Monthly Report for August 2018

Compared to July, August results were down in every category except visits.  I have no idea why.

Here is our latest summary:

Compared with last August, we are way down in Uniques, and way up in all other categories.  Fewer visitors doing much more is a win.

Here is our ClustrMap for 2018 YTD.  This is eight months’ traffic.

ClustrMap misses a lot of visits, because many visits can’t be easily traced to a location.

Here are our top five articles:

Select Election Results from 8/7/2018 8/8/2018 895
Republicans on Parade – 8/7/2018 8/7/2018 880
Republican pseudo-Christian Love 8/5/2018 836
Perez Screwed the Pooch 8/12/2018 805
Bill Maher from 8/17 8/18/2018 805

The count represents only the people who opened the page for that specific article.  All were from this year.   All were from August.  I wrote all five.  I would have been happier to see more of our other authors’ work represented here.  JD, Nameless and Squatch have written fine articles.   Lona has not recovered from the great  migration, but has been nʍod ǝdᴉsdn for over a month, so we expect her back soon.

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

Care2   3,074
Google 2,928
Baidu 126

All were down from last month.  Google was WAY down.  I used to visit Stumbleupon every day, and they kept making "improvements" that drove regulars away.  When they drove me away, many were saying they would "improve" it out of business.  They did, so they are not on the list.

Here are our top  blog/news referrers:

http://infidel753.blogspot.com/
http:/bildungblog.blogspot.com/
http://progressiveerupts.blogspot.com/
http://jackjodell.blogspot.com/

We had 4sites with 2 or more referrals, down 3 from July.  Putting blogs’ links here increases the ratings of their sites, so this “linkey love” is our thank you for their referral support.  We still need to improve this.  Since May, I cleaned up our blog roll and found most of the sites either were gone or had not published for years. Now I still need to visit the few who remain.

As of midnight September 1, we had 8,440 articles and 101,047 comments.

Kudos to Pat B, who earned a Big Mouth Award in June for making the 101,000th comment.  Last month, Mitch opted not to accept his prize.  I decided to give the prize of a Politics Plus mug and a Politics Plus T Shirt to the 101,000 level winner.  From now on, Big Mouth winners at 10,000 levels will have their choice of a PP mug or a PP T Shirt.  Staff will remain eligible to be winners at the 1,000 levels,  Winners at prize winning levels will be the first non-staff commenter.  If any staff member wants a mug or a T Shirt, let me know.

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 2017 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.

We now have just a bit over two months, before we will have a major opportunity to reclaim part of our nation from the fascist Reich that possesses all three branches of government.  Please do every thing you can.

Thank you for your support here, and kudos for all the good you do, everywhere you do it.

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