Monthly Report for February 2012

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.

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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.