You have had a very hard year and have done an outstanding job, along with your editors and administrators in keeping the site going. I appreciate the hard work. I have a limited amount of time to spend on the computer, most of that is spent on this site every night.
Puddy Tat, you are doing an outstanding job. November is up, and as Drumpf destroys the country (unfortunately), your posts will help with the RESISTANCE as more and more people look for answers. Politics Plus —> "Charge of the Light Brigade" (Thanks Alfred, Lord Tennyson for the inspiration).
Thanks all. Hugs!!