Politics Plus

In February, I expected a big statistical shortfall, because I was ill and gone for almost one-fourth of the month, but Politics Plus exceeded my expectations.  We actually increased in every category except number if visits.  I’m amazed.

	Unique visitors	Number of visits	Pages	Hits	Bandwidth
Viewed traffic	25,114	47,925 (1.9 visits/visitor)	427,712 (8.92 Pages/Visit)	1,723,884 (35.97 Hits/Visit)	25.12 GB (549.57 KB/Visit)
Not viewed traffic			295,473	384,539	5.84 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 March 1.  Note that our map reset, as it does once a year, on February 28, so this map represents only one day of traffic.  The largest circles represent over 100 visits. The tiniest represent one to ten.

Our average durations were down from 335 seconds last month.

Number of visits: 47,925 – Average: 260 s	Number of visits	Percent
0s-30s	38,932	81.2 %
30s-2mn	1,987	4.1 %
2mn-5mn	1,160	2.4 %
5mn-15mn	1,629	3.3 %
15mn-30mn	1,341	2.7 %
30mn-1h	1,794	3.7 %
1h+	1,082	2.2 %

That’s OK, because last month was exceptionally high.

Here are our top five articles for February.

E.P.A. Moves to Curtail Greenhouse Gas Emissions  10/1/2009 4,370 views

Walker Aides Busted!                                          1/7/2012  2,774 views

Maddow Outdoes Republicans with Truth                2/6/2012  2,284 views

Obama’s Policies Are Working                                2/20/2012  1,856 views

Walker Steals Mortgage Settlement Money                 2/11/2012 1,847 views

Search engine referrals were down.

18 different referring search engines	Pages	Percent	Hits	Percent
Google	7697	68.1 %	13,884	55.2 %
Stumbleupon (Social Bookmark)	2994	26.4 %	10,429	41.5 %
Yahoo!	144	1.2 %	188	0.7 %
Microsoft Bing	121	1 %	183	0.7 %
Digg (Social Bookmark)	98	0.8 %	100	0.3 %
Google (Images)	55	0.4 %	99	0.3 %
Microsoft MSN Search	53	0.4 %	55	0.2 %
AOL	37	0.3 %	38	0.1 %
Unknown search engines	35	0.3 %	42	0.1 %
Ask	27	0.2 %	27	0.1 %
Microsoft Windows Live	20	0.1 %	50	0.1 %
MyWebSearch	9	0 %	9	0 %
Dogpile	5	0 %	5	0 %
Yandex	4	0 %	9	0 %
Earth Link	1	0 %	1	0 %
Alexa	1	0 %	1	0 %
Mamma			4	0 %
Go.com			1	0 %

Stumbleupon continues to disappoint, since they changed their format.

Our top five non-blog referrers are:

http://www.reddit.com/          10,134

http://www.care2.com/             4,833

http://www.jabberwonk.com/       881

http://www.facebook.com/           737

http://current.com/                     330

Our top 15 blog/news referrers are:

http://crooksandliars.com/

http://jackjodell53.wordpress.com/

http://synapticstew.com/

http://reconstitution.us/rcnew/

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

http://infidel753.blogspot.com/

http://www.democraticunderground.com/

http://parsleyspics.blogspot.com/

http://www.juancole.com/

http://themoderatevoice.com/

http://bildungblog.blogspot.com/

http://okjimmseggrollemporium.blogspot.com/

http://frieddogleg.blogspot.com/

http://madmikesamerica.com/

http://whohijackedourcountry.blogspot.com/

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 January are.  I actually copied them off in time. The widget is in the right column.  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, get linkey-love here.

Lynn Squance (151)

Patty (88)

SoINeedAName (58)

Phyllis (45)

Rixar13 (43)

Jack Jodell (30)

Jerry Critter (30)

Lee (29)

Lisa G. (25)

Jolly Roger (20)

mamabear (11)

Angelica (7)

John Dasef (6)

Infidel753 (5)

zada (5)

We have 590,390 links on other websites, up from 623,138 last month.

Technorati still recognizes we exist, but still not as a political blog.  Our authority rating is 494 and our rank is the 2,759th most influential blog of all types in the world.

We have 3,234 articles and 29,777 comments, as of midnight 3/1.

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.  Whenever you comment under that email address here or on any WordPress blog (several others too), that image will be your avatar.

Your participation remains a major part of what makes this blog worth reading, not to mention worth writing.  Many people who visit here have told me that they come here to read your comments in addition to my articles, and people continue to write comments about your comments on other sites.  Politics Plus exists to help end right-wing insanity and send the Republican Party the way of the Whigs.  Thank you all for all you do, here and elsewhere, to help make that happen.  Together we will make a difference.

In October, Politics Plus enjoyed record highs in Uniques, Page views, and Bandwidth.  I consider page views most important, because to generate more than one page view on a visit, someone has to open other articles to actually read your comments.  It was our second best month for Visitors, and third best for Hits.  This both surprised and pleased me, because we lost our second biggest Non-blog referrer, Buzzflash.  They are no more.  Furthermore, our traffic from Stumbleupon continues to drop, because their format changes have been so unpopular that people are leaving in droves.  On top of that I missed four days.

Here are our basic stats:

In addition we also had 285,411 page views, 376,138 hits and and 7.16 GB of external traffic.  These are mainly from people reading articles from our RSS feed instead of coming to the site to do so.

Here is our most recent ClustrMap, last updated on November 1.

Our ClustrMap reset the morning of 2/28/2011, starting over from scratch. This map counts only visits since then. The largest circles represent over 1,000 visits. The tiniest represent one to ten.

Our average durations were down from 211 seconds last month:

Number of visits: 52,187 – Average: 209 s	Number of visits	Percent
0s-30s	43,757	83.8 %
30s-2mn	2,627	5 %
2mn-5mn	1,051	2 %
5mn-15mn	1,260	2.4 %
15mn-30mn	911	1.7 %
30mn-1h	1,595	3 %
1h+	986	1.8 %

That essentially unchanged.

Search engine referrals were up, except for Stumbleupon.

23 different referring search engines	Pages	Percent	Hits	Percent
Google	6252	55.1 %	8,933	53.2 %
Stumbleupon (Social Bookmark)	4377	38.6 %	6,774	40.3 %
Yahoo!	180	1.5 %	286	1.7 %
Microsoft Bing	163	1.4 %	261	1.5 %
Microsoft MSN Search	145	1.2 %	145	0.8 %
AOL	46	0.4 %	46	0.2 %
Ask	45	0.3 %	45	0.2 %
Unknown search engines	41	0.3 %	42	0.2 %
Google (Images)	31	0.2 %	51	0.3 %
Microsoft Windows Live	28	0.2 %	66	0.3 %
MyWebSearch	8	0 %	11	0 %
Dogpile	5	0 %	7	0 %
Virgilio	4	0 %	4	0 %
Digg (Social Bookmark)	3	0 %	32	0.1 %
Earth Link	2	0 %	2	0 %
WebCrawler	2	0 %	2	0 %
Yandex	2	0 %	19	0.1 %
T-Online	1	0 %	1	0 %
Kvasir	1	0 %	1	0 %
Scroogle	1	0 %	1	0 %
GoodSearch	1	0 %	1	0 %
Mamma			5	0 %
Go.com			39	0.2 %

Our top four non-blog referrers are:

http://www.reddit.com/               17,436

http://www.care2.com/                 4,583

http://www.jabberwonk.com/           964

http://www.facebook.com/               478

Our top 15 blog referrers are:

http://crooksandliars.com/

http://jbm479.wordpress.com/

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

http://parsleyspics.blogspot.com/

http://infidel753.blogspot.com/

http://jackjodell53.wordpress.com/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

http://whohijackedourcountry.blogspot.com/

http://bildungblog.blogspot.com/

http://themanwhowalksalonewalksfaster.blogspot.com/

http://reconstitution.us/rcnew/

http://katieschwartz.com/

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

http://okjimmseggrollemporium.blogspot.com/

http://progressiveerupts.blogspot.com/

http://www.oakcreekforum.blogspot.com/

There is an extra, because there was a tie for 15th place.

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.

The top fifteen commenters for September are not missing this time, because I actually remembered to copy them off in time on the night of the 31st.  Here they are:

• Lynn Squance (132)
• Patty (94)
• SoINeedAName (70)
• Phyllis (61)
• Memphis Johnny (47)
• Jerry Critter (38)
• Jack Jodell (31)
• lee (31)
• TWM (13)
• AnnH (12)
• Blue (12)
• Lisa G. (12)
• Maria (11)
• Tom (11)
• Charles (10)
• Jolly Roger (10)

The widget is in the right column.  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, get linkey-love.

Technorati makes even less sense again this month.  Our performance was up, but the site that gave us the vast majority of our influential referrals is gone.  Politics and US Politics ratings are down, as expected, but our Global rating is up, putting us back on the A list.  I have no idea why.  They removed our World rating again for reasons unknown.    Still, with 450 million active, English language blogs in the world, it’s great to be in the top 2,500.  This site’s authorities across Technorati:

We have 884,291 links on other websites, up from 417,917 last month.

We have 2,914 articles and 25,360 comments, as of midnight 11/1.

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.  Whenever you comment under that email address here or on any WordPress blog (several others too), that image will be your avatar.

I removed the called sendlove.to, because you weren’t using it. 

I could not find a Smiley toolbar compatible with our full featured graphic editor that gives you a wide range of ways you can express yourselves, including pictures.  I posted a separate page listing text shortcuts for smileys that you can keep open in a different tab.

Your participation remains a major part of what makes this blog worth reading, not to mention worth writing. Many people who visit here have told me that they come here to read your comments in addition to my articles, and people continue to write comments about your comments on other sites.  Politics Plus exists to help end right-wing insanity and send the Republican Party the way of the Whigs.  Thank you all for all you do, here and elsewhere, to help make that happen.  Our success is because of you.

In September, Politics Plus performed very well. Uniques and visits were up, the third highest this year.  Page views, hits and bandwidth were all time record highs. I consider page views most important, because to generate more than one page view on a visit, someone has to open other articles to actually read your comments.

Here are our basic stats:

In addition we also had 189,927 page views, 268,069 hits and and 8.98 GB of external traffic.  These are mainly from people reading articles from our RSS feed instead of coming to the site to do so.

Here is our most recent Clustrmap, last updated on October 1.

Our Clustrmap reset the morning of 2/28/2011, starting over from scratch. This map counts only visits since then. The largest circles represent over 1,000 visits. The tiniest represent one to ten.

Our average durations were down from 232 seconds last month:

Number of visits: 45,606 – Average: 211 s	Number of visits	Percent
0s-30s	37,754	82.7 %
30s-2mn	2,111	4.6 %
2mn-5mn	1,170	2.5 %
5mn-15mn	1,433	3.1 %
15mn-30mn	992	2.1 %
30mn-1h	1,369	3 %
1h+	777	1.7 %

That’s normal, because more visitors usually include more pit stops.

Search engine referrals were up, except for Stumbleupon.

22 different referring search engines	Pages	Percent	Hits	Percent
Stumbleupon (Social Bookmark)	5472	48.2 %	6,536	44 %
Google	5088	44.8 %	7,210	48.5 %
Microsoft MSN Search	286	2.5 %	286	1.9 %
Yahoo!	164	1.4 %	258	1.7 %
Microsoft Bing	120	1 %	175	1.1 %
AOL	51	0.4 %	51	0.3 %
Microsoft Windows Live	44	0.3 %	65	0.4 %
Google (Images)	42	0.3 %	65	0.4 %
Unknown search engines	41	0.3 %	42	0.2 %
Ask	21	0.1 %	21	0.1 %
Yandex	8	0 %	28	0.1 %
MyWebSearch	4	0 %	10	0 %
Dogpile	2	0 %	3	0 %
Virgilio	2	0 %	3	0 %
Earth Link	1	0 %	1	0 %
MetaCrawler (Metamoteur)	1	0 %	1	0 %
WebCrawler	1	0 %	1	0 %
Baidu	1	0 %	3	0 %
Kvasir	1	0 %	1	0 %
Scroogle	1	0 %	1	0 %
Mamma			30	0.2 %
Go.com			51	0.3 %

Our top five non-blog referrers are:

http://www.reddit.com/               9,450+

http://www.care2.com/               4,650+

http://www.buzzflash.net/            2,500+

http://www.jabberwonk.com/           850+

http://www.facebook.com/               850+

Our top 15 blog referrers are:

http://jbm479.wordpress.com/

http://www.randirhodes.com/main.html

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

http://parsleyspics.blogspot.com/

http://themanwhowalksalonewalksfaster.blogspot.com/

http://synapticstew.com/

http://infidel753.blogspot.com/

http://whohijackedourcountry.blogspot.com/

http://annette-justmylittlepieceoftheworld.blogspot.com/

http://jackjodell53.wordpress.com/

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

http://reconstitution.us/rcnew/

http://www.oakcreekforum.blogspot.com/

http://katieschwartz.com/

http://bildungblog.blogspot.com/

http://carolinaparrothead.blogspot.com/

http://themoderatevoice.com/

There are extras, because there was a three way tie for 15th place.

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.

The top fifteen commenters for September are not missing this time, because I actually remembered to copy them off in time on the night of the 30th.  Here they are:

Lynn Squance (125)

Patty (89)

Phyllis (64)

SoINeedAName (57)

lee (46)

Jerry Critter (39)

Memphis Johnny (38)

Jack Jodell (36)

TWM (36)

Lisa G. (33)

AnnH (25)

Blue (14)

Tom (14)

Maria (13)

Jolly Roger (10)

The widget is in the right column.  I don’t count, as I’m the resident big mouth, and I try to reply to every comment.  Those who leave their URLs in their comments, get linkey love.

Technorati makes little sense again this month.  Our performance was up, but our ratings remained the same, except that they restored our World rating for reasons unknown.   We are still B list globally, but A list in both of our intended categories.  This site’s authorities across Technorati:

We have 471,917 links on other websites, down from 507,580 last month.

We have 2,812 articles and 24,o83 comments, as of midnight 10/1.

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.  Whenever you comment under that e mail address here or on any WordPress blog (several others too), that image will be your avatar.

We have a plug-in called sendlove.to.  To vote or give your opinion about any of the famous people in an article, go to the comments page and click the tab for that person.  Register using your Google, Facebook or Twitter ID.  It’s quite enjoyable, and voting Republicans down is a great stress reliever.  Have any of you uses this and how do you like it?

I replaced the standard comment editor with a full featured graphic editor that give you a wide range of ways you can express yourselves, including pictures.  Sadly, I learned yesterday that it conflicts with our smiley button.  If I cannot find a compatible add-in, I’ll post a separate page listing text shortcuts for smilies that you can keep open in a different tab.  Please be patient.  I’ll do it as soon as time permits.

Your participation remains a major part of what makes this blog worth reading, not to mention worth writing. Many people who visit here have told me that they come here to read your comments in addition to my articles, and people have even written comments about your comments on other sites.  Politics Plus exists to help end right-wing insanity and send the Republican Party the way of the Whigs.  Thank you all for all you do, here and elsewhere, to help make that happen.