Compared to June, July results were down in Uniques and Pages and up in every other category.  That means, we have fewer visitors who are gone in seconds, and more who do something here, but not quite as much as in June.  That’s a small win.

Here is our latest summary:

Compared with last June, we are 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 seven 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:

Fourth of July 2018 7/4/2018 865
Personal Update – 7/14/2018 – 7/14/2018 698
The Piñata Hit Back! – 7/13/2018 691
What Happened to Bill? – 7/8/2018 668
For Ogling Only – 7/9/2018 647

The count represents only the people who opened the page for that specific article.  All were from this year.   All were from July.  I wrote all five.  I would have been happier to see more of our other authors’ work represented here.  JD’s, Nameless’ and Squatch’s  articles have to be more interesting than a story of me blowing up eggs in the microwave. Lona has been making the great  migration and has been nʍod ǝdᴉsdn for a week now.

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

Google 8,359
Care2   3,390
Stumbleupon  355
Baidu 164

All were down from last month.  Facebook did not make the list.

Here are our top  blog/news referrers:

http://infidel753.blogspot.com/
http://bildungblog.blogspot.com/
http://oakcreekforum.blogspot.com/
http://progressiveerupts.blogspot.com/
http://hamsandwich66.blogspot.com/
http://alterx.blogspot.com/
http://americablog.com/

We had 7 sites with 2 or more referrals, up 4 from June.  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 August 1, we had 8,372 articles and 100,278 comments.

Kudos to Mitch, who earned a Big Mouth Award in June for making the 100,000 comment.  Mitch opted not to accept his prize and suggested I auction it for a charity.  I don’t think he realized either how much extra work that entails, or how totally swamped I am.  I just can’t do it.  So 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.

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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 only days, before we will have a major opportunity to reclaim part of our nation from the fascist Reich that possesses all three branches of government.  If you haven’t started working toward that end, you are way past due.

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

RESIST!!

VOTE BLUE!!

95 DAYS!!

Compared to April, May results were down in Bandwidth and strongly up in every other category.  That’s excellent news.

Here is our latest summary:

Compared with last May, we are down in Uniques and Visits and up in every other category.  That means fewer visitors are doing more.

Here is our ClustrMap for 2018 YTD.  This is five 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:

Monthly Report for April 2018 5/2/2018 748
Memorial Day 5/28/2018 719
This Week’s Most Outrageous Republican Moments 5/26/2018 718
Bernie on the Iran Nuclear Deal 5/15/2018 692
PhD in Bullshitology 5/25/2018

The count represents only the people who opened the page for that specific article.  All were from May.   I wrote all 5.  I am somewhat surprised that our lead article was a Monthly Report.  I would have been happier to see more of our other authors’ work represented here.  Lona has been preparing for the great  migration, and the Squatch has been hiding from green tornados, but Nameless, and especially JD published some truly superior articles.

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

Care2  3,857
Google 3,329
Stumbleupon 545
Baidu 141
Reddit 125

Google was down, and Care2 was up.  Stumbleupon and Baidu were virtually unchanged.  Reddit made the list, and Facebook did not.

Here are our top  blog/news referrers:

http://infidel753.blogspot.com/
http://bildungblog.blogspot.com/
http://littlewinginc.blogspot.com/
http://oakcreekforum.blogspot.com/search
https://hubpages.com/
http://globalglassonion.blogspot.be
http://www.synapticstew.com/

We had 7 sites with 2 or more referrals, down 4 from April.  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.  I still think I need to start visiting our blog roll, which is terribly out of date.

As of midnight June 1, we had 8,238 articles and 98,769 comments.

Kudos to Richard, who earned a Big Mouth Award in May for making the 98,000 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 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 five months, before we will have a major opportunity to reclaim part of our nation from the monster that possesses all three branches of government.  If you haven’t started working toward that end, you are way past due.

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

RESIST!!

VOTE BLUE!

Compared to February, March results were down in Uniques and strongly up in every other category.  I’m not sure why, but I’m pleased.

Here is our latest summary:

Compared with last March  we are down in Uniques and Visits and up in every other category.

Here is our ClustrMap for 2018 YTD.  If it seems sparse, remember that this is only three month’s traffic.

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

Here are our top five articles:

Personal Update – 3/16/2018 3/16/2018 1,075
Samantha Bee from 3/14 3/15/2018 857
Conor Lamb for Congress 3/12/2018 810
Happy St. CATrick’s Day 3/17/2018 789
Tillerson Out Pompeo In 3/13/2018 747

The count represents only the people who followed an external link to that specific article.  All were from March.   I wrote all five.  I’m at a loss to understand why that personal update led the list 1ith over a thousand referrals.  A cat with a flat is of no political import.

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

Google 3,066
Care2  2,577
Stumbleupon 612
Yandex 199
Facebook 190

All five are strongly up.  Yandex is the Russian government’s version of Google and more.  Since I advised you to UNPLUG!! several times, I found it ironic that Facebook made the list.  I opted not to link back to Yandex or Facebook, because their behavior makes them Republican sites.

Here are our top  blog/news referrers:

http://infidel753.blogspot.com/
https://cannavistmom.wordpress.com/
http://oakcreekforum.blogspot.com/
http://bildungblog.blogspot.com/
http://littlewinginc.blogspot.com/
http://crooksandliars.com/
https://afeatheradrift.wordpress.com/
http://pleasecutthecrap.com/
http://www.davedubya.com/
http://welcome-to-pottersville2.blogspot.com/

We had 10 sites with 2 or more referrals, up 1 from March.  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.  I still think I need to start visiting our blog roll, which is terribly out of date.

As of midnight April 1, we had 8,100 articles and 97,106 comments.

Pat B earned a Big Mouth Award in February for the 97,000th 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 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 little over six months, before we will have a major opportunity to reclaim part of out nation from the monster that possesses all three branches of government.  If you haven’t started working toward that end, the time is past due.

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

RESIST THE REPUBLICAN REICH!!

Compared to December, January results were down in every category.  I don’t have an explanation.

Here is our latest summary:

The comparison with last January reveals that, unlike last month, we are up across the board.  However, last year was pathetic.

Here is our ClustrMap for 2018 YTD.  If it seems sparse, remember that this is only one month’s traffic.

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

Here are our top five articles:

Poll Results – 1/2/2018 1/2/2018 3,082
Bill Maher from 1/19 1/20/2018 613
Personal Update – 1/1/2018 1/1/2018 403
Filibuster Reform on Day One! 11/27/2012 380
Open Thread – 1/3/2017 1/3/2017 363

The count represents only the people who followed an external link to that specific article.  Three were from January.   I wrote than all.  I am surprised with which articles made it.

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

Google 2,032
Care2  1,880
Stumbleupon 417

Google is slight down from December.   Care2 and Stumbleupon are down.

Here are our top  blog/news referrers:

http://infidel753.blogspot.com/
http://bildungblog.blogspot.com/
http://globalglassonion.blogspot.com

We had 3 sites  with 2 or more referrals, down 3 from January.  Putting blogs’ links here increases the ratings of their sites, so this “linkey love” is our thank you for their referral support.  We need to improve this.  Perhaps I need to start visiting our blog roll, which is terribly out of date.

As of midnight February 1, we had 7,962 articles and 95,644 comments.

Nobody earned a Big Mouth Award in January.

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 last 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.

Thank you for all you do, everywhere you do it.

2018 has arrived.  It’s a busy political time, and we’re not getting the traffic that should engender.  Please spread PP links around, when you get the opportunity.

RESIST THE REPUBLICAN REICH!!