Monthly Report for August 2013

 Posted by at 12:21 am  Blog News, Monthly Report, Politics
Sep 022013
 

In August Politics Plus stayed the same, gaining in three monthly categories and losing in three.

Here is our latest summary:

usage8-2013

Stats8-2013

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:

Map8-2013

Our map was archived in February, so what you see is from March 1.

Here are are top five articles:

Jane Smiley: Capitalist Pigs                              1/12/2010          748 Views

The Return of Death Panel BS                           8/12/2013          745 Views

Republicans Choked on Ryan’s Bile                      8/05/2013          559 Views

About Those Female Dollars                              8/03/2013          394 Views

An Offensive in the Republican War on Voting       8/17/2013          346 Views

It still amazes me that people are still reading things I wrote 3.5 years ago.  Please note that many people read articles without contributing to this list.  This is only those folks who came from an external site and landed on that specific page.

Here are our top Non-blog referrers

Care2             2685

StumbleUpon   1648

I have not gone back to posting on Stumbleupon yet, but I thank whoever has been putting our articles there.  I suspect it’s Richard.

Here are our top fifteen blog/news referrers for August.

http://crooksandliars.com/

http://frieddogleg.blogspot.com/

http://bildungblog.blogspot.com/

http://www.synapticstew.com/

http://whohijackedourcountry.blogspot.com/

http://theleftinme.blogspot.com/

http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/

http://alterx.blogspot.ca/

http://progressiveerupts.blogspot.com/

http://enenews.com/

http://oakcreekforum.blogspot.com/

http://hamsandwich66.blogspot.com/

http://okjimmseggrollemporium.blogspot.com/

http://asthecrackerheadcrumbles.blogspot.com/

http://upsidedownworld.org/

http://mockpaperscissors.com/

http://parsleyspics.blogspot.com/

There are two extra, because we had a tie for 15th.  Every time we link to their sites, it increases their ratings, so 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 August.  I remembered and copied them off in time.  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 (184)

Edith Belcher (108)

Patty (89)

Pat A (74)

Rixar13 (60)

SoINeedAName (51)

Jerry Critter (42)

Joanne D (15)

Arielle (13)

Jim Phillips (13)

Terrie Williams (9)

John Dasef (7)

Dotti Lydon (5)

Phil Hanson (4)

Gerry Pinion (3)

Infidel753 (3)

Lee Evans (3)

Steve (3)

There are three extra, because of a four-way tie for fifteenth.

We have 1,321,218 links on other websites, a very slight decrease.

Our Technorati rating is way up again at 437, very high on the B List, and they rate us as the 3206th most influential blog in the world.  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.  If only Care2 would register their front page news with Technorati, we’d be A list again.

As of Midnight, September 1, we have 4,389 articles and 45,428 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.  Whenever you comment under that email address here or on any WordPress blog (several others too), that image will be your avatar.

Some Republicans, those not running in highly sequestered districts, are already trying to appear more reasonable, before the 2014 elections.  They know that a large segment of the voting public recognize that Republicans are sabotaging America, see the handwriting on the wall, and fear for their political futures.  Our work will be to keep educating as many people as we can, so Republicans cannot get away with their deception, like they did in 2010.  Thank you for everything you do.  Our success is your success, and thank you for it.

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Monthly Report for July 2013

 Posted by at 2:26 am  Blog News, Monthly Report, Politics
Aug 022013
 

In June Politics Plus started picking up again, as I returned to more active blogging after my illness.  In July, we continued the upward trend, despite the lack of a viral article, and I am quite pleased.

Here is our latest summary:

usage7-2013

Stats7-2013

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:

Map7-2013

Our map was archived in February, so what you see is from March 1.

Here are are top five articles:

Jane Smiley: Capitalist Pigs           1/17/2010     1,260 views

Open Thread–6/22/2013               6/22/2013       512 views

Bill Maher–New Rules–7/19/2013   7/19/2013       413 views

Don’t Fund Evil                             7/11/2013         388 views

Racist Republicans React               7/21/2013         358 views

It amazes me that people are still reading things I wrote 3.5 years ago

Here are our top Non-blog referrers

http://www.care2.com/

http://www.stumbleupon.com/

Both have over 2,000 referrals each.  I have not gone back to posting on Stumbleupon yet, but I thank whoever has been putting our articles there.

Here are our top twelve blog/news referrers for July.

http://infidel753.blogspot.com/

http://illuminate.newsvine.com/

http://crooksandliars.com/

http://frieddogleg.blogspot.com/

http://www.synapticstew.com/

http://bildungblog.blogspot.com/

http://zenman1550.tumblr.com/

http://alterx.blogspot.ca/

http://oakcreekforum.blogspot.com/

http://parsleyspics.blogspot.com/

http://www.mockpaperscissors.com/

http://progressiveerupts.blogspot.com/

Every time we link to their sites, it increases their ratings, so 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 July.  I remembered and copied them off in time.  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 (138)

Patty (96)

Edith Belcher (87)

Rixar13 (57)

SoINeedAName (46)

Jerry Critter (43)

Pat A (34)

Jim Phillips (31)

Joanne D (18)

Angelica (12)

John Dasef (7)

Arielle (6)

William Lemeshevsky (6)

Yvonne White (5)

Lee Evans (4)

mamabear (4)

Marva (4)

There are two extra, because of a three-way tie for fifteenth.

We have 1,365,825 links on other websites, a slight increase.

Our Technorati rating is way down again at 119, very low on the B List, and they rate us as the 9049th most influential blog in the world.  I told you that last months high ratings would not last.  None of our 1 million plus links are on websites that have registered with Technorati.  If Care2 registered their front page with Technorati, we would be on the A list again.

As of Midnight, August 1, we have 4,319 articles and 44,190 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.  Whenever you comment under that email address here or on any WordPress blog (several others too), that image will be your avatar.

I suspect that some Republicans, those not running in highly sequestered districts, are going try to appear more reasonable, before the 2014 elections.  They know that a large segment of the voting public recognize that Republicans are sabotaging America, see the handwriting on the wall, and fear for their political futures.  Our work will be to educate as many people as we can, so they cannot get away with their deception, like they did in 2010.  Thank you for everything you do.  Our success is your success, and thank you for it.

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Monthly Report for June 2013

 Posted by at 12:52 am  Monthly Report, Politics
Jul 092013
 

Better late than never.  For the last several months Politics Plus has been very slow, largely due to my illness, hospitalization and heat dysfunction.  I am still not all the way back, and have been sharing links at only the most productive site of the several sites I used to.

Here is our latest summary:

usage1-13

Summary6-13

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.

Here is our latest Clustrmap:

map6-13

Our map was archived in February, so what you see is from March 1.

Here are our top 10 blog/news referrers for June.

http://crooksandliars.com/

http://frieddogleg.blogspot.com/

http://www.teamliquid.net/

http://frieddogleg.blogspot.com/

http://www.synapticstew.com/

http://bildungblog.blogspot.com/

http://infidel753.blogspot.com/

http://theleftinme.blogspot.com/

http://www.rob-servations.com/

http://buckdogpolitics.blogspot.ca/

Every time we link to their sites, it increases their ratings, so 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 February.  I remembered and copied them off in time.  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 (126)

Patty (84)

Jerry Critter (57)

SoINeedAName (47)

Edith Belcher (46)

Angelica (41)

Pat A (39)

Rixar13 (21)

Lee Evans (17)

Jim Phillips (16)

Lisa G. (5)

William Lemeshevsky (5)

Dotti Lydon (4)

John Dasef (4)

Marva (4)

We have 1,264,636 links on other websites.

Our Technorati rating is 423, very high on the B List, and they rate us as the 3287th most influential blog in the world.  That won’t last.  One of our articles in June received a lot of national attention.

As of Midnight, July 1, we have 4,246 articles and 43,078 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.  Whenever you comment under that email address here or on any WordPress blog (several others too), that image will be your avatar.

Well, we are hanging in there.  As long as this nation is infested with Republican InsaniTEA, our work remains.  Thank you for everything you do.  Our success is your success, and thank you for it.

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Open Thread–6/2/2013

 Posted by at 3:03 am  Monthly Report, Open Thread, Personal, Politics
Jun 022013
 

Yesterday I got some sleep, so I have another article for you today.  I had to set back my quit date to the 14th, because the plan has me taking Chantix for a full week before quitting, and I still have not received my prescription.  Tomorrow will definitely be a short writing day, if any at all, because I will be making my first major excursion, since leaving the hospital: my quarterly foot surgery at my podiatrist’s office to remove the recurrent growth.  For the next day, we’ll have to wait and see how well I handle this trip.  I plan no Monthly Report for May, but our top commentators were:

  • Lynn Squance (76)
  • Patty (53)
  • Pat A (35)
  • Edith Belcher (26)
  • SoINeedAName (23)
  • Lisa G. (20)
  • Rixar13 (16)
  • Lee Evans (12)
  • Angelica (11)
  • William Lemeshevsky (6)
  • jl a (3)
  • John Dasef (3)

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 4:29 (average 4:54).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From Politicus USA: During the George W. Bush presidency, there was a lot of talk about patriotism any time a question arose about the legitimacy of the Iraq war, and the implication was that questioning the Bush administration was unpatriotic because a real patriot is someone who feels strong support for his or her country regardless the leader’s deceit in taking a nation to war based on lies. Early in President Obama’s first term, the Koch brothers, neo-conservatives, and Republican Party took advantage of racial animus for the African American President and funded a so-called “grassroots” movement of alleged patriots who, within months of the President’s swearing in, complained they were overtaxed and suffering tyranny. The teabaggers, as they called themselves, immediately claimed they were patriots and any opposition to their agenda was tantamount to Marxism or Nazism and they demanded to take “their country” back to when a white man inhabited the Oval Office. However, there is nothing remotely resembling patriotism in teabagger ranks, and as time went on a pattern developed that linked teabaggers to the Taliban and it did not take long for them to threaten violence to impose their will.

The concept of threatening, calling for, and inciting violence against the government has never been part of being a patriotic American, but there has been no dearth of violent threats from conservative malcontents that make up the majority of teabaggers. Recently, another instance of a teabagger calling for gun violence was reported over a Republican senator’s vote for immigration reform, and it is becoming an all too common occurrence unique to the so-called patriot group that throughout its existence threatened violence and armed insurrection to control the direction of the government. Threatening to use force to impose their will is not limited to disaffected racists, and has been embraced by teabag leaders since the anti-American group came into existence…

How many times do I have to say it? Thou shalt not commit TEAbuggery!!!

From NY Times: …Whether directly from their wallets or through insurance policies, Americans pay more for almost every interaction with the medical system. They are typically prescribed more expensive procedures and tests than people in other countries, no matter if those nations operate a private or national health system. A list of drug, scan and procedure prices compiled by the International Federation of Health Plans, a global network of health insurers, found that the United States came out the most costly in all 21 categories — and often by a huge margin.

Americans pay, on average, about four times as much for a hip replacement as patients in Switzerland or France and more than three times as much for a Caesarean section as those in New Zealand or Britain. The average price for Nasonex, a common nasal spray for allergies, is $108 in the United States compared with $21 in Spain. The costs of hospital stays here are about triple those in other developed countries, even though they last no longer, according to a recent report by the Commonwealth Fund, a foundation that studies health policy.

While the United States medical system is famous for drugs costing hundreds of thousands of dollars and heroic care at the end of life, it turns out that a more significant factor in the nation’s $2.7 trillion annual health care bill may not be the use of extraordinary services, but the high price tag of ordinary ones. “The U.S. just pays providers of health care much more for everything,” said Tom Sackville, chief executive of the health plans federation and a former British health minister…

As always, the problem rests not, as Republicans deceitfully claim, with the need of those whom they call "takers", but with the greed of the 1%.

From Salon.com: When Anthony Weiner resigned from his post as congressman due to an embarrassing Twitpic scandal in 2011, the media expected that any serious political career was over. But Weiner has recently returned to politics, entering the Democratic primary as a mayoral candidate; not only is the media taking his bid seriously — but it’s possible that thanks to deep pockets and a vibrant persona he could win it.

 

Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

The only difference between Weiner and Republicans, who still live after scandal, such as ‘Trailwalker’ Sanford (R-NC) and "Diaper Dave" Vitter (R-LA) is that Weiner never claimed to be a paragon of "family values" virtue, ordained by Supply-side Jesus (not the real one) to practice pseudo-Christian judgment and condemnation of others. In any case, with Batshit Bachmann leaving, a Weiner in the mayor’s office would give the comedy profession a much needed boost.

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Monthly Report for March 2013

 Posted by at 2:24 am  Blog News, Monthly Report, Politics
Apr 022013
 

Because the blog has been so slow due to my ongoing illnesses, I’m putting up only our basic chats and map for March.

Here is our latest summary:

usage3-2013

summary3-2013

Here is our latest map.

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Remember, that the map was reset at the end of February, so this map represents only one slow month.

On to better times.

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Monthly Report for February 2013

 Posted by at 6:11 am  Blog News, Monthly Report, Politics
Mar 022013
 

For the last three months Politics Plus has been very slow, so this is a good time to discuss the transition we have experienced in the last year.  We used to be an A list blog, one of the most influential political blogs in the world.  However three events, on top of each other, killed most of our exposure in one fell swoop.  First the BuzzFlash contribution site went dead.  Since they picked up most of our articles on their front page, and were recognized by Technorati, they were most responsible for putting us on the A list.  Second, Stumbleupon changed their format, and the new format is so bad that people abandoned it in droves.  Third Reddit changed their requirement for r/politics, so that instead of posting one outside article for every article from our blog, I now have to post ten.  We used to get many thousands of visitors from Stumbleupon and Reddit every month.  No more.  As a result we have fallen onto the B list, and barring unforeseen circumstances, I see no return to our glory days.  Nevertheless, I am content with our new role as a key advisor to a dedicated group of activists.  Because of that new roll, I’m changing a few things about our Monthly Reports, making them easier to produce.

Here is our latest summary:

usage1-13

Summary1-13

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.

Here is our latest Clustrmap:

Map1-13

Our map is about to be archived for the year, co we’ll be losing all our dots this month.

I will probably return to listing non-blog referrers like Care2 next month, when there are actually some numbers to report.

Here are our top 15 blog/news referrers

http://www.synapticstew.com/

http://www.lanecrothers.net/politicalprof/

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

http://frieddogleg.blogspot.com/

http://alterx.blogspot.ca/

http://jackjodell53.wordpress.com/

http://infidel753.blogspot.com/

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

http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/

http://www.mockpaperscissors.com/

http://whohijackedourcountry.blogspot.com/

http://parsleyspics.blogspot.com/

http://bildungblog.blogspot.com/

http://swashzone.blogspot.com/

http://crooksandliars.com/

http://reconstitution.us/rcnew/

http://hamsandwich66.blogspot.com/

http://buckdogpolitics.blogspot.com/

http://www.davedubya.com/

http://disaffectedanditfeelssogood.blogspot.com/

http://welcome-to-pottersville2.blogspot.com/

http://www.democraticunderground.com/

http://okjimmseggrollemporium.blogspot.com/

There are more than 15, because it was so slow that it only took a couple referrals to make the list.  Every time we link to their sites, it increases their ratings, so 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 February.  I remembered and copied them off in time.  That’s three months in a row!  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 (147)

Patty (84)

Jerry Critter (47)

SoINeedAName (44)

Angelica (43)

Pat A (35)

Edith Belcher (28)

Rixar13 (27)

Phyllis (17)

Lee Evans (14)

Jim Phillips (13)

Tamara Hayes (7)

Gypsy (6)

Michael Scott (6)

Yvonne White (5)

We have 1,029,478 links on other websites.

Our Technorati rating is 119, B List, and they rate us as the 11,391st most influential blog in the world.

As of Midnight, March 1, we have 4,044 articles and 40,343 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.  Whenever you comment under that email address here or on any WordPress blog (several others too), that image will be your avatar.

Well, here we are.  As long as this nation is infested with Republican InsaniTEA, our work remains.  Thank you for everything you do.  Whatever success we may enjoy is your success.

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Monthly Report for November 2012

 Posted by at 9:00 am  Blog News, Monthly Report, Politics
Dec 022012
 

In November, traffic here at Politics Plus was slightly down in all major categories, except hits, which was slightly up.  Page Views followed the same pattern from last month, confirming the change in the way AW Stats was allocating them.  I anticipated this drop in traffic because of post election burnout, as I said last month, so I’m quite pleased with where we are.

Reported period

Month Nov 2012

 

 

 

 

First visit

01 Nov 2012 – 00:00

 

 

 

 

Last visit

30 Nov 2012 – 23:56

 

 

 

 

 

Unique visitors

Number of visits

Pages

Hits

Bandwidth

Viewed traffic *

15,237

39,075

(2.56 visits/visitor)

193,656

(4.95 Pages/Visit)

589,587

(15.08 Hits/Visit)

12.05 GB

(323.48 KB/Visit)

Not viewed traffic *

 

 

351,691

410,898

5.95 GB

The first time someone comes to the site during a month, they are counted as a Unique Visitor and a Visit.  Subsequent visits from that person are counted as visits only.  Every time someone visits or changes pages that counts as a Page View.  Any time a file on the server is accessed, that counts as a Hit.  Bandwidth is how much data is transferred from the site.  One byte is enough to store one letter of text.  12.05 GB is a little more than 12,050,000,000 bytes. 

Not viewed traffic is recorded when people read our blog without coming here, using RSS Readers, such as Feed Demon, and Aggregation sites, such as Google Reader and MyWeb.  Combining the two, we still landed eyeballs on over half a million pages last month.

Here are our 2011 stats.

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

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Here is our most recent ClustrMap, last updated on December 1.  Note that our map reset on February 28.  The largest circles represent over 1,000 visits. The tiniest represent one to ten.  I feel thrilled that folks come here from all around the world.

Map112012

Durations measure how much time people spend here on each visit.  The following chart breaks it down by ranges.  Our average durations were up an average of 36 seconds per visitor.

Number of visits: 39,075 – Average: 294 s

Number of visits

Percent

0s-30s

31,125

79.6 %

30s-2mn

2,067

5.2 %

2mn-5mn

968

2.4 %

5mn-15mn

1,215

3.1 %

15mn-30mn

828

2.1 %

30mn-1h

1,677

4.2 %

1h+

1,195

3 %

That means that the people who were here paid more attention.  It’s a great result!

Here are our top five articles for November.

Jane Smiley: Capitalist Pigs                         1/17/2010   1,251 Views

Why Fox Is Banned in Canada                     3/07/2011      794 Views

Romney Sued Over Milking Auto Bailout      11/02/2012     666 Views

Election Projection–11/4/2012                    11/04/2012     632 Views

Why Robert Murray Fired Workers               11/10/2012     591 Views

None or our articles became viral last month, sadly, but it is interesting to note that we are still getting traffic on items several years old.

Anytime someone comes here by clicking a link on another site, that is a referral.  We divide referrals between search engines, other major sites that are not search engines (Care2, Reddit, etc.), and blogs or news sites.

Search engine referrals were down.

18 different referring search engines

Pages

Percent

Hits

Percent

Google

8500

69.3 %

16,169

76.6 %

Stumbleupon (Social Bookmark)

2505

20.4 %

2,637

12.4 %

Microsoft Bing

498

4 %

882

4.1 %

Yahoo!

271

2.2 %

595

2.8 %

Microsoft MSN Search

225

1.8 %

225

1 %

Google (Images)

116

0.9 %

274

1.2 %

Yandex

41

0.3 %

106

0.5 %

AOL

40

0.3 %

43

0.2 %

Unknown search engines

37

0.3 %

65

0.3 %

Ask

8

0 %

8

0 %

Earth Link

4

0 %

4

0 %

Dogpile

4

0 %

7

0 %

Baidu

4

0 %

5

0 %

Microsoft Windows Live

3

0 %

17

0 %

MetaCrawler (Metamoteur)

1

0 %

1

0 %

WebCrawler

1

0 %

1

0 %

MyWebSearch

1

0 %

1

0 %

Go.com

 

 

65

0.3 %

Our top five non-blog referral sites are:

http://www.care2.com/       3,189

http://jabberwonk.com/      1,154

http://www.tumblr.com/        532

http://www.reddit.com/         375

http://current.com/               277

Reddit was way down, but Care2, Jabberwonk, Tumblr, and Current, which made the list for the first time, were up.

Our top 15 blog/news referral sites are:

http://www.synapticstew.com/

http://www.roseanneworld.com/

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

http://theleftinme.blogspot.com/

http://frieddogleg.blogspot.com/

http://infidel753.blogspot.com/

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

http://reconstitution.us/rcnew/

http://www.buckdogpolitics.blogspot.ca/

http://progressiveerupts.blogspot.com/

http://www.sodahead.com/

http://bildungblog.blogspot.com/

http://www.politicalhotwire.com/

http://oakcreekforum.blogspot.com/

http://bohemiansouth.net/

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 November.  I remembered and copied them off in time.  That’s three months in a row!  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 (189)

Patty (164)

SoINeedAName (53)

Phyllis (50)

Jerry Critter (43)

Rixar13 (30)

Edith Belcher (26)

Lee Evans (25)

Angelica (24)

GYPSY (23)

mamabear (18)

Pat A (16)

Pat Armstrong (14)

Yvonne White (13)

Lisa Gunther (11)

We have 915,272 links on other websites, an increase of over 250,000.

Our Technorati.rating is up to 140, a slight increase, but still low on the B list.  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 only Care2 were to register with Technorati, we’d be in fat city, because any article that makes it to Care2’s front page should count.  One of Care2’s tech support people contacted me about something else, and I mentioned this to him.  He said he’s pass it on, but I’ve heard nothing more.

We have 3,894 articles and 38,025 comments, as of midnight December 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.  Thank you all for all you do, here and elsewhere, to support progressive solutions.  Together we are make are difference, and I hope I can keep my own participation up sufficiently to be worthy of you.

We are still  well 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. 

I could not be more pleased with the role we played in the last election.  Of course we were not responsible for Obama’s victory or our gains in both the Santé and the House.  Nevertheless, we did out part, and along with thousands of other activists like us, we helped change the direction of this country.

Nevertheless, our nation still faces a severe infestation of InsaniTEA.  Republicans are still plotting how to place America in thrall to a permanent regime of Republican one party rule, in which elections no longer matter.  Our work has just begun.

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Monthly Report for October 2012

 Posted by at 8:42 am  Blog News, Monthly Report
Nov 022012
 

In October, traffic here at Politics Plus was up in all major categories, except Page Views, which was way down.  This has me completely baffled, because with such a major decrease in Page Views, there would be no way to maintain the Hits and Bandwidth, let alone increase them.  About a year ago, there was an inexplicable increase in Page Views that lasted for almost a years.  I suspect that AW Stats changed how they count views back then and just changed it back.

Reported period

Month Oct 2012

 

 

 

 

First visit

01 Oct 2012 – 00:00

 

 

 

 

Last visit

31 Oct 2012 – 23:59

 

 

 

 

 

Unique visitors

Number of visits

Pages

Hits

Bandwidth

Viewed traffic *

16,551

39,818

(2.4 visits/visitor)

192,017

(4.82 Pages/Visit)

787,418

(19.77 Hits/Visit)

19.91 GB

(524.29 KB/Visit)

Not viewed traffic *

 

 

314,063

382,463

9.44 GB

The first time someone comes to the site during a month, they are counted as a Unique Visitor and a Visit.  Subsequent visits are counted as visits only.  Every time someone visits or changes pages that counts as a Page View.  Any time a file on the server is accessed, that counts as a Hit.  Bandwidth is how much data is transferred from the site.  One byte is enough to store one letter of text.  19.91 GB is a little more than 19,910,000,000 bytes. 

Not viewed traffic is recorded when people read our blog without coming here, using RSS Readers, such as Feed Demon, and Aggregation sites, such as Google Reader and MyWeb.  Combining the two, we landed eyeballs on over half a million pages last month.

Here are our 2011 stats.

Stats12-2011

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

stats10-2012

Here is our most recent ClustrMap, last updated on October 1.  Note that our map reset on February 28.  The largest circles represent over 1,000 visits. The tiniest represent one to ten.  I feel thrilled that folks come here from all around the world.

Map10-2012

Durations measure how much time people spend here on each visit.  The following chart breaks it down by ranges.  Our average durations were down an average of 5 seconds.

umber of visits: 39,818 – Average: 258 s

Number of visits

Percent

0s-30s

32,947

82.7 %

30s-2mn

1,671

4.1 %

2mn-5mn

928

2.3 %

5mn-15mn

983

2.4 %

15mn-30mn

686

1.7 %

30mn-1h

1,543

3.8 %

1h+

1,060

2.6 %

That’s not bad at all, because we had more visitors.

Here are our top five articles for October.

A Reason to Support Elizabeth Warren          10/03/2012     1,791 views

Jane Smiley: Capitalist Pigs                            1/17/2010          938 views

Bainport Is Growing                                     10/13/2012          900 views

Open Thread–5/12/2012                                5/12/2012          867 views

Why Fox Is Banned in Canada                        3/07/2011          776 views

None or our articles became viral last month, sadly, but it is interesting to note that we are still getting traffic on items several years old.

Anytime someone comes here by clicking a link on another site, that is a referral.  We divide referrals between search engines, other major sites that are not search engines (Care2, Reddit, etc.), and blogs or news sites.

Search engine referrals were up.

20 different referring search engines

Pages

Percent

Hits

Percent

Google

9652

68.3 %

18,674

76.3 %

Stumbleupon (Social Bookmark)

2797

19.8 %

2,950

12 %

Microsoft Bing

923

6.5 %

1,389

5.6 %

Yahoo!

465

3.2 %

728

2.9 %

Google (Images)

103

0.7 %

337

1.3 %

Unknown search engines

60

0.4 %

71

0.2 %

AOL

33

0.2 %

38

0.1 %

Yandex

25

0.1 %

65

0.2 %

Microsoft MSN Search

18

0.1 %

18

0 %

Ask

14

0 %

14

0 %

Microsoft Windows Live

8

0 %

52

0.2 %

Dogpile

7

0 %

11

0 %

MyWebSearch

7

0 %

7

0 %

WebCrawler

2

0 %

2

0 %

InfoSpace

2

0 %

2

0 %

Searchalot

1

0 %

1

0 %

Earth Link

1

0 %

1

0 %

Digg (Social Bookmark)

1

0 %

1

0 %

Lycos

1

0 %

1

0 %

Go.com

 

 

111

0.4 %

Our top five non-blog referral sites are:

http://www.care2.com/               2,098

http://www.reddit.com/               1,071

http://jabberwonk.com/                  917

http://www.tumblr.com/                 426

https://www.facebook.com/             399

All are up, except Tumblr.

Our top 15 blog/news referral sites are:

http://crooksandliars.com/

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

http://www.roseanneworld.com/

http://www.rumormillnews.com/

http://www.synapticstew.com/

http://amelio.newsvine.com/

http://frieddogleg.blogspot.com/

http://oakcreekforum.blogspot.com/

http://theleftinme.blogspot.com/

http://parsleyspics.blogspot.com/

http://www.infidel753.blogspot.com/

http://www.independentaustralia.net/

http://progressiveerupts.blogspot.com/

http://republic-of-gilead.blogspot.co.uk/

http://www.mockpaperscissors.com/

http://disaffectedanditfeelssogood.blogspot.com/

http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/

http://okjimmseggrollemporium.blogspot.com/

http://nutsandolts.com/

There was a five 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 September.  I remembered and copied them off in time.  That’s two months in a row!  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 (185)

Patty (177)

SoINeedAName (62)

Phyllis (53)

Jerry Critter (51)

Rixar13 (49)

Edith Belcher (39)

Angelica (22)

Gypsy (12)

Steve (8)

Lisa Gunther (7)

Marva (7)

Lee Evans (6)

mamabear (6)

tasunka maza (5)

Yvonne White (5)

We have 672,146 links on other websites, an increase of over 100,000.

Our Technorati.rating is up to 137, still low on the B list.  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 only Care2 were to register with Technorati, we’d be in fat city, because any article that makes it to Care2’s front page should count.  In fact, would someone who knows the people who run Care2 ask if they have any intent to register with Technorati, and if not, encourage them to do so?

We have 3,805 articles and 36,731 comments, as of midnight November 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.  Thank you all for all you do, here and elsewhere, to support progressive solutions.  Together we are make are difference, and I hope I can keep my own participation up sufficiently to be worthy of you.

We are still  well 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 4 days from an election upon which America’s future depends.  We still have lots of work to do.

I hope that the additional explanation had made the numbers easier to understand.  Please let me know what I need to improve.

Overall, I’m very pleased with last month’s performance.  I would not be  at all surprised to see a significant decrease in traffic for the next few months, because so many are burned out from the election effort.

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