Oct 032016
 

Last month, all categories were down from August.  It may be because I was at less than 100%, our Sasquatch had repeated trips to the vet and our Dutch Treat was roaming the world.

Here is our latest summary:

Stats09-2016

 

Reported period

Month Sep 2016

 

 

 

 

First visit

01 Sep 2016 – 00:00

 

 

 

 

Last visit

30 Sep 2016 – 23:59

 

 

 

 

 

Unique visitors

Number of visits

Pages

Hits

Bandwidth

Viewed traffic *

8,484

 

26,657

(3.14 visits/visitor)

78,170

(2.93 Pages/Visit)

233,925

(8.77 Hits/Visit)

4.95 GB

(194.61 KB/Visit)

Not viewed traffic *

 

 

 

360,061

419,290

7.62 GB

Reported period

Month Sep 2015

 

 

 

 

First visit

01 Sep 2015 – 00:00

 

 

 

 

Last visit

30 Sep 2015 – 23:59

 

 

 

 

 

Unique visitors

Number of visits

Pages

Hits

Bandwidth

Viewed traffic *

10,087

 

29,818

(2.95 visits/visitor)

104,743

(3.51 Pages/Visit)

274,560

(9.2 Hits/Visit)

3.44 GB

(120.79 KB/Visit)

Not viewed traffic *

 

 

 

364,579

421,119

6.21 GB

Year over year, 2016 is lower in every category except bandwidth.  Here is our latest demographic data from Quantcast:

QUS09-2016

They miss a ton of raw data, but among those they can identify they are a valuable source of information.  We are still mostly older, well educated, Democrats, and politically active, but we seem to have increased our incomes. I suspect an error there.  We are  about 45% male and 55% female. 

Here is our ClustrMap for 2016 YTD.

ClustrMap09-2016

ClustrMap misses a lot of visits, because many visits can’t be easily traced to a location.  They have changed their format.  When you click the map in the left column, it shows the current month only, but they just changed their interface to allow me to pull up the YTD map.

Here are our top five articles:

Jane Smiley: Capitalist Pigs 1/17/2010 1,284
Last Week’s Insane Republican Moments 9/4/2016 267
Keith is Back! 9/15/016 249
Squatch’s Open Thread 28/06/2016 6/28/2016 248
Friday Fun – London Tube Station Revamped to Purr-mote Paws-itive Cat-titudes 9/16/2016 220

The count represents only the people who followed an external link to that specific article.  Four were from September.  Congrats to the Squatch and Nameless, both of whom had an article make the list.

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

Care2 2,538
Google 1,424
Stumbleupon 193
Facebook 102

Care2 is down by over 600,  Google  is down almost 300, Stumbleupon is down 17, Facebook barely made the list for the first time in ages and Google (Images) did not.

Here are our top  blog/news referrers:

http://infidel753.blogspot.com/
http://bildungblog.blogspot.com/
http://anaverageamericanpatriot.blogspot.com/
http://oakcreekforum.blogspot.com/
http://hamsandwich66.blogspot.com/
http://tricountysentry.com/
http://www.thefantasyfootballguys.com/blog/\
http://welcome-to-pottersville2.blogspot.com/2

We had 8 sites  with 2 or more referrals, down three from September.  Putting blogs’ links here increases the ratings of their sites, so this “linkey love” is our thank you for their support.

While optimizing the site for better performance, I discovered that our Top Commentators plugin was such a resource hog that it was increasing the time it took to load our pages by 33%, so I discontinued it.

We have 356,539 links on other websites, up considerably from September.  I expect that to decrease, because thousands of our links are over five years old, dating back to a time, when we consistently averaged over a million hits a month.  I used to have the time and energy for 7-8 articles per day. Major sites (like Care2), where I used to post links are no longer available, I’ve stopped posting links at other major sites, and I no longer visit 20 – 30 blogs per day, because I just can’t do everything I used to do.  However, as quantity has gone down, I hope quality has gone up.

As of Midnight on October 1, we have 6,858 articles and 82,835 comments.

Congrats to Mitch D.  He won a Big Mouth Award in September, for the 82,000th 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 just promoted them from Author 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.  Please do so, or if you commonly leave links and don’t know how to blank the target, please say so.

Given our expanded talent, I expect to resume our overall upward trend, although my medical problems are still interfering with my writing.  One way you can help is to share our articles, not only with your family and friends, but also, on other sites, linking back to the article here.  The more exposure we get, the better we shall do at fulfilling our stated purpose, “Overcoming Right Wing Insanity One Day at a Time!”

Thank you for all that you do, here and elsewhere.  You are why we succeed!  You are the reason America can survive!!

Now lets keep kicking Republican butt!!  We have a month left!!

Remember . . .

Vote Blue for Dawg Catcher and UP!!!
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  11 Responses to “Monthly Report for September 2016”

  1. Care2 has been having issues again.  For one thing, besides the personal messaging which just allows members to message each other, it used to be able to provide actual email addresses.  These have all been pulled, so if you still have an email address in your address book for any friend "@Care2.com" delete it, it will no longer reach the holder.  I really don't see how this would affect traffic to PP, but it's causing a lot of heartburn, so who knows.  I never had one, but Squatch did, and I suspect several others who come here did also.
     

  2. VOTE BLUE! It means EVERYONES lives!!! EVERY position needs a BLUE VOTE!

  3. I am disappointed Keith's return was only #3……..

  4. A lot of preparation and work goes into this report.

    I certainly do appreciate everything you do too!!!

    Thanks, Tom.

  5. I appreciate all your work and efforts when you surely don't feel like doing it.  I will share more than I all ready have because this blog is worthwhile to anyone who wants a decent place to live.

  6. I've had several people check into the blog after I recommended it.  When we get a chance to talk at physio (while doing exercises), we often talk US politics or world news.  I wish some would comment too but not yet.  But Tom, you run a great and informative blog.  Thanks for all your hard work over the years!

  7. Still LOVE the ClustrMap feature!

  8. Thanks for the hard work that went into converting all that information into this article, TomCat.  I'm sorry the numbers were down, but I'm sure there is absolutely nothing you have to blame yourself for. Blame the "upgrade" at Care2 and the scrapping of their e-mail service thereafter. I know some of my friends quit because of all the hassle they had to deal with of late.

    But also blame Drumpf. No I'm not kidding. This election feels like the longest one ever and certainly is the most – how can I say this nicely – unusual one. You and a small part of the (left leaning) media have been following Drumpf and the Republican party very critically from the moment Drumpf said he was entering the race, unlike most of the mainstream media who have given him all the advertisement time he wanted and more. But things have changed since he became the Republican nominee and during the last month we've been inundated with articles, news items, analyses, videos, Tweets, Facebook entries, comedy shows and what have you, all about how awful Drumpf is, what a threat he is and what a disaster for country and world he would be. Strictly speaking for myself: I'm completely saturated, I'm full, I've had it up to here (pointing between my upper lip and nose). Because, believe me, it's getting just as bad over here. Today my nothing-special Thursday night newspaper had 4 serious articles on Drumpf and probably a number of smaller items I didn't notice. I'm starting to dread opening up my paper, switching on the news or starting my browser up.

    So you're not only dealing with a lot of competition these days, TomCat, you may also have a saturated and exhausted audience through no fault of your own. So blame it on Drumpf and his ilk (and, mea culpa, a bit on me).

  9. Thanks everyone.  I agree that Care2 Issues have made things harder, and agree thjat this year is burning people outm like no previous election ever has.  You are great!!

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