Last month, Uniques, Visits, and Pages were up from November. Hits and Bandwidth were slightly down. We might have done better were people not suffering from outrage exhaustion, and were the Care2 Glitch Monster not rampaging.
Here is our latest summary:
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Month Dec 2016 |
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First visit |
01 Dec 2016 – 00:00 |
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Last visit |
31 Dec 2016 – 23:59 |
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Unique visitors |
Number of visits |
Pages |
Hits |
Bandwidth |
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Viewed traffic * |
9,993
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28,413 (2.84 visits/visitor) |
84,232 (2.96 Pages/Visit) |
255,997 (9 Hits/Visit) |
6.74 GB (248.66 KB/Visit) |
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Not viewed traffic * |
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392,674 |
452,771 |
8.67 GB |
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Reported period |
Month Dec 2015 |
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First visit |
01 Dec 2015 – 00:00 |
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Last visit |
31 Dec 2015 – 23:59 |
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Unique visitors |
Number of visits |
Pages |
Hits |
Bandwidth |
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Viewed traffic * |
10,694
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31,929 (2.98 visits/visitor) |
117,395 (3.67 Pages/Visit) |
321,420 (10.06 Hits/Visit) |
5.72 GB (187.76 KB/Visit) |
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Not viewed traffic * |
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461,461 |
527,192 |
8.78 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, and poor to middle class. We are about 40% male and 60% female.
Here is our ClustrMap for 2016.
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 have made several different formats available, including one in Russian for Republicans.
Here are our top five articles:
Jane Smiley: Capitalist Pigs 1/17/2010 979
Is Mad Dog Such a Bad Dog? 12/7/2016 434
Unquestioning Support for Cops 7/28/2016 353
My Christmas Greeting 12/25/2016 250
Everyday Erinyes #53 12/3/2016 242 (Posted by JD)
The count represents only the people who followed an external link to that specific article. Three were from December. Congrats to JD, who wrote one of them.
Here are our top non-blog/news referrers (100 referral minimum):
Google 2,649
Care2 2,429
Stumbleupon 246
Care2 is way down by over 400, Google is up by almost 400, Stumbleupon is down 10, Google (Images) did not make the list.
Here are our top blog/news referrers:
http://infidel753.blogspot.com/
http://crooksandliars.com/
http://bildungblog.blogspot.com/
http://oakcreekforum.blogspot.com/
http://progressiveerupts.blogspot.com/
http://marketwatch666.blogspot.com/
http://www.synapticstew.com/
http://whitenoiseinsanity.com/
http://hamsandwich66.blogspot.com/
http://leftwingnutjob.blogspot.com/
http://theleftinme.blogspot.com/
We had 12 sites with 2 or more referrals, down 2 from November. 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 240,827 links on other websites, up 3,000 from November. 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 January 1, we have 7,084 articles and 85,580 comments.
Congrats to Pat B. She won a Big Mouth Award in November, for the 85,000th 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 resume our overall upward trend, although my medical problems are still interfering with my writing. Please help by sharing 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!”, although surviving might be mjore operative, temporarily.
Thank you for all that you do, here and elsewhere. You are why we succeed! You and other activists are America’s only hope.
Remember, before the election I kept warning you that every state was 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 voters for Jill Stein, the Green who colluded with Putin, in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania had only voted responsibly, Hillary Clinton would be President elect today. America's best hope is to transform the Democratic Party into the party it should have been. That is done best at the local level, but at the same time we need to fight back nationally.
RESIST!!
17 Responses to “Monthly Report for December 2016”
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Amen! Which is the point of supporting Keith Ellison for DNC chair. These petitions are the same two I posted in the New Year's Card, so if you signed them then, you don't need to re-sign. There are others around, of course.
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/make-keith-ellison-the-dnc-chair
https://go.berniesanders.com/page/s/keith-ellison-dnc
Thanks as always for your hard work.
P.S. This may possibly relate to some Care2 people (and others).
Ain't that the truth!
I know exactly how that cat feels.
Please to see myself in good company, but isn't that "Stone Cold Truth" a Trumpanzee site? I checked it out since I hadn't heard of it before, and it certainly looks like one. Interesting if they've been linking to you.
I thought it was a pro-pot site; Thanks. I pulled the link!
Amen JD!!!
Hey, how did you get the picture into the comment? I have no problem getting it into the library of course, just into the comment. I tried using the 'image' button, but no go. Thanks
Sent you an email. Let me know if it's not clear.
In the libtary view it and copy the URL into your clipboard. Then open the photo tool in the comment and paste the URL.
I have dreams about thet cat conundrum!
Thank you Tom for all your hard work, and in all that you do. Kudos!! as well to Lynn, Nameless, Joanne and Lona.
You do a wonderful job, and I certainly appreciat y'all.
Thank you, again.
*I believe that I had signed those petitions before, but it let me do it again, so I did. thx! 😉
LOVE the saying/picture too.
Your numbers seem to be at a steady level and I think that's a good sign as people are still in the dumps after the election yet the competition is stiff because of the rising resistance. So many people are waking up and want to voice their opinion and outrage that sometimes you can't see the wood from the trees.So a steady rate is good.
Much will depend on the amount of outrage Drumpf will create in 2017 and how soon the Republicans are able to "normalize" it, but also on what happens in the rest of the world, but ff you can maintain a steady level all through the year you will have done a very good job. But of course you've always done that: a very good job.
I see in the demographics that the ratio of women to men is rising! We must be pretty smart to hangout here!
December is a slower month with Christmas etc so |I would say things are going quite well. And Drumpf promises to keep us busy! Thanks for all you do Puddy Tat!
Resist!!!
Yup, we are still are a well-educated group of a continuous aging of commentators in PP.
We need to reach out and attract the younger people to participate in reading the news posted and commentating on them here in PP as well as in its counterpart in C2.
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Jim is right. The Democrats (sorry, Joanne, I still think Keith (who is a Minnesotan) is the wrong person) have, perhaps purposefully, in which case Keith is the right choice, left the FL out of their planning and organization. They sometimes talk about Labor, but I don't think they have anything to offer given how steeply unionization has dropped off, and that traditional union jobs like manufacturing are NOT coming back and public employee unions just aren't representative of traditional labor. They've lost the rural vote to republicans, at least for now, but these aren't the Farmers of the old DFL, those were a group I grew up amongst and they had solid middle class values, favored infrastructure developments and smaller government than we have proven to need since the development of BIG agriculture and its derivatives like Monsanto. Big agriculture is of the 1% variety, small family farms have all but disappeared, that base of the old DFL is lost forever, but rural America is not – but the modern party pays no attention at all to rural America, only urban populations and issues – which one can see easily when looking at the cluster map of where Trump and Hillary voters live.
If the Democrats continue their present course, if they continue to not court, nor care about those who live in rural areas, nor work to foster unionization in the new sweatshops that are replacing traditional manufacturing as well as actively court and support programs and policies to help our poorest get educated and become upwardly mobile, retain and sell the ideas that Bernie brought forth so clearly in his campaign, well, even though Keith Ellison is Bernie's choice, they are going to remain a minor player and a minor party. Winning the popular vote is nice but it does not give the party control of state legislatures or governor's offices which is where the battle for hearts and minds will be fought first as the next generation of voters come into the mix. The focus has to be on youth and how we ALL help each other be free, educated, healthy, safe and leave no group behind. That is a tall order but it is also the only way we increase the size of our tent and bring new, fresh faces into the fold, while the republican party ages out. I hope I live long enough to see that at least well and solidly begun.
Well, Gene, you have earned my respect, and if you disagree with me, I consider it very seriously. Since I discovered that the Minnesota Democratic Party is actually called the DFL Party, I have admired the State for doing that, and certainly the national Democratic Party is not at all good at including (small) Farmers and Labor. Keith at least is a member of a state party whose NAME includes them, even if the Party doesn't. Tell me, if not Keith, who would you suggest? My feeling is that the others who are currently running would be between worse and much worse.
Gene, who would you suggest as an alternative to Keith?
Thanks all. Hugs!!