In November, Politics Plus was significantly improved in all categories.  Here is our latest summary:

In the monthly totals, a Site is any website from which someone accessed our server, a Hit is every access attempt to our server, and a File is every access attempt to our server that returned data.  The difference between Hits and Files is from access attempts that were sent in error or damaged in transit and failed attempts by hackers, spammers, phishers, and Republicans to access the back end and take control of the site.  Any questions?

Here is our latest ClusterMap:

ClusterMaps misses a lot of, because many visits can’t be easily traced to a location.  It shows only the visits from March 2 to November 2, when it was last updated. 

Here are our top five articles:

A Republican Freedom 10/24/2012 1,242
Jane Smiley: Capitalist Pigs 1/17/2012 788
How RepubliCorp Is Ducking Taxes 7/27/2014 444
Boehner Limp Again, McConnell Walks Away 7/30/2011 388
|Open Thread–11/10/2014 327

Several years are represented here.  Finally one from last month made the list.  There should be more.

Here are our top non-blog/news referrers:

Care2 2,000
Google 1,863
Stumbleupon 438
Microsoft Bing 112

All are up.

Here are our top  blog/news referrers:

http://infidel753.blogspot.com/
http://frieddogleg.blogspot.com/
http://bildungblog.blogspot.com/
http://progressiveerupts.blogspot.com/
http://www.politicususa.com/
http://www.oakcreekforum.blogspot.mx/
http://disaffectedanditfeelssogood.blogspot.com/
http://www.synapticstew.com/
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/
http://zenman1550.tumblr.com/

Normally I include fifteen here, but these ten are the only ones with two or more referrals.  But that’s up two from last month.  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 (122)
Patty (93)
Edie (87)
Joanne D (75)
Pat A (47)
jla (41)
Jerry Critter (22)
mamabear (22)
Vivian B. (20)
SoINeedAName (15)
Jim Phillips (14)
Phil (14)
Arielle (11)
Dotti Lydon (5)
Infidel753 (5)
Rixar13 (5)
Yvonne White (5)

There are over 15, because of a tie.

We have 260,345 links on other websites.

Our Technorati rating no longer exists, because Technorati no longer exists as a blog rating entity.    They have left a vacuum in blog authority rating.  If you learn of someone filling that need before I do, please let me know.  I have registered with Quantcast.  They miss a ton of raw data, but among those they can identify they will be a valuable source of information.  I learned that hard way that I have to pull the data off before a new month starts.  However I did learn that we are mostly older, well educated, poor, and politically active.

As of Midnight, December 1, we have 5,243 articles and 58,419 comments.

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Well, the elections are past.  We did not get out the vote.  That is not your fault.  Instead of running as Democrats, far too many of our candidates who had won in conservative areas, ran away from our party and lost.  Republican candidates were bold with their lies.  Our candidates whispered our truths, if they repeated them at all.  Campaign 2016 is now.  It’s time to stuff party offices with progressives and support progressives in primaries for every position from dog catcher up.  God willing, I shall be here to find you all the tools I can. 

Thank you for all that you do.  Onward!

In September, Politics Plus was excessively slow in all categories.  It was so bad, I feel quite discouraged.  Here is our latest summary:

In the monthly totals, a Site is any website from which someone accessed our server, a Hit is every access attempt to our server, and a File is every access attempt to our server that returned data.  The difference between Hits and Files is from access attempts that were sent in error or damaged in transit and failed attempts by hackers, spammers, phishers, and Republicans to access the back end and take control of the site.  Any questions?

Here is our latest Clustrmap:

ClusterMaps misses a lot of, because many visits can’t be easily traced to a location.  It shows only the visits from March 2 to September 6, when it was last updated.  Therefore the map is unchanged from last month.

Here are our top five articles:

A Republican Freedom 9/24/2013 1,095
Jane Smiley: Capitalist Pigs 1/17/2010 717
How Republicans Support Our Troops 5/31/2011 337
A Republican Staffer Tells the Truth! 9/5/2011 308
Last Week’s Republican Lunacies 6/9/2014 251

Several years are represented here, but at least one article from last month should have made the list.

Here are our top non-blog/news referrers:

Google 2,209
Care2 2,186
Stumbleupon 286
Microsoft Bing 108

All are down.

Here are our top  blog/news referrers:

http://bildungblog.blogspot.com/
http://frieddogleg.blogspot.com/
http://oakcreekforum.blogspot.com/
http://infidel753.blogspot.com/
http://disaffectedanditfeelssogood.blogspot.com/
http://theleftinme.blogspot.com/
http://alterx.blogspot.com/
http://mockpaperscissors.com/

Normally I include 15 here, but these are the only ones with two or more referrals.  Never before have there been so few.  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)
Patty (90)
Joanne D (77)
Edie (75)
Pat A (63)
SoINeedAName (37)
Jim Phillips (33)
Jerry Critter (26)
mamabear (15)
Vivian B. (11)
Phil (5)
Yvonne White (4)
Archie (2)
Avril Lomas (2)
Dotti Lydon (2)
john dasef (2)
mark (2)
Nancy Wiley (2)
Steve (2)

There are usually only 15, but it was so slow that everyone with only two comments was tied for 13th place.

We have 380,185 links on other websites.

Our Technorati rating no longer exists, because Technorati no longer exists as a blog rating entity.    They have left a vacuum in blog authority rating.  If you learn of someone filling that need before I do, please let me know.

As of Midnight, October 1, we have 51281 articles and 56,750 comments.

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Perhaps where I went wrong is that I stopped promoting the blog on other sites so I could dedicate more time to Care2.  My hope was that Care2 activists would promote the site to make up the difference.  It worked for a while, but no more.  I will have to go back to doing it myself.

The 2014 elections are only five weeks.  If they take the Senate we will have two years of even worse gridlock, because they will continue to sabotage America, hoping to pre3sent themselves as saviors in 2016.  We have the votes to stop them, if they actually vote.

Please get out the vote!

Thank you for everything that you do.

In June, Politics Plus improved in every category except Visits, and that only because the month was a day shorter.  It was out best month this year.  Here is our latest summary:

In the monthly totals, a Site is any website from which someone accessed our server, a Hit is every access attempt to our server, and a File is every access attempt to our server that returned data.  The difference between Hits and Files is from access attempts that were sent in error or damaged in transit and failed attempts by hackers, spammers, phishers, and Republicans to access the back end and take control of the site.  Any questions?

Here is our latest Clustrmap:

This is the new map, and it look’s less naked.  It misses a lot, because many visits can’t be easily traced to a location.  It shows only the visits from March 2 to June 14, when it was last updated.

Here are our top five articles:

Last Week’s Republican Lunacies 6/9/2014 5,873
Jane Smiley: Capitalist Pigs 1/17/2010 1,918
The ChickenHawk Resurfaces 6/20/2014 775
A Republican Freedom 9/24/2013 602
Redistributing the Wealth 10/29/2011 537

Several years are represented here..

Here are our top non-blog/news referrers.

Stumbleupon 6,645 (Thanks Richard!)
Care2 2,360
Google 2,319
Facebook 100
Bing 86

All were improved.

Here are our top 15 blog/news referrers.

http://crooksandliars.com/
http://xnerg.blogspot.com/
http://frieddogleg.blogspot.com/
http://bildungblog.blogspot.com/
http://infidel753.blogspot.com/
http://hamsandwich66.blogspot.com/
http://www.oakcreekforum.blogspot.com/
http://theleftinme.blogspot.com/
http://alterx.blogspot.ca/
http://zenman1550.tumblr.com/
http://nutsandolts.com/
http://rixar13.newsvine.com/
http://www.synapticstew.com/
http://whohijackedourcountry.blogspot.com/
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/

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:Those who leave their URLs in their comment headers, also get “linkey-love” here.

Lynn Squance (122)
Patty (85)
Joanne D (80)
Edie (75)
Rixar13 (67)
Jerry Critter (39)
Pat A (32)
SoINeedAName (29)
Jim Phillips (18)
Avril lomas (8)
misstexaskitty (8)
Steve (8)
Yvonne White (8)
mamabear (5)
john dasef (4)
Phil Hanson (4)

We have 290,945 links on other websites.

Our Technorati rating no longer exists, because Technorati no longer exists as a blog rating entity.  Their URL is now site to connect website publishers to advertisers.  Over the years, they came to dominate the blog authority rating field so completely that their competitors withered away.  Without competition, they stagnated, did a poor job and many just stopped paying attention.  They have left a vacuum in blog authority rating.  If you learn of someone filling that need before I do, please let me now.

As of Midnight, July 1, we have 4,951 articles and 54,222 comments.

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.

The 2014 elections are only four months away.  Republicans want to transform our nation into a totalitarian plutocracy.  They want a permanent, one-party regime in which elections exist for show only.  No lie, no trick and no crime are to heinous for them to embrace.  If nothing else, Mondays two criminal SCROTUS decisions make that fact crystal clear.  We mist get out the vote in mass!!

Our improved performance again last month was because of you.  Thank you for everything you do, here and elsewhere.

In April, Politics Plus improved slight in every category except KBytes and Hits, and significantly in Pages.  It was also a shorter month.  I particularly liked the big increase in Pages.  It means more people stayed to look at more articles.  Here is our latest summary:

In the monthly totals, a Site is any website from which someone accessed our server, a Hit is every access attempt to our server, and a File is every access attempt to our server that returned data.  The difference between Hits and Files is from access attempts that were sent in error or damaged in transit and failed attempts by hackers, spammers, phishers, and Republicans to access the back end and take control of the site.  Any questions?

Here is our latest Clustrmap:

This is the new map that is starting to look a little less naked.  It shows only the visits from March 2 to April 21.

Here are our top five articles:

Jane Smiley: Capitalist Pigs – 1/17/2010
Happy Easter! – 4/8/2014
A Republican Freedom – 9/24/2013
Rachel Maddow: Why We Did It – 3/8/2014
Rabid Republican Terrorism – 4/17/2014

I’m delighted that my Easter message made the list.

Here are our top non-blog/news referrers.

Google – 3,699
Care2 – 1,980
Stumbleupon – 511
Microsoft Bing – 104
Yahoo! – 84

All were down slightly.

Here are our top 15 blog/news referrers.

http://crooksandliars.com/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
http://rixar13.newsvine.com/
http://frieddogleg.blogspot.com/
http://infidel753.blogspot.com/
http://oakcreekforum.blogspot.com/
http://bildungblog.blogspot.com/
http://zenman1550.tumblr.com/
http://progressiveerupts.blogspot.com/
http://mockpaperscissors.com/
http://www.politicalforum.com/
http://www.synapticstew.com/
http://theleftinme.blogspot.com/
http://agreenroad.blogspot.fi
http://hamsandwich66.blogspot.com/

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:Those who leave their URLs in their comment headers, also get “linkey-love” here.

Patty (96)
Lynn Squance (75)
Joanne D (70)
Rixar13 (68)
Edie (57)
Pat A (43)
Jerry Critter (32)
misstexaskitty (32)
SoINeedAName (28)
Jim Phillips (19)
Arielle (13)
Yvonne White (10)
Edith Belcher (8)
john dasef (4)
Phil Hanson (4)

We have 368,697 links on other websites.

Our Technorati rating is 113, unchanged from last month, but still low on the B list.  These ratings yo-yo and do not depend on our traffic or our overall links, but only links on sites registered with and recognized by Technorati.  Because we have new links on two A-list sites, it should have increased.  It seems they have lost our page there and have not updated our activity in months.  I updated both my and the blog’s profiles in the hopes that it prompts them to remember we exist.  If only Care2 would register their front page of C2NN news with Technorati, we’d be A list again every month, unless Technorati remains muddled.

As of Midnight, May 1, we have 4,929 articles and 52,401 comments.

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.

The change I made last month of individually commenting only when I have something significant to add seems to bed translating into more sleep, and more energy for more research into more content.

The 2014 elections are only five months away.  Republicans want to transform our nation into a totalitarian plutocracy.  They want a permanent, one-party regime in which elections exist for show only.  No lie, no trick and no crime are to heinous for them to embrace.  We must turn out the vote to stop them.

Our improved performance again last month was because of you.  Thank you for everything you do, here and elsewhere.