In April, Politics Plus was little changed from February and March, for which I was too ill to provide a Monthly Report.
Here is our latest summary:
Data from April 2015:
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Reported period |
Month Apr 2015 |
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First visit |
01 Apr 2015 – 00:00 |
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Last visit |
30 Apr 2015 – 05:59 |
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Unique visitors |
Number of visits |
Pages |
Hits |
Bandwidth |
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Viewed traffic * |
9,665
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26,000 (2.69 visits/visitor) |
78,830 (3.03 Pages/Visit) |
228,103 (8.77 Hits/Visit) |
3.28 GB (132.28 KB/Visit) |
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Not viewed traffic * |
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315,547 |
358,509 |
5.06 GB |
Data from April 2014:
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Reported period |
Month Apr 2014 |
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First visit |
01 Apr 2014 – 00:00 |
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Last visit |
30 Apr 2014 – 23:58 |
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Unique visitors |
Number of visits |
Pages |
Hits |
Bandwidth |
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Viewed traffic * |
11,185
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34,084 (3.04 visits/visitor) |
81,302 (2.38 Pages/Visit) |
257,508 (7.55 Hits/Visit) |
3.87 GB (119.05 KB/Visit) |
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Not viewed traffic * |
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299,711 |
345,457 |
4.48 GB |
This April was a significant decline from last.
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, and politically active.
Here is our latest ClustrMap:
ClustrMap misses a lot of, because many visits can’t be easily traced to a location. It shows only the visits from March 3 to April 26, when it was last updated. Having been reset to zero, since the last one you saw, this is much sparser.
Here are our top five articles:
Happy Easter! 4/10/2012 2,647
Jane Smiley: Capitalist Pigs 11/17/2010 1,046
Open Thread–4/6/2015 250
Matthews Hits Home on Iran 4/7/2015 175
Liz on Hillary 4/9/2015 171
The count represents only the people who followed an external link to that specific article. I’m pleased to see three from April.
Here are our top non-blog/news referrers:
Google 3,300
Care2 1,886
Stumbleupon 370
Two are down. Google is up.
Here are our top blog/news referrers:
http://infidel753.blogspot.com/
http://bildungblog.blogspot.com/
http://oakcreekforum.blogspot.com/
http://welcome-to-pottersville2.blogspot.com/
Normally I have included fifteen here, but these four are the only ones with two or more referrals. This is the one stat that disappoints me most, because it means that we are no longer a go-to site for bloggers. Putting their links here increases the ratings of their sites, so this “linkey love” is our thank you for their support.
Here are our top commentators. As the resident Big Mouth, I don’t count. Those who leave their URLs in their comment headers, also get “linkey-love” here.
Lynn Squance (117)
Joanne D (100)
Edie (94)
Patty (93)
Pat A (80)
jla (59)
SoINeedAName (52)
Vivian B. (37)
Jerry Critter (25)
Jim Phillips (20)
mamabear (20)
Avril Lomas (5)
dave c (3)
Dotti Lydon (3)
Infidel753 (3)
Steve (3)
There are over 15, because of a tie. People who submit articles to Care2 can use their submitted news link from there. These are the people that kept PP alive during my illness. I did credit Patty foe Pstty’s comments. 🙂
We have 349,788 links on other websites.
As of Midnight on May 1, we have 5,495 articles and 63,207 comments.
Kudos to Vivian for posting the 63,000th 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.
To be clear, we’ve has two lousy months, and that is not your fault in any way. The main cause was the severe bout of flu I had that kept me down for the bulk of both months. The Republican budget makes it clear that their economic “solution” is to keep taking from the poor and middle classes to provide welfare for billionaires and corporate criminals. Their political “solution” is still to lie, cheat and steal, whenever and wherever they can. We still have our work cut out for us. Whether you support Bernie or Hillary, I ask that you refrain from attacking the other and base your arguments on the good things about your choice. However, it’s open season on the Republican candidates.
Thank you for all that you do, here and elsewhere. You are what makes this site happen!!
11 Responses to “Monthly Report for April 2015”
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What a sweet thing for you to say! I doubt if any of us were thinking that the blog needed to be kept alive. You, yes, of course. If anything we posted encouraged you, that is our reward. (Incidentally apropos of nothing I was messing with my profile on Daily Kos and realized I could put my own blogroll there. So of course I put Politics Plus there.)
Thanks!
I'm with Joanne and some of it is seasonal with weather improving and people spending less time on-line with their outside options.
I hope you are feeling well now!!
I am so proud to have the 63,000 comment! It surprised me when I saw my name on the article about it! Lynne Squance is usually the one that wins that award!
The next month’s will be better, TC! Love the PP Blog!
Vivian, the more people post their comments on PP, the more chances that a fresh face will win the Big Mouth Award. It is totally chance, but it does not include comments on Care2, only PP.
Congrats to 63,000! We expect to hear from you a lot more!
The past 2 months might have been a bit down but there is no fault attached in any way. Sickness happens to us all! There is still no better blog going in my books. We're right behind you!
Now with a Democrat primary on the horizon, things will start heating up. The presidential election is only 18 months away. Your fingers are going to be down to stubs by then with all your blogging and educating! Thanks for all the work you do!
I hope you are back to feeling your frisky feline self again.
I know I'm not here as much and I try to stop in every day at least for a bit. I'm busy outside now that the weather is nicer. I was able to go for a 2 mile bicyle ride on my one-speed Schwinn. Pure heaven. I need to exercise my leg and I couldn't get out to walk much in the nastiest winter we've had in many years.
I will be starting my garden soon but I have to build my deer-proof raised bed first. So I will be here as much as I can.
The stats still look impressive to me, TomCat. And, I agree with Lynne, things are going to start heating up everywhere as the election campaigns get into full swing. That will also bring out the trolls, those that aren't already sitting in Congress anyway. But whack-a-troll is a fun game too. :^)
Thanks all.
Gene, trolls are rarely a problem here. We have a "no personal attacks against me or people who comment" rule here at PP. Even Republicans are welcome to post their views,, and nobody is allowed to attack them for doing so. However, after their "facts" are disproven, and their allegations are debunked, Republicans virtually always resort to personal attacks, get a warning, keep attacking, and get banned.
The down side is that I have actually lost friends on the left for not allowing them to flame Republicans.
Well, isn't THAT a fine mess! Though I am not sure you aren't better off without lefties who can't keep it civil. They make us all look so bad, I sometimes wonder whether they are really lefties at all.
TY TC – so glad you appreciate our efforts – and we appreciate yours!