Monthly Report for July 2012

In July, traffic here at Politics Plus was up in all major categories, except Unique Visits are down slightly.  That’s good, but we need to be better.

Reported period	Month Jul 2012
First visit	01 Jul 2012 – 00:00
Last visit	31 Jul 2012 – 23:59
	Unique visitors	Number of visits	Pages	Hits	Bandwidth
Viewed traffic *	11,735	33,078 (2.81 visits/visitor)	482,991 (14.6 Pages/Visit)	891,563 (26.95 Hits/Visit)	24.52 GB (777.29 KB/Visit)
Not viewed traffic *			288,200	346,069	7.89 GB

Not viewed traffic is people who read our blog without coming here, using RSS Readers, such as Feed Demon, and Aggregation sites, such as Google Reader and MyWeb.

Here are our 2011 stats.

And here are our 2012 stats so you can compare them.

Here is our most recent ClustrMap, last updated on August 1.  Note that our map reset on February 28.  The largest circles represent over 1,000 visits. The tiniest represent one to ten.

Our average durations were slightly up.

Number of visits: 33,078 – Average: 355 s	Number of visits	Percent
0s-30s	25,553	77.2 %
30s-2mn	1,203	3.6 %
2mn-5mn	780	2.3 %
5mn-15mn	1,449	4.3 %
15mn-30mn	1,292	3.9 %
30mn-1h	1,752	5.2 %
1h+	1,049	3.1 %

That’s expected, because we had more repeat visitors.

Here are our top five articles for July.

Open Thread–7/21/2012                                            7/21/2012  6,251 views

Republican ‘Expert’ Embarrassed on Voter Fraud       6/05/2012  5,721 views

Refusing to Cave-in                                                    7/20/2012  4,129 views

E.P.A. Moves to Curtail Greenhouse Gas Emissions  10/01/2009  4,037 views

Open Thread–7/20/2012                                            7/20/2012   3,822 views

That’s a big improvement.

Search engine referrals were mostly up.

16 different referring search engines	Pages	Percent	Hits	Percent
Google	5101	59.8 %	9,289	70.2 %
Stumbleupon (Social Bookmark)	2142	25.1 %	2,371	17.9 %
Digg (Social Bookmark)	634	7.4 %	634	4.7 %
Microsoft Bing	296	3.4 %	400	3 %
Yahoo!	173	2 %	261	1.9 %
Unknown search engines	55	0.6 %	63	0.4 %
AOL	43	0.5 %	44	0.3 %
Yandex	23	0.2 %	28	0.2 %
Google (Images)	17	0.1 %	87	0.6 %
Microsoft Windows Live	11	0.1 %	18	0.1 %
Microsoft MSN Search	10	0.1 %	12	0 %
Ask	7	0 %	7	0 %
MyWebSearch	4	0 %	4	0 %
Dogpile	2	0 %	3	0 %
Earth Link	1	0 %	1	0 %
Go.com			5	0 %

All are improving except Stumbleupon.

Our top five non-blog referrers are:

http://www.care2.com/             2,855

http://www.jabberwonk.com/       649

http://www.reddit.com/               286

http://www.facebook.com/           255

http://www.tumblr.com/              244

Care2 and Facebook are up.  The rest are down.

Our top 15 blog/news referrers are:

http://buzztalkmonitor.com/

http://synapticstew.com/

http://america-weeps.blogspot.com/

http://www.roseanneworld.com/

http://frieddogleg.blogspot.com/

http://bildungblog.blogspot.com/

http://reconstitution.us/rcnew/

http://infidel753.blogspot.com/

http://theleftinme.blogspot.com/

http://republic-of-gilead.blogspot.com/

http://twikle.com/

http://jackjodell53.wordpress.com/

http://themoderatevoice.com/

http://alterx.blogspot.com/

http://stfuconservatives.net/

http://okjimmseggrollemporium.blogspot.com/

http://www.mockpaperscissors.com/

There was a three way tie for 15th.  Here’s some linkey-love in return  The best ways you can spread the message to others is to use the share button at the bottom of each article to list our articles on the the networking sites where you belong. Quote PP articles on your own blogs also helps.  The operative commandment here is “thou shalt steal.”  We’re on the same side here, and I encourage it.  Even if you want to repost a whole article, that’s OK.  Just link back, please.  Also, feel free to swipe my graphics in the articles.  If they are labeled with our Politics Plus URL, they are my work.

Here are the top fifteen commenters for June.  The reason they are June’s is that I screwed up and didn’t copy July’s list before it scrolled off.  My bad.  I don’t count, as I’m the resident big mouth, and I try to reply to every comment, except replies directed at someone else.  Those who leave their URLs in their comments, also get linkey-love here.

Lynn Squance (128)

Patty (71)

SoINeedAName (66)

Rixar13 (48)

Phyllis (46)

Jerry Critter (38)

Edith Belcher (25)

mamabear (21)

Angelica (19)

Steve (14)

Jolly Roger (12)

John Dasef (8)

Lisa G. (8)

Marva (7)

Infidel753 (5)

We have 602,987 links on other websites, a healthy increase.

Our Technorati.rating is up to 423, high on the B list.  I have no idea why.  Despite over half a million links, Technorati only recognizes links on sites that have registered at Technorati.  Because we had so much traffic on Buzzflash.net, a registered site, we used to be an A list blog.  Buzzflash.net is gone and with the slowdown, we’re back to B list.  If Care2 were to register with Technorati, we’d be in fat city.

We have 3,586 articles and 33,740 comments, as of midnight 8/1.

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Your participation remains a major part of what makes this blog worth reading, not to mention worth writing.  Thank you all for all you do, here and elsewhere, to support progressive solutions.  Together we are make are difference.

Although we continue to improve, we are still  under the traffic we had a year ago.  That’s only partially because I’m posting a little less than I did then to take better care of myself.  The big reason we’re down is still that many of the tools I used to publicize our articles are no longer available. That makes your help that much more important.  We are less than 100 days from an election upon which America’s future depends.  We have work to do.