Our sixth full month since we moved from Blogger was another good one, with improvements in every category, except new visitors. Bandwidth is also down a bit, because I changed the way I embed some of the pictures.
Here are our basic stats:
Here is our most recent Clustrmap. It’s unchanged, because the site has not updated the map since August 1.
Our durations are up a bit from 240 seconds last month:
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Number of visits: 20066 – Average: 282 s |
Number of visits |
Percent |
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0s-30s |
15502 |
77.2 % |
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30s-2mn |
964 |
4.8 % |
|
2mn-5mn |
903 |
4.5 % |
|
5mn-15mn |
960 |
4.7 % |
|
15mn-30mn |
480 |
2.3 % |
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30mn-1h |
641 |
3.1 % |
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1h+ |
616 |
3 % |
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That’s a good sign.
Search engine responses are still good.
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14 different referring search engines |
Pages |
Percent |
Hits |
Percent |
|
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1094 |
54.4 % |
1946 |
62.2 % |
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Stumbleupon (Social Bookmark) |
822 |
40.8 % |
1038 |
33.2 % |
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Yahoo! |
43 |
2.1 % |
43 |
1.3 % |
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Bing |
13 |
0.6 % |
13 |
0.4 % |
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Digg (Social Bookmark) |
11 |
0.5 % |
14 |
0.4 % |
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Google (Images) |
9 |
0.4 % |
12 |
0.3 % |
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AOL |
7 |
0.3 % |
7 |
0.2 % |
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Windows Live |
3 |
0.1 % |
45 |
1.4 % |
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Unknown search engines |
2 |
0 % |
2 |
0 % |
|
Ask |
2 |
0 % |
2 |
0 % |
|
MSN Search |
1 |
0 % |
1 |
0 % |
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Dogpile |
1 |
0 % |
1 |
0 % |
|
Baidu |
1 |
0 % |
1 |
0 % |
|
Yandex |
1 |
0 % |
1 |
0 % |
Our top non-blog referrer is BuzzFlash with over 3,000 referrals.
Our top 15 referrers (blogs) are:
http://www.timsscaredstiff.com/
http://www.roseanneworld.com/blog/
http://themanwhowalksalonewalksfaster.blogspot.com/
http://infidel753.blogspot.com/
http://parsleyspics.blogspot.com/
http://carolinaparrothead.blogspot.com/
http://annette-justmylittlepieceoftheworld.blogspot.com/
http://america-weeps.blogspot.com/
http://whohijackedourcountry.blogspot.com/
http://www.worldwidehippies.com/
http://oakcreekforum.blogspot.com/
http://reconstitution.us/rcnew/
There’s some linkey-love. The best ways you can publicize Politics Plus is to use the share button at the bottom of each post to list our articles on the the sites where you belong, and to quote PP articles on your own blogs. The operative commandment here is “thou shalt steal.” We’re on the same side here. Even if you want to repost a whole article, that’s OK. Just link back, please.
Technorati increased our global Technorati Authority from 494 to 497. Our topical Technorati Authority (US Politics) is 603. So globally we’re at the top of the B-list, and topically, we’re A-list. The more recognition we get, the more effect we can have toward ending the right-wing insanity.
We have 47,131 links on other websites, up from 45,301 last month.
We have 1,345 posts and 9,909 comments, as of midnight 9/1.
If you are tired of our wacky avatars and would like 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 will be your avatar.
I’m still very happy with our progress, and thank you for it. This success belongs to all of us. Several people have told me that a main factor that brings them back is the quality of the replies to the messages.
12 Responses to “Monthly Report for August 2010”
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I Have no idea what all that is but if you say it’s good, well done..
Thanks Tim. Most of the daya coms from AWSTATS. Your HSP probably provides it.
TomCat,
Keep up the great work. Your posts should be required reading in every civics or poly-sci classroom in the country!
Wow, Jack! Thanks! Coming from you, that’s high praise.
Interesting how there is a shape split in the middle of the US — along the Mississippi River? Maybe it is a reflection of the population density.
Jerry, that comparitively blank area is called the Bible Belt.
Great work Tom! I like examining the hits maps at different blogs. I look at the hit map for mine sometimes and wonder about those small and lonely looking area in the isolated and far corners of the world.
Keep up the good work.
Thanks Beach. I watch the distribution too.
Very encouraging – and well deserved!
Just curious, but I was unable to access your website for most of the day. Was I just an outlier, or did others have a problem getting in? (If so, I suspect it’ll cut back on your stats.)
Thanks Nameless. It wasn’t you. A server failed at my HSP and the site was down over half the day. Traffic was about half the norm, but I’m not worried. 🙂
Way to go, friend. It’s because of all your hard work and excellent articles.
Thanks, Leslie. I’ll admit to the hard work and leave the quality of the articles up to you guys.